KRAFTY CIRCLE SQUARES

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Playing along with this FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES Challenge

(ends 5/11)

I wasn’t quite sure exactly what direction I was going to head when I first saw the sketch above, but I LOLed at Kim’s mentioning she was going to do squares since there had been lots of circles previously, because I already knew I was going to fill my squares with circles 😂

After I found the paper collection I wanted to use it was just a matter of semi-precision cutting and pasting. Squares were raised slightly with heavyweight scrap card. White elements on the kraft card stock were heat embossed. This card measures approximately 4.75” square. 

SUPPLIES

Hello sentiment stamp - Gina K. Designs Petite Geranium clear set

Best you sentiment stamp - Fun Stampers Journey cling rubber set #SS-0632

splatter dots stamp - Stampin’ Up! random (1998)

patterned paper - Pebbles Spring Fling #733112

white detail embossing powder

And another card I made using my extras:

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BE YOU FLORAL & PENNANT

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Playing along with this ATLANTIC HEARTS SKETCH CHALLENGE  

(ends 5/3)

Also playing along with this The Paper Players Challenge

(ends 5/8)

I do love a sketch to follow along with, and Michelle’s above is a fun one! And Jaydee’s mood board really meshed with the stamps and direction I was heading. 

I really enjoy paper-piecing images, and love these particular stamps. I also wanted to go with some Spring-y feminine colors. Speaking of paper piecing, I didn’t have enough floral background paper left to do a square card and had to get pretty creative paper piecing there as well!

SUPPLIES

female stamp - Jane Davenport Giraffe Wisdom clear set #JDS-053

sentiment stamp - Picket Fence It’s Peopley Out There clear set #S-150

pennant stamp - Simple Stories Always in My Heart clear set #10739

flat back gems - BoBunny Willow&Sage candy dots

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PANELED FLOWER BOUQUET

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Playing along with this ATLANTIC HEARTS SKETCH CHALLENGE  

(ends 4/27?)

Another lovely sketch to play with, and of course I had to use this new-to-me, old, Stampin’ Up! bouquet to mirror all the wonderousness springing up outside. The bunnies took a chomp from our budding tulips but we must not have the tasty variety because they left it half eaten 🐰

        

After dry embossing and sectioning the white panels, I put a little Bundled Sage reinker in the ink pad lid with some water and then spattered the card stock. The flower bouquet was colored in with alcohol markers, fussy cut, and foam mounted over a strip of burlap ribbon as shown.  I trimmed the ribbon ends from the bouquet and affixed a premade burlap bow. The die cut sentiment panel was cut down from a fancier one. Behind that is a die cut label from a cardstock scrap I covered in the same marker as the tulips. I pierced it lightly because it was looking too plain and solid. I was concerned if I used a white gel pen instead for dots it might bleed. I really feel like I’m living life on the very edge every time I affix something to my card front and then proceed to mess about with it 😂

SUPPLIES

flower bouquet stamp - Stampin’ Up! Life’s Special Moments set

sentiment stamp -  unlabeled

label dies - Stampin’ Up!

embossing folder - Altenew Ribbon Waves

flat back gems - Waffle Flower Candy Dots

burlap bow - The Paper Studio

burlap ribbon - trimmed down from wider strip, unlabeled

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LOVE NOTE PUP

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Playing along with this ATLANTIC HEARTS SKETCH CHALLENGE  

(ends 4/19)

UPDATE!

and this PENNY BLACK SATURDAY CHALLENGE Optional Pastel colors 

(ends 4/30?)

Love the sketch but needed to flip it to accommodate the direction the pup insisted on facing 😂

The background was made by stamping the postage collage image in black ink, trimming the edges and cutting it into squares, and then sponging all the edges lightly with a red ink. I used my little Prickly Pear clear T-square to lay out a grid in pencil and then affixed the squares back into order. The dog was colored in with alcohol markers and foam mounted. There is a little flat back aurora heart gem on the envelope flap. The stamped and die cut sentiment was backed with a heavyweight card stock scrap. 

SUPPLIES

postage background stamp - Hero Arts Mail Jumble #CG750

dog stamp -  Penny Black Love Note #2860H

 sentiment stamp and die - Spellbinders Nature’s Dance set #CSOM-JAN25

flat back aurora heart gem - The Paper Studio

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SO KIND TULIPS.

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Playing along with this THE PAPER PLAYERS color challenge by Jan

(ends 4/17).

The background was stenciled with Daffodil Delight, then overstamped with collage words in gray ink, stamping off once for the top corner, and spatter marks in black ink. Floral image was stamped on gray cardstock in Versafine black ink, and cut with an oval die. The oval panel photos a bit dark. The sentiment was cut from a scrap piece I ink blended the yellow onto in a slight gradient.

SUPPLIES

flowers stamp - Hero Arts Newspaper Tulips  #K5576

words stamp -  River City Rubber Works Ephemera Words #CEW-23 

 splatter stamp - DeNami Design 

words die - ProvoCraft metal plate die

stencil - unmarked, from Amazon multi-pack

preprinted sentiment strip

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SPOTLIGHT AMARYLLIS.

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Playing along with this JUST US GIRLS Challenge

(ends 4/15).

Floral collage image was stamped in Memento gray ink on white card stock. The tag was stamped over this and colored in as shown with alcohol markers; I used a blender with a dark blue maker inside the tag and around the stem, and a gray marker on two outside edges to give the tag a shadow. I used a SU distressing wheel to rough up the edges of the panel and backed it with fun foam before mounting to light gray card base. The sentiment strip is slightly raised by a strip of scrap heavy weight card stock. 

I had originally intended to place the tag stamp about half an inch higher to encompass more bloom. But I was using older wood mounted stamps with the Stampa-ma-jig, and my plastic placement guide sheet must’ve slipped a bit. Do you ever find you are so close to your projects that you don’t notice things like this til you get the color down?! 🤭

SUPPLIES

flower with text stamp - Penny Black Floral Story  #4210K

tag stamp - Dawn Houser for Inkadinkado #305 

 inks - Memento London Fog & Tuxedo Black

alcohol markers

preprinted sentiment strip

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