Canopy Crafts: sweet essentials

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Swallowtail Multi-Color Technique

Hi there, friends! I'm so excited to share today's card with you. But first, Jaydee has a wonderful Clean-and-Simple sketch challenge for us over at The Paper Players:

Such a great sketch with all kinds of possibilities. While at Stampin' Up's Leadership Conference last weekend, we saw a demonstration using multiple ink pads to color the gorgeous Swallowtail stamp from the Spring Catalog. I was so inspired to try it myself:

I turned the stamp rubber side up and applied ink directly with the ink pad, tilting the ink pad and brushing it on in sections like a paintbrush. Starting in the middle and working outward I used Elegant Eggplant, Summer Starfruit and Baja Breeze.

Because I wanted the butterfly to float off the edge of the card base and show more of the beautiful stamp, I stamped it again on the Summer Starfruit base using the stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up with the previous stamped image. I also spritzed a little Soft Suede marker across the card front.

On the inside, I used Baja Breeze and Summer Starfruit only to ink the butterfly, stamped off once and then onto the Whisper White cardstock. A sentiment from Blooming with Kindness was added to bring in my third color--Elegant Eggplant.

With the large Swallowtail stamp, I've shown you just one way to interpret Jaydee's clean-and-simple sketch. Check out the rest of the Design Team for even more gorgeous inspiration. I hope you'll come back to The Paper Players and show us your creation before this challenge closes on Friday, January 25th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by today!

The Paper Players Design Team

Stamps: Swallowtail; Blooming with Kindness; Sweet Essentials
Ink: Summer Starfruit, Elegant Eggplant, Baja Breeze
Paper: Summer Starfruit, Whisper White CS
Xtras: Color Spritzer; Soft Suede marker; Dazzling Diamonds; glue pen

Sunday, October 21, 2012

All Framed Up! {PP118}

Happy Sunday everyone! Welcome to another week with The Paper Players. It's finally started to cool down here in North Florida and we are lovin' it. Mind you, when I say cool I mean mid-70s, LOL! Anywho...let's see what our hostess-with-the-mostest, Anne Marie has this week for our Clean-and-Simple challenge.

Our challenge was to incorporate frames into our projects keeping it clean-and-simple. So I turned to the Four Frames stamp set and went to town with all of them!

I was inspired by the colors in this fabulous card from Rochelle Gould. Isn't it incredible?! I used Basic Gray, Cajun Craze, More Mustard and Baja Breeze and stamped them in all of the images from Four Frames. I matted the whole piece with More Mustard, trimmed it out in some More Mustard designer paper from the Regals Designer Series Paper Pattern Stack, wrapped it with Baja Breeze Seam Binding ribbon and a Designer Ribbon Slide. Do you have these ribbon slides from the Holiday Catalog yet? You should! They're great!

This is just one of my "stash" cards so I left the inside without a sentiment but repeated some more frames...and that's it! Pretty clean and oh-so-simple! So simple it's a little embarrassing even! The rest of the design team has some awesome projects for you so be sure to check them out. Hope you'll join the fun but don't delay! The Paper Players challenge ends Friday, October 26th at Noon (PDT)!