Above Par Birthday Card

The Mod Squad Challenge this week is “Fast & Easy” for those times where you “just need to get a card done quickly.”   (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

I was on vacation with my family and returned home realizing I needed a birthday card which needed to be mailed the next day in order for it to arrive on time.  (I seem to have trouble with birthdays that are on the 1st of a month; it was the end of June, and I forgot July was right around the corner!!)  I decided to take advantage of an awesome piece of scrapbook paper by 7gypsies called “Vintage Varsity:  Putt” and used the corner of the sheet as my card base.  Here is what the whole sheet looks like:

The printed panel was mounted on Gina K Charcoal Brown card stock and then on a Recollections Kraft base.

The greeting was stamped with Gina K Charcoal Brown ink on the kraft and charcoal brown as well. The stamp is called Above Par Birthday Greeting by DRS Designs and actually says, “May your Birthday be like your golf game – way Above Par!” but I wasn’t sure if the “joke” would be appreciated so I masked out the “like your golf game” part!

To finish off the card, I added some jute and a metal golf bag charm I had in my stash.  (I had ordered these HERE a while back.)

Thanks for checking out my card project!

(photo of printed paper was a google image photo and not my own)

Best Wishes – Color Challenge

Join us this fortnight over at Perfectly Rustics for Design Challenge No. 50 – Colour Combo. For this challenge, we are to use three Stampin’ Up! colors (Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party, and Smoky Slate) to create our project. Equivalent colors in different products and neutrals are allowed! (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/06/15/prdc-no-50-colour-combo/)

The stamps I used for this project came from the Gina K Designs “Fleur de Lis” and “Birthday Blessings” sets.

The butterflies were heat embossed with versamark ink and Recollections “Snow” embossing powder. The greeting and flowers were stamped with Gina K Ocean Mist ink (substitute for Stampin’ Up Pool Party), and the leaves were stamped with Tim Holtz Peeled Paint distress ink (substitute for SU Pear Pizzazz). With a sponge dauber, I applied a bit of Memento London Fog ink (substitute for the SU Smoky Slate) over the white embossed butterflies and around the edges of the white panels.

My white stamped panels were mounted on Stampin’ Up Smoky Slate card stock.

Measurements for my panels:  (2″ x 3 1/4″), (3″ x 4 1/4″), (4″ x 5 1/4″),  and the mats:  (2 1/4″ x 3 1/2″), (3 1/4″ x 4 1/2″) and the card base (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″)

I’ve done triple stamping before, but I had never used multiple colors or the emboss-resist technique for my focal images.  I was inspired to do so on this project after viewing THIS video tutorial.

Now it’s your turn!  Create a project using these colors, and share it over at Perfectly Rustics  I can’t wait to see what you create!

Thanks for checking out my card project!

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Tissue Paper Flowers

 Over at Perfectly Rustics this week, the challenge is to try a new technique. (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2015/04/20/prdc-no-46-new-technique/)

This is the second card I tried using the tissue paper technique.

For this card, I used blue tissue paper from an American Greetings super value pack and Gina K heavy base weight blue denim card stock, and I used decoupage (with a satin finish) to adhere the crumpled tissue paper to the card stock and also for a top coat to seal it.   Instead of using this panel for the background as I did previously, I wanted to try to cut it with a die to use as my focal images.  I used the Sizzix Flowers Layers #3 Original Die (which is a steel rule die), and it cut beautifully!  I then made another tissue paper panel (with tissue paper that I did not wrinkle but left smooth) and used Spellbinders Classic Square (large) dies to cut the frames, and that worked well also!  I was surprised because I thought it would be hard to get through several layers of decoupage on tissue and card stock, but it was no problem at all!  I love the texture of the flowers with the tissue paper; it almost looks and feels like leather, and the decoupage made them bright and shiny.

I created the centers of the flowers with my Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Bubble Cap maker , Clear Round (14) epoxy shapes, and the same yellow card stock used for the card base.  This tool is pretty cool because you can use whatever paper you want to create custom embellishments for your projects.

The polka dotted paper behind the flowers was from the Recollections All Girl 6×6 paper pack, and the solid yellow card stock was from the DCWV Brights 12×12 card stock stack.  The white panel was Gina K heavy base pure white card stock which I embossed using the Darice Flower Frenzy Embossing Folder.  My greeting was from the Gina K Designs “Birthday Label Duo” stamp set (retired?) and was stamped with Gina K Blue Denim ink. I used a scrap of the tissue paper panel behind my greeting.  A piece of American Craft ribbon finished it off.

Because these flowers with the frames were too big to fit on an A2 sized card, this card is 5×7.

If you’d like to learn and try a new technique,  join us over at Perfectly Rustics and share your project! We’d love to see it!!

Thanks for checking out my card project!

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