A Clean and Simple Card

I have never really made a true clean and simple card before.

In my endeavours to try to stamp more often I am allowing myself to do what ever I feel like on my cards. I am a Stampin Up demo, but my customer base is low and I think I am turning into a hobby demo. So I am just going to enjoy the journey as they say.

I said all of that because I used Copic Markers to color my stamped image. Everything else is Stampin Up. I tried to copy the colors used in the DSP Paisley Petals with the colors I have in the markers. I do not own hundreds like some. But I do enjoy coloring tight spots with them like the stamped image on this card. I tried to moddle the inside of the big leaves like the paper but it did not quite come out like I had hoped but it still looks pretty good in my opinion.

The only other thing I did was to add the DSP on the bottom and punch it with the Scallop Border punch and I added some stitching with my white Signo Pen after I got it to work another neglected item that was found. Oh and I rounded the top of the card, again, something I seldom do but looks good here.



Stamps: Paisley Petals, Field Flowers

Paper: Whisper White, DSP Paisley Petals

Ink: Black, Copic Markers

Accessories: Scallop Border Punch, Signo Pen, Corner Rounded Punch

Field Flowers Take Three

It is the end of the week, I just can not believe how fast time is zooming  by. Yesterday my family accompanied me to the city for the weekly grocery shopping for my husbands restaurant. My grandson is getting bigger and we did not use the car seat, boy what a difference that made in comfort in the back seat.

They decided to finally get a new computer. They have needed one for a long time. It is hard to decided which one to get. They gave me a bit of a hard time because I am always purchasing electronic gadgets and do not seem to have a hard time to make up my mind. What they don't know is the hours I spent on line doing what they did in person. Teehee So when I walk into the store I know what I am getting without all the decision making to do.

Well here is my card for today, although I am not thrilled with the colors it still is a great card. They other day somewhere I saw a centre step type card but it was done on the 5 1/2 side rather than the 4 1/4 side. I could not find any directions for cutting anywhere so I just improvised. I cut my slits from 1 to 5 1/2 on each side and then scored at 1, 2, 4 1/2 and 5 1/4. That worked for me but I don't know if that is how anyone else would  do it.

I could not decided on what DSP to put on the rest of the card so I did not put any. Instead I chose to emboss a small design across the bottom and add some ribbon. I may change the color of the ribbon to yellow before I sell this card and see if it makes it pop a bit more. In real life it looks pretty nice but a little dull here, must be the photographer LOL.

See you next week, have a great weekend.

Stamps: Field Flowers, French Foliage, Elizabeth

Paper:  Early Expresso, Whisper White

Ink: Early Expresso, Old Olive, Summer Sun

Accessories: Soft Suede Ribbon

Field Flowers Take Two

Well the weekend is over, I am sure all the business people including my husband had a great weekend but are glad it is over. Me I just stayed in my stamp room and played between laundry and other household things.

I had made some practice flowers so I decided to put them to use on this card.

I actually cut into my new Well Worn DSP can't believe I did that. TeeHee I hate cutting new paper that I love I am just as bad with my fabric.

Any hoo, here is what I did. I took a piece of whisper white and stamped the French Script with Crumb Cake. Then with Soft Suede I stamped the leaves and branches, keeping in mind where my flowers were going to be, not like last card. Then I cut out around the leaves so that my flower would hang outside of the first layer. I applied the flowers stamped some of those blotches and my sentiment. I layered that piece onto Cajun Craze then Crumb Cake.

I cut a 2" strip from the Well Worn DSP add two strips of Cajun Craze that was punched out with the Scallop Border Punch. All of the layers were added to a piece of Soft Suede and my card was done.

Stamps: Field Flowers, French Foliage, Kind and Caring Thoughts (ssentiment)

Paper: Cajun Craze, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Well Worn DSP

Ink: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Concord Crush, Wisteria, Cajun Craze, Peach Parfait

Accessories: Scallop Border Punch

Field Flowers Take One

Who knew, that such a beautiful stamp set could be such a challenge. Now don't get worried that it is hard to use, not at all just a little bit of a learning curve. LOL

I have a new type of stamp club starting next month and the way this one is going to work is like this. They will pick a stamp set for all of them to order. I will come up with a few designs, color combinations and techniques for the set. They will pick what accessories they want to make up their commitment dollars but everything will be there when they come for the class to take home. This is the first stamp set they chose. Cool Huh.

Well I was using the front page of the catalogue for my inspiration, and but was not completely liking what I was coming up with. However, after a few tries with different colors I settled on this one. It also helps when you go in your scrap bag and find a card all ready embossed etc.

It took several attempts to get the centre part to where I like it so I am going to share how I did that in the end. I used Sarah Sand for the lighter color and Early Espresso for the darker image. I also found from trial and error to stamp the Sarah Sand first then the Early Espresso for best results. At first I was trying Crumb Cake and it just did not look right for me but I was happy with the Sarah Sand and Early Espresso.

Another thing to keep in mind is where you stamp your flower. I just stamped my flower, then when I went to stamp my green stem part it was way out of line so I just improvised for this card but will stamp my greenery first next time so that I get it perfect. See what I mean about trial and error. LOL

I used the Elizabeth stamp as they did on the Catalogue stamped with Night of Navy, I also happened to have the birthday sentiment already sitting on my desk so I just used it. I also used the script from French Foliage and the splotches as I just love that look. You could also use the French Script background stamp and it would also look awesome. In my quest to use up all my stuff, I found this cute dragon fly and added it as afterthought. However, it is non Stampin Up.





Stamps: Field Flowers, French Foliage, Elizabeth

Paper: Sarah Sand, Night of Navy, White

Ink: Sarah Sand, Night of Navy, Lucky Limeade, Bashful Blue, Early Espresso

Accessories: Sponge Dauber, Stampmajig, Non SU Brad