Good Monday Morning Fellow Stampers -
Whew! What a fast and busy weekend. I've got almost all of my Summer garden and planting done now, thank goodness! A few more planters left to do; and then keep those grass seeds wet and see if I can get the lawn to grow back in. Miss Sadie and I had a big busy Saturday; even got our "nails" done for the first time ;-) I've been busily cutting and prepping Shares packets for all those who ordered. And trying to keep up with designing and housework. I think I need a vacation -- LOL! Now it's back to the real job. **Post Note -- Yes, indeedy :-) This design is the "headliner" at the Paper Players for Challenge 251! Such an honor!
Today is Paper Players [PP251] challenge time. I'm in full "patriotic" mode now, so we'll play with some more "red, white, and blue" today :-)
Doggone Delightful Stampin' Design Tips:
- Layerothology. Let's play our layers a little different today. Instead of the typical Whisper White card base -- today's card base is cut from Real Red, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4" -- and Whisper White actually becomes the first layer (1/8" in all the way around). The next layer is Night of Navy, that has been embossed with the Lucky Stars TIEF, and lightly stamped with Gorgeous Grunge "splatter dots" and the cute "star" image from the Be The Star stamp set, using Whisper White Craft ink. Looks like a "sparkler" across the night sky :-)
- Stars Stars Stars. Using the beautiful "larger" star image from the Be The Star stamp set, it's inked in Night of Navy, stamped on Whisper White cardstock, and cut out with the coordinating Stars framelits -- so fast and easy! Then I scored the star on each of the cross lines, and folded outward on the "arms", and inward on the "elbows" to create a 3D effect that is popped with dimensionals. It creates a fabulous effect for the front of the card. This is laid over some White Bakers Twine, and a "stripe" horizontally of Whisper White 1/2" seam binding ribbon, and a little banner created using the "celebrate" from the Good Greetings sentiment set that was all the rage last year (retired). I popped a few little Stars punched with the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, for a nice little finishing accent.
This card design is actually fairly quick and easy; it has enough detail to be eye-catching; but not so overwhelming that you couldn't put it together in about 10-15 minutes. I have several friends and relatives that have July birthdays, and I think this card would make a fabulous birthday card as well! So I left the pearls off -- would you have put pearls on today's design? If so, where? I'd love to hear your thoughts :-)
I hope everyone has a fabulous Monday and a good start to their week. It's hard to believe, but tomorrow is the last day of June; and believe it or not we've already passed the longest day of the year. Which means the days start getting shorter and it's all downhill from here -- LOL ;) Before you know it, the snow will be flying! Let's try to enjoy some Summertime before then!
Until Next Time . . .
