Refuge and Strength

Hello again, this is the fourth and final card for the Strength and Refuse stamp set sampler I was making.

I wanted to try and make a frame for the sentiment but I could not just do it with an exacto knife. I did not either have a sharp enough blade or not enough strength to cut the inside square out, so I cheated and used the Nestabilities.

I used a card base of Creamy Caramel 5 ½ x 4 ¼”. I layered a 5 1/8 x 4 1/8 piece of DSP from Bella Birds sponged with Creamy Caramel.

I tied two pieces of ribbon both from the ribbon bundle in the Sellabration Mini Catalogue. I then took a piece of string and tied these two ribbons together in the centre and place one of the Stampin Up Designer Brads in the middle of the ribbons.

I placed the sentiment layer on the card and the card was done. Here are all the cards together.Thanks for looking and your kind comments

Refuge and Strength

Hello, hope everyone is having a great day. Every day we wake up is a great day. I remember a long time ago when I was in learning about being in business for myself about each new day being an opportunity. Meaning an opportunity to do whatever we wanted to accomplish.
Well my accomplishment for today is this beautiful card.

The card base is Chocolate Chip. I added a piece of DSP from the Sellabration paper pack and a piece from the Close To Cocoa DSP paper pack. I sponged all the edges with Chocolate Chip. Around the middle of these two papers I put the 1” SU stitched ribbon.

I stamped the cross in second generation, how’s that for terminology, in Close to Cocoa then stamped the sentiment over top of the cross. Then I traced an oval around the whole stamped image and tried to stamp the little branches around it. Didn’t do too badly, just a couple are kind of going the wrong direction but all in all I felt it was ok. Then I sponged the edge with Chocolate Chip. I layered this piece onto a scalloped oval of Always Artichoke.

I felt the card still needed something so I added the Little Leaves in Always Artichoke and Sarah Sand. Personally I think smaller leaves would have looked nicer but I am trying to use as much Stampin Up products as possible.

There one more card for this sampler set I will show it tomorrow. Thanks for looking in on me and I enjoy reading your comments if you have any for me. I don’t mind any ideas for improvement.

Strength and Refuge

Hello again, this card uses paper from Parisian Breeze Speciality DSP. This paper is textured and more of a card stock weight. All the papers in this set are very beautiful and I really had a hard time to cut into it I just wanted to save it forever. But I am trying to not hoard all the nice new stuff.

So, I used Chocolate Chip as my card base. I was asked what size I use for my card base and it is always 4 ¼ by 5 ½” . I just change up the orientation of the base sometimes. My next layer was the striped paper from the Parisian Breeze which I sponged with Chocolate Chip ink.

I added a corner embellishment made with SU’s corner punch out of Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip. I sponged the edge of the Baja Breeze with Chocolate Chip.

I stamped the sentiment on white card stock and the leaves with Baja Breeze and layered it on Chocolate Chip, used the corner ticket punch for the corners.

I stamped the cross with Close to Cocoa, cut it out and used my scissors ( sorry, I have to tell you a funny story that will relate to the other days boo boo; when I was a young girl many, many moons ago, my Mom had left me a note, she said,” leave the sizzers on the table and I will put it in for you.” Well I thought about it and thought about it until I realized she meant “zipper”, so you see I come by my spelling and grammar honestly.) too rough up the edges a little then I sponged it with Chocolate Chip ink for depth.

I cut out our exclusive SU Little Leaves die and tucked it behind and in front of the cross. Adhered the cross to the layered sentiment and I was done.

Thanks for looking and commenting.

Refuge and Strength

I made this card using the Big Shot for the Buttons and the Swirls. the Swirls are two of them linked together in the centre to give the appearance of one large swirl.

The DSP is from Bella Blue and new paper this catalogue. I cut two equal pieces and paper pierced around the edge, layered it on my Almost Navy card base. The next layer is sponged Chocolate Chip card stock layered on Almost Navy. Then I took a 3/4" strip from To the Nines DSP and layered it on Almost Navy added my Big Shot buttons on the end. I tied some string in the paper buttons to make them look more like real buttons.

I stamped the cross with Close to Cocoa and stamped the sentiment with Chocolate Chip. The little branches were stamped in Bordering Blue. This layer was layered onto Almost Navy and then placed on top of all the other layers.

The two swirls were joined in the centre and glued onto the side of the card front layers.

Thanks for looking and Commenting. This is a great way to make stamp set samplers but doing a card a day from a stamp set. I think I will try this next week too. Bye for now.