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It's time for Team A from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to share ideas for this week's sketch. Use our sketch to get you started on a project. You can flip, flop, rotate, alter shapes.... do what you like to the sketch. We just need to be able to see the sketch in your project.
I chose to keep it pretty close to the sketch design this time. I did change the shapes to the leaves. My top layer is fussy cut around the sentiment, but you can still see the sketch in my design.
I did a lot of hot foiling for this card because I just can't help myself. I LOVE our new hot foil system! It's fun and easy to use and really looks nice on my projects!
This card uses our New Hot Foil Dies: Buffalo Check, Lustrous Leaves and Classic Greetings. These newest hot foil dies and Copper Foil will be available starting tomorrow, September 1st along with many others and new foil colors.
I love the Buffalo Check Hot Foil Die and felt it would be a fun look for this design. What do you think? HINT: I did one large piece and cut out the center since no one would see it. Now I have another smaller Buffalo Check piece to use later! This is one way I make the most of my supplies.
The leaves were hot foiled the other day and just waiting for me to use. I colored them with the coordinating stencils making it really easy.
I hot foiled the sentiment and ultimately decided to fussy cut around it so there wasn't so much white showing. This layer is popped up on Dimensionals.
Finally, I went through my embellishments to find something to go with the design. I found the sunset Sparkle Sequins and decided that was the accent it needed.
The inside of the card is a simple stenciling of the cardstock. There are 5 stencils and #5 has this nice display of leaves. I kept the color to the lighter one used on the front. Now it's ready for a custom message when I use the card.
Now it's your turn to give our sketch a try. The challenge goes live on Monday and our blog opens for entries on Wednesday's. Have fun! We can't wait to see how our sketch inspires you!
Hello and welcome to a new color challenge from our team at Color Dare. Each Friday we give you a new palette of colors to inspire your creativity. Use our challenge colors to make any paper craft you like. Make sure your colors are a close match. More details are in the graphic seen below.
When you're ready to join our challenge use the link below.
The purple steered me toward the Framed Violets set. I love Violets! Pairing the colors with a sketch and it came together nicely.
Once I had the flowers colored with ink and a water painter I die cut the flowers and the oval. Next up wad the pieces behind the oval. The sizes are ad follows: 3/4" x 4-3/4" CS, 1" x 4" CS, 2" x 3" DSP.
The sentiment is from our new Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil Dies withy Gold Foil. I do a bunch at once and keep them in a container so they are ready to go!
A few Dots for accents and the front is done!
Here is what the inside looks like. I wanted to bring in the DSP to the inside so I kept it simple. Since it's a notecard I add a sentiment. I'll write a custom message when I use it.
This is the finished project. I glued a piece of the DSP to the envelope flap for a pretty surprise when they go to open it. Fun, right?
The other day I decided to create some Christmas cards with the Pretty Poinsettia Bundle. Now if you know me you've heard me say more than one time that I LOVE to make Christmas cards in non-traditional colors. I do like traditional colors but I really like non-traditional colors, too! Lets take a look at this one in Hydrangea Hue.
Sticking with the Hydrangea Hue, White and Silver theme I came up with this beauty. The silver is a Hot Foil design and the leaves on the right are die cut from silver paper.
The background is mostly stamped then hot foiled. On the right end you can see the embossed section that adds a fun texture.
The Pretty Poinsettia Bundle has the stamp set and dies. The extra fun part about the dies is that they are designed so when you use our Impressions Plate after die cutting it gives an even deeper impression of the die. Take a close look at the flower petals and you'l see what I mean.
Using the Impressions Plate is easy. You die cut the normal way. After that flip over the die with the CS in place, lay the Impressions Plate on top and run it through again. Now you have the deep image! By the way, it's called an Impressions Plate but it's actually a rubber mat kind of thing.
I alternated white and Hydrangea Hue leaves for my flower because I wanted to create a better contrast with the flower and background. The touch of silver leaves carries the silver from one endow the card to the other.
The flower was put together using Mini Gluer Dots in the center. Play around either the way you layer the petals to ge the look you want. I actually added 2 layers of the 2nd largest petal for s fuller look.
The Rhinestones add a nice touch of sparkle and the ribbon gives your eyes a stopping place on the left end.
I hope you enjoyed seeing one of my favorite Christmas cards for this coming season. I have a few more in this color theme I'll share soon.
I didn't plan it this way but it fell into place perfectly so I'm going with it. Last week on What's Up Wednesday I showed you a technique for using the Simple Leaf Punch. Today I have a different technique using that same punch that will surprise you!
I can't claim I came up with this idea myself. that credit goes to my fellow demonstrator Liz Wheeler. As soon as I saw her card I knew I needed to give it a try! Thanks for the inspiration, Liz!
Do you see what I saw when I looked at this card? I saw the cute strawberry as my mind was telling me we don't have a strawberry stamp like that! As I looked harder I realized it was made using the Simple Leaf Punch! How very clever!
This photo shows the two images I used to create the strawberry. Do you see a strawberry now? The larger leaves can be punched out with the coordination Simple Leaf Punch. The small leaves need to be fussy cut. Don't worry about the stems as they aren't seen in this design.
In this photo you can see the layers I built with the elements. The middle leaf is glued directly to the card front. The berry and other two leave are popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals foam. This multi layer look gives a nice depth to the design. The red bow accents the berry and covers the ends of the leaves you don't want seen.
The DSP used is 2026-2028 Gingham Gallery. Each side has a tone on tone plaid with one side being a larger and the other side a smaller version. I liked the smaller side for this design because it reminded me of a berry basket. The Perennial Postage Dies also add to the feeling of the berry basket with the notches.
The sentiment is from our Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil Dies. I used gold foil to go with the warm tone of the colors. The fun part about this die is you get a bunch of sentiments all at once! I keep the rest of them in a craft box ready to go at a moments notice. A few gold accents ties in with the gold of the sentiment.
What do you think of this surprising use of the Simple Leaf Punch? Thanks again, Liz Wheeler, for the inspiration. I had a lot of fun making this card and re-living the memories of all those times my daughters and I went strawberry picking.
This is the third card of three in Christmas card color them of Hydrangea Hue, White and Silver. I'm sure there will be more in the future so stay tuned!
Once again I've used the same elements to create a card each time giving it a different look from the last. This card is 3-1/2" x 5" in a white base.
This time I used a stamped then hot foiled piece of Hydrangea Hue along the left edge of the card base. I layered a torn piece of white CS then a torn piece of the DSP.
The sentiment is from the same Ephemera pack as the other cards. This time I used a Blending Brush to soften the white space with a touch of Hydrangea Hue ink. A die cut leaf anchors the popped up sentiment layer. I added some sparkle with Rhinestones to go along with the Hot Foil Swiss Dots background.
How fun! All three cards in this series share the same colors yet all three had entirely different looks. It's fun to experiment with the same items!
Be on the look out for more ideas in this color theme. I'm sure there will be more coming soon as well as other non-traditional Christmas colors for cards.
As I've mentioned before, this is our August Product of the Month. With a qualifying order of $75 this gorgeous Paper Pack is yours for only $5! You get 12 sheets of 12" x 12" single side pattern paper. The colors are beautiful AND it has a pearlized finish that makes it extra pretty!
This card also features many in our New Hot Foil dies. The Lustrous Leaves and Reverse Hot Foil Dies and Copper Foil will be available Sept. 1st, so this is a sneak peek!
I trimmed off 1-1/4" off the card front base to show the inside of the card where I hot foiled the bricks from the Echoes of Detail set.
I let the Lustrous Leaves DSP do the heavy lifting for me by hot foiling the leaves directly to the DSP. This created Fall colored leaves in one easy step! Well, 2 easy steps when you count die cutting out the leaves. A few of the leaves are popped up with Dimensionals to give some depth to the design.
Once I laid out the leaves on the card front it looked a bit plain with just the leaves so I used the Swiss Dots Hot Foil die before adhering the leaves and it's perfect to fill in the blank space but not overpower. By the way, I'm using tone on tone CS which means I layered Early Espresso CS on top of the same color. Look closely in the photo and you can see how it looks.
Finally, a sentiment was added by using the Sweetly Sentimental Hot Foil die and the NEW (coming Sept. 1st) Reverse Hot Foil Die. This special die allows you to use the "scrap" foil left over. Here's what I did. I used the Sweetly Sentimental die and hot foiled. I got the letters in hot foil. Next I used that scrap piece to hot foil again. This time the letters are the CS color surround by the hot foil. Not waste! Isn't that great!
Here's the inside of the cards. I had a leftover leaf so of course it went n the inside! The inside is just waiting for a custom message I'll add when I use the card.
