As a youngster, I would never combine fussy patterns such as lace and polka dots, plaids and stripes, and so on. You know, it was “too busy!” Fast forward to today’s world and often it seems, the more patterns the better. Case in point, my two year old granddaughter stayed with us this weekend and one of her dresses had multiple patterns combined. I must admit it looked great. So for today’s card, I stepped outside the old way of thinking and combined lace and polka dots. The lace comes from the Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards and Tin. So, be sure to check them out.
Confession time! For a couple of weeks, my craft table has held a laser-cut card with a cardstock lining while I was waiting for a design inspiration. I would pick it up, play with different elements but nothing seemed to wow me. It was during an online presentation this weekend by fellow demonstrator, Patty Bennett, that inspiration started. She presented a sample Bird Ballard Laser-cut card with a cardstock lining and discussed trying a patterned Designer Series Paper liner. But for her design, she thought a solid background was best. So, I started thinking…what if I use a small pattern as the panel behind the lace? So the answer became lace and polka dots. For my card, the Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Card has a lining of the pink polka dot pattern from the Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper. Even better, the reverse side of the Bird Ballard Designer Series Paper creates a beautiful interior panel on the card. To avoid too many patterns, the card front design remains very simple. Just a sentiment and a couple of elements fussy cut from the Bird Ballard Designer Series Paper. More details follow below the card photo.
Materials:
Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin
Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper (DSP) – Pink Polka Dot Design (4-1/8″ x 5-1/2″)
Attach the Bird Ballard Designer Series Paper panel to the lace panel card interior using small dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. NOTE: Check that the reverse design is in the correct direction.
Select sentiment and use Stamparatus to stamp onto the piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. First, stamp the sentiment using Crumb Cake Stampin Pad. Do not remove stamp from Stamparatus but use the Simply Shammy to carefully wipe the ink from the stamp. Dust paper with the Embossing Buddy. Use Versamark to ink stamp and stamp the sentiment again. Carefully remove cardstock from the Stamparatus. Apply Clear Emboss Powder and set using the heat tool.
After the embossed sentiment is cool, cut using a Stitched Nested Labels Die.
With paper snips, fussy cut floral elements from the Bird Ballard Designer Series Paper. To avoid too much visual overload, I opted to keep the same color tones as the polka dot designer series paper. Also, cut a bird from the paper. TIP: Select a partial bird from the edge of the DSP since you’ll be using just the bird’s head. Also, cut an extra set of leaves to tuck around bird’s head and flowers.
Position the bird head and flowers around the sentiment piece. Attach to the cardstock using snail and mini glue dots.
Cut 2 pieces of the Petal Pink Organdy Stripped Ribbon approximately 3 inches in length. Fold each in half and attach to the center of the laser cut panel at each side so that it will peek from behind the sentiment label.
Next, attach the sentiment label using Stampin’ Dimensionals onto the laser-cut card and over the ribbon.
Finish by adding small Rhinestone Basic Jewels to the center of the flowers.
Hope that I have inspired you to mix it up and try combining different patterns!
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A Beautiful Wild Rose card is one of the projects from this month’s card classes. It features using the To A Wild Rose photopolymer stamp set. The Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog has lots of beautiful floral sets but the To A Wild Rose is definitely one of my favorites. The stamp set also has coordinating Wild Rose Dies and is offered with a 10% discount in the To A Wild Rose Bundle. Two-step stamping can be used with the stamps so that depth of colors can be added to the images. However, the outline stamp is beautiful to use by itself. For this card, the wild roses are stamped using the two-step stamping method and the masking technique was also utilized. Additional details are below the card photos.
Inks: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin’ Pad, Highland Heather Classic Stampin’ Pad, Garden Green Classic Stampin’ Pad
Dies: Wild Rose Dies, Stitched Nested Labels
5/8″ Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon
Noble Peacock Rhinestones
Adhesives: Snail, Mini Glue Dots and Stampin’ Dimensionals
Directions:
Create the card base from a 4-1/4″ x 11″ piece of Rich Razzleberry cardstock (score at 5-1/2″ & fold). Add a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Highland Heather cardstock.
Cut a piece of Whisper White cardstock (3-3/4″ x 5″) to use for stamping the wild roses.
Before stamping the roses onto the Whisper White cardstock, create a wild rose “mask” to use for covering the roses. To create the mask, stamp the rose outline stamp onto a 3″ x 3″ post-it note. Be sure to stamp near the adhesive strip. Fussy cut the rose. Set aside to use for covering the roses before stamping the leaves to the card. TIP: make multiple masks to speed the stamping process. Also, save the mask inside of the stamp case and you’ll have it for future use.
Using the Wild Rose outline stamp, randomly stamp three of the rose outlines onto the Whisper White cardstock using the Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. Refer to card photo for placement. For the full rose stamp, use Highland Heather ink pad to color the rose base. For the final rose stamp, use the Rich Razzleberry ink pad. Attach to card base using Snail adhesive.
Place the “masks” over the stamped roses. Stamp the leaves using Garden Green ink pad. The leaves outline stamp and only one of the leaves layer stamp are used.
With the Wild Rose Dies, cut 2 open leaves from a scrap of Garden Green cardstock and 3 of the small flowers from the Vellum cardstock. Add them to the card with mini glue dots. TIP : Prepare the sentiment layer (step 7) and use as a guide for placement of the embellishment pieces.
Stamp the sentiment onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and cut using the small Stitched Nested Labels Die. With a larger Stitched Nested Labels Die, cut a scrap of the Rich Razzleberry cardstock. Layer the two pieces using Stampin’ Dimensionals. Add to the card using Snail Adhesive.
Complete the card by adding a Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon Bow and a Noble Peacock Rhinestone as seen in card photo.
Have fun coming up with your own color combinations using the To A Wild Rose stamp set. Be sure to comment below what color combinations you select!
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Are you looking for creative fun? Projects that have everything needed to complete? If so, Stampin’ Up! has you covered with kits, kits and more kits! The Looking Up Card Kit, Notes of Kindness Card Kit and Lots of Happy Card Kit are on pages 202-203 in the Annual Catalog. And of course, Paper Pumpkin is another all-inclusive kit option. Project kits are designed to make crafting simpler. The project design, pre-cut supplies and project materials are in one convenient kit. This makes crafting easier and more fun. The videos and photo below highlights the three kits.
In addition, the following video provides a peek into the August Paper Pumpkin kit. This project kit includes 6 gift bags and 12 gift tags. Even better, there is an add-on kit! So after completing the kit, you can use the extra components in the kit to make additional projects. Click here to place your order for the kit before August 10. Note: the add-on kit is available for order starting August 1st. Place your order for it in my online store.
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