Canopy Crafts

Sunday, August 10, 2014

A Beautiful Bunch of Color {PP208}

Hello and happy Sunday to you! I am delighted to be this week's hostess at The Paper Players for a color challenge:

I love color. I love mixing colors. I love bold color combinations. This one might scare a few people--often 4 color combos do. But that's what a challenge is, right? Something you might not otherwise do on your own, if not pushed a little bit. :-) I saw this photo on Pinterest and fell in love with the colors and texture of these flowers and really just couldn't help but use flowers on my card:

One way to handle a four color combination is to treat the two similar colors almost as one color. Here, I stamped the flower from Beautiful Bunch in Calypso Coral ink on Blushing Bride cardstock. The result is a colored flower, with dark highlights that didn't require any extra effort. Stamping the darker color on lighter cardstock is a quick and easy way to "color" the flowers. You will notice that the flowers are the only place I used Blushing Bride, while the grey is an accent color and the Hello Honey really makes a statement.

I connected the Hello Honey background to the flowers by pulling the color to the center. The same flower was stamped again onto Hello Honey cardstock with the same ink color and just the center was punched with the Boho Blossoms punch. It fits the center of the flower quite well! I colored some pearls with the darkest Daffodil Delight Blendabilities marker for a shade that is very close to Hello Honey. And, see the ribbon? I am in love with using ribbon this way! Just loop it around and secure the ends with a glue dot behind the flower. It's a great way to incorporate the honey color again without being too heavy--plus the loopy ribbon is uber trendy right now!

Of course, chevrons are still on-trend and the Chevron background stamp looks so regal when clear embossed. Such shine! Such pizzazz! Love it!

Of course it wouldn't be a Canopy card without a completed inside so I stamped some more flowers in the challenge colors (stamping off once with the Calypso Coral) and added another sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes.

I hope you've enjoyed my card today. I just know you will enjoy what the rest of the Design Team is sharing with you. Be sure to pop by their blogs and say "hi"! We would love for you to play along with us at The Paper Players before our color challenge closes on Friday, August 15th at Noon (PST).
Thanks for stopping by, friends!

The Paper Players Design Team

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Another Amazing Birthday display sample + amazing Big Shot deals!

The convention display board samples just keep on comin'...I've got another one with the Amazing Birthday stamp set. Have you seen the colors in the Sweet Sadie washi tape? Oh my, lovely indeed! Our sweet little rescue pup is named Sadie so I couldn't NOT buy this washi tape, right?

The colors in the washi tape made for a sweet birthday card: Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe and Basic Black. I think this one is just trendy and girlie enough to be suitable for a tween girl, don't you think? I love the way the happy, happy birthday sentiment fits perfectly inside the Word Bubbles Framelits. Isn't that cute? And, while we're talking about Framelits, have you seen the crazy Big Shot bundles on sale this month?

WOW, when you buy a Big Shot during the month of August you get any one of a select stamp set + matching Framelits bundle for FREE! That's a huge savings! And if you already have a Big Shot, then select bundles are 15% off--including the Word Bubbles framelits I used on today's card. Check out the flyer for all the details: Big Shot & Bundles through August 31st!

Thanks for stopping by today, friends!

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Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Ridiculously Amazing Paper Players {PP207}

My Paper Players friends are ridiculously amazing and today we get to reveal this week's challenge--a theme challenge, hosted by the always super Sandy...Cute as a Button!

I have to admit, I don't use buttons very often and SU doesn't have any current button stamps so I was a little stumped....until I got the idea to use the [retired] Sweet Buttons embosslit in combination with the Large Polka Dot embossing folder and, well...I got a little carried away:

But isn't it cute??!! All those little embossed buttons just make me smile...well, after my arm got a rest from all the cranks through the Big Shot, then I could smile! :-) The sentiment was stamped 5 times in 4 different inks (Crushed Curry, Memento Tuxedo Black, Pool Party & Real Red) as well as embossed with silver embossing powder. Each sentiment was trimmed down and the angled ends were just cut free-hand. Most of them match up...sorta :-)

The piercing on the inside of last week's card was such a big hit that I thought it could work again. The sentiment was inked up with markers and I used the Eclectic Piercing Pack to punch a banner around the image. A good way to add detail without a lot of fuss!

This is one of my display stamper cards that inspired the layout for today's card. A totally different look when designed in bright colors.

Be sure to check out the rest of the inspiration from our ridiculously amazing Design Team. We hope you'll join in the fun before our challenge closes on Friday, August 8th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by today!