fresh & fun

Sunday’s Featured Stamper was Heather Puvirenti.  I was excited. Heather is a frequent visitor of my blog and she always makes the most awesome cards with my sketch challenges. It was great to get to case her.

I picked this card from her Splitcoast gallery. I liked the the sketch this layout she used and her flower accent on it.

My card base is a 8″ square of Soft Sky cardstock folded in half.

It will fit in SU’s large open ended envelopes, or you could just use a regular business size envelope to send the card.

The next layer measures 3″ x 7 1/2″ and is from the Cutie Pie Designer Paper pack.  I taped it down and added Paper piercing over it.

Layered on top of the Cutie Pie paper is a 6 1/4″ long scallop strip in Wild Wasabi. I made the scallops with the slit punch.

Making scallops with the slit punch is really easy. Just cut a strip of cardstock, slide your slit punch in all the way and punch. Hold your slit punch upside down so you see the bottom of it, slide it back into the cardstock, line up the scallop with your last one and punch again. Repeat until your turned your strip of cardstock into a scallop border.

Over the Wild Wasabi cardstock is a 2″ x 6 1/4″ piece of Soft Sky Prints Designer paper. I taped both together, ran Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbon around it and added my Sentiment.

I had stamped the saying from Fabulous Flowers earlier in Purely Pomegranate ink on Shimmery White cardstock, distressed the edges of the cardstock with the cutter kit and added Dazzling Diamond glitter over it. It was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of distressed Purely Pomegranate cardstock.

For the flower accent I inked up the flower from the same set in Groovy Guava and rock ‘n rolled the edges in Purely Pomegranate on Shimmery White cardstock. I cleaned the stamp, inked it up again with Groovy Guava and added Purely Pomegranate ink with my Fantastix around the edges of (what I decided to be) my second layer. Again I cleaned the stamp, inked it with Groovy Guava and added Purely Pomegranate to the outside of the inner flower as well as the three inner spots.

I cut all three flowers out. The first one around the outer edge, second and third around my Purely Pomegranate edging. I adhered them on top of each other, used Liquid Glue over all my Purely Pomegranate edges and added Dazzling Diamond Glitter all over that. I adhered the flower with dimensionals.

Saturday’s inspiration piece for the challenge on SCS was a beaded handbag. Guess what color was on that bag? PURPLE!!!! Come on, that’s not right that I had to use purple twice in one week!

When working on the inspiration challenge, I usually check out the inspiration piece, write down what I want to incoorporate in my card and go to work.

For this piece I wrote down circular images and the color combo: Chocolate Chip, Lavender Lace, More Mustard and Tempting Turquoise.

I also knew it had to sparkle and shine.

I started out with the sketch from this weekend’s sketch challenge. It has the circular shape on the side and is perfect for it.

I got out my Paisley background stamp, stamped it on a 3 3/4″ square of More Mustard with Chocolate Chip craft ink and embossed it with Clear embossing powder. I used the ticket corner punch on all four corners and layered it on a 4″ piece of lavendar lace cardstock that was sponged and corner punched.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock folded in half and sponged in the front. I like to sponge my plain cardstock to give it a richer look.

To add some Turquoise to the mix I cut a 1 7/8″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Tempting Turquoise cardstock, sponged the edges and stamped it with the flower/leaf image from True Friend.

I then ran it through my Cuttlebug (yes, I needed one when it came out. No, I don’t use it enough, I know), sponged the edges and the dry embossed pattern with Chocolate Chip and ran Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon around it.

For the Medaillon, I stamped the big image from True Friend three times with Chocolate Chip craft ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Once on More Mustard, once on Lavender Lace and one time on Tempting Turquoise. I cut them out in different sizes, sponged the edges and layered them on top of each other.

For the half circle I cut one out of Lavender Lace cardstock with my Coluzzle. I stamped the flower/leaf image on it, sponged the edges first with Lavender then with Chocolate Chip and paper pierced the outer edges. Next I cut a More Mustard half circle one setting bigger with the Coluzzle and used my corner rounder to make the scalloped edge. That was sponged as well.

I taped the medaillon on to the circles and added a Purple circle Jewel brad in it’s center.

I punched an oval out of More Mustard cardstock with the large oval punch, stamped the circle flower from True Friend on it with More Mustard and sponged the edges first in More Mustard, then with Chocolate Chip. Once it was dry, I stamped Thank you from All Holidays in Chocolate Chip Craft ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I taped it to the right side of the Tempting Turquoise strip, cut of the end and added another Jewel brad.

Maria, one of my downline, had a sweet little baby girl in July. Here is the announcement card she sent out.

I love that her Pocket card insert is folded. The inside holds a baby picture on the left, and the baby’s stats on the right.