Thank you to
Brooke and Sankari for picking my sweet lollipop card for the “Some Like It Hot” Audrey! That’s exciting in itself, but it’s a bonus when it means you get to be the guest designer the next week. And how fun that it is High School Musical! With two young daughters in the house this has been a favourite around here, although I didn’t think I would like it. I was pleased to find that it was better than most of the Disney tv movies I have seen, so I didn’t mind revisiting it for the challenge. There were a lot of ways I could go with my card, but I felt that I had to have a lot of red and white, and I wanted my card to be a bit of a celebration of the individual.
I went with an age birthday card, using chipboard and punches for some stars and working in the number with a big glittery 7. In talking about it with Tiarna she had mentioned basketballs, so I decided to make orange a feature colour and threw in some blue for contrast. The 7 is from the Sticky Cuts Letters pack - this was the first time I had used them (finally!) and I think it is great, very easy to use. I stuck the 7 to some Whisper White and then trimmed around it before covering it in the orange Supernova glitter. To balance all the orange on the right I wanted to use some of the glitter on the left, so the two small brads have been covered with a mini glue dot and dipped in the glitter, while the large brad (from the Styled Silver hodgepodge) has had a scrap of the Sticky Cuts trimmed to size and stuck on top before dipping in the glitter. The white gel pen dots on the punched stars were inspired by the title on the disc cover, and it also carries over the look of the DSP on the chipboard.
Hope you all have fun with this challenge, I can’t wait to check out your entries!
All supplies by Stampin' Up!Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, Bashful BlueStamp Set: Curvy VersesInk: Real Red; Bashful Blue for spongingAccessories: Large star punch, star punch, Wide Oval punch, sponge dauber, Bashful Blue marker (used on edge of chipboard and inside large punched star), white gel pen, Supernova glitter, Styled Silver Hodgepodge, Sticky Cuts Letters, Real Red 1/2" Striped grosgrain ribbon, Summer Picnic DSP (retired), On Board Accents (retired), dimensionalsShow watched while creating: High School Musical
Baja Breeze is easily my favourite In Color this year, so it's a wonder it took me this long to include it in one of the Colour Challenges over at the Elite Challenges blog. Today being a new month there are a bunch of new challenges up and I have just uploaded my card for June's Colour Challenge. Above you can see a little snippet of it. To make the sentiment I used my Basic Gray marker to ink up alternate lines (ie "guess" and "loves", then "whoo" and "you!") before stamping so I had plenty of room between lines to cut them out.
It's probably obvious to long-time readers that Bundle of Joy was my favourite baby set. Now that it has retired I don't have an actual baby stamp, but I made sure one of the first hostess sets I got was Punches Three so I could have this "Bundle of Joy" stamp. This card is for my new nephew Karl, using a colour combination I've been dying to use since I physically laid eyes on Pacific Point. Along with the decent splash of purple on the card I sent a couple of Target royal purple suits up for him - he's my nephew he's going to have purple! The chipboard letters have been coloured using a technique picked up from convention, inking them with a dauber and reinker. I actually can't remember if the technique was demonstrated with wetting the letters first but that's what I did by brushing my Aquapainter over them first. The layout was based on WSC81.
Last night I decided to just play, and so I pulled out something I'd been wanting to do for ages: cover one of the On Board So Tweet chipboard owls with DSP. I'm pleased to say that he pretty much came out as expected (though I was thrilled the Haiku pattern was such a perfect size for the eyes), but then I had to think what to do with him! I decided to put him on a card, and though the latest Weekend Sketch Challenge would suit... if you want to be particular the oval is the circle from the sketch and the owl is the large rectangle behind that. I was going to add a large rectangle of DSP behind the owl but everything I tried distracted from him, so he's just out on a (ribbon) limb with no treetrunk in sight!