Monthly Archives: February 2007

Just over a week ago, at the beginning of my blogging experience, I was musing over how two stampers could take the same materials and come up with very different cards. (Creative Time entry) I thought it could make a very fun challenge and my friend Jacksonbelle and I decided to go for it. The challenge is….two stampers, two cards (one each), two products the same….in this case, the brand new Cosmo Cricket Dutch Girl line of paper and the Petal Prints stamp set from STampin Up. Now this isn’t a contest…just a little bit of stamping fun. For my card, just look below. For Jacksonbelle’s beautiful card, and the other card to the challenge…check out her new blog, Embellished. Let us know if you’d like us to do this again.

Dutch Girl Petals

 Supply List:

Cardstock: Bordering Blue, Rose Red, Whisper White – SU

Patterned Paper: Dutch Girl Line – Cosmo Cricket

STamps: Petal Prints, Everyday Flexible Phrases – Stampin Up

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Bordering Blue – SU

Other: Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Script Embossing folder, sewing machine, Prima flower, Karen Foster tab brads, eyelet – making memories, Crop-a-dile – We R Memory Keepers. Have boo review written soon right here writinghelponline.com/

I had NO idea where I was going with this card and color challenge when I started. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Usually though, the journey is fun! I like this fun fresh color combo for spring. To play along, follow this link… This card is 5 1/4″ square. I just love that size and working with a square shape. It is a little harder to find envelopes, but the extra surface area to work with makes it so much more fun. Bottom layer of this card is stamped with Petal Prints daisies. The celery layer is stamped with a retired SU background stamp, By Definition…I love the flexibility of the words. The next layer, I was just having a little fun….I wanted to try out a graphic look for this fun combo so I decided to see what a little grid would look like. The squares are 1″square and sponged on the edges. Once I got to the top layer…hmmmm….what to do! I didn’t want to cover up the design of the squares but stamping much on them might be kind of tricky. A layer of acetate! Perfect! I stamped the sentiment in black stazon on the front. The white stazon flowers are then stamped on the reverse. Stazon is a fabulous ink that will stamp on virtually anything! Black stazon is a fabulous basic for every stamper to have. White is my second fave and they are making cool new colors available all the time. The acetate layer is stitched on the card front and then I adhered the Prima flower with a glue dot. The center of the Prima is actually a peewter brad. To make it tone in, I covered the brad with eggplant craft ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Voila….a perfect match. Descent into a universe of great sizes with the assistance of https://proessayhelp.org/ educational ghostwriting service. I found a little scrap of this stitched celery ribbon on my desk to finish it off.

Supply List:

Cardstock: Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery, Cool Caribbean – SU

Stamps: Petal prints, Happy Harmony, By Definition – SU

Ink: Black Stazon, White Stazon, Certainly Celery, Elegant Eggplant – SU

Other: Acetate transparency – STaples, Prima flower, brad, sewing machine, ribbon