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GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT SKETCH CHALLENGE #GDP354

This week’s Global Design Project is a Sketch Challenge and this sketch is open to so many interpretations.

One tag – that’s it! There are so many different things that could be done using this sketch.

I knew immediately that I would use the Tailor Made Tags Dies for my project – but how? One tag? More tags?

The first thing I decided was to make a birthday card.

Then I decided to take the Perfectly Penciled 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper and cut several tags from a range of paper designs.

I used a range of Stampin’ Blends to colour the flowers and leaves on each of the DSP designs.

After the floral tags were coloured, I attached each tag to a larger Basic Black tag using Stampin’ Dimensionals. The black tags were then adhered to a slimline card.

I used the Alphabest Stamp Set and coordinating Best Label to create the ‘happy’. Each of the punched letters were attached to the floral tags using dimensionals.

The ‘birthday’, from the Lovely & Lasting Stamp Set, was partially stamped using Parakeet Party. The cardstock was trimmed down and positioned under one of the tags using dimensionals.

To finish the card I added several gold sequins, from the Adhesive-backed Seasonal Sequins pack, to the card front.

I hope that you pop along to the Global Design Project blog to see what their Design Team created using the same sketch. Click below, to head over to see all the projects.

I enjoyed colouring each of the flowers in a variety of colours.

I’m not sure what tomorrow’s project will be – it will be a surprise for me and you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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TIME FOR A NEW CARD MAKING TECHNIQUE THIS TUESDAY

It has been loads of fun looking for different techniques to share each Tuesday. Today I have a colouring technique using bleach.

I used an Early Espresso card base and Early Espresso ink to stamp the large floral image on to the bottom left-hand corner of the card.

Two more were stamped on to smaller pieces of the Early Espresso cardstock and die cut.

Each of the floral images were then lightly ‘painted’ with bleach. This lightens the cardstock colour. In this instance, a dark chocolately pink was the result of bleach colouring.

The two bleached floral images were die cut before being scrunched to pop up on the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I took the ledger-styled piece of DSP and cut it for the card front. Then I carefully tore a large curved shape that could be positioned across the top and down the side of the card front.

The birthday greeting was stamped and cut using the smaller banner die from the Sending Dies set.

Finally, I took a length of Petal Pink Organdy Striped Ribbon, cut it in half lengthwise and tied it inot a tight bow with trimmed ends. A Mini Glue Dot holds the bow in place.

The card insert and envelope have some of the large floral image stamped using Early Espresso ink.

I’m not sure yet, but I may add some embellishments to the card. What do you think? What should I add?

Tomorrow is Wednesday – a wonderful day to share challenge and blog hop projects.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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IT IS MONDAY & TIME TO SHARE A SCRAPBOOKING PAGE DESIGNED FOR A MEMORY

When I looked at the Abigail Rose 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper, there was one design that I knew I wanted to use for a scrapbook layout. It is the sheet that looks like a vintage ledger page.

Here is the layout –

I strated by mounting this piece of DSP onto a 12″x 12″ Petal Pink cardstock to give the page reinforcement.

Then I cut a piece of Petal Pink cardstock to 6-1/2″x 4-1/2″ as a background layer for a photo. I partially stamped the large floral image on the base DSP layer and then calculated where to stamp the ‘rest’ of the image on to the Petal Pink cardstock. I used Early Espresso ink for these stamped images.

Three more large flowers were stamped, coloured with Stampin’ Blends and then die cut. As soon as they dried, they were bent and crumpled a little. Stampin’ Dimensionals were positioned on the back. Then I positioned them on the page, as you can see.

Finally, I used the totally amazing new Alphabest Bundle – Alphabest Stamp Set and coordinating Best Label Punch. It was so quick and easy to stamp and punch out the ‘congratulations’ for this page.

The vintage ledger appearance of this DSP designed page is fantastic.

I can see this layout being used for a graduation scrapbook page and I know that I have some wonderful photos of both our daughters at their respective Bachelor’s graduation ceremonies.

This was a wonderful page layout to create. I will need to make a second one so that each of our daughters have the same graduation memory.

Tomorrow is Technique Tuesday and tomorrow I will be colouring with bleach.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$19.25