Canopy Crafts: clean-and-simple

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Sunday, May 20, 2018

A Clean and Simple Corner Garden - PP394

Hiya friends, and welcome to another week with The Paper Players! This week my talented friend, Laurie is our hostess and she's asked us to created a Clean-and-Simple card featuring Blooms:

I knew right away what I was going to do but the hardest part was figuring out which color to use...

In the end, I decided that the white embossed blooms looked the prettiest on the dark green. Have you heard about the SU Color Revamp? Every once in awhile, SU refreshes their color palette by letting go of some colors and bringing in new ones. This year, I was thrilled to see the return of several retired favorites, including Mossy Meadow featured on today's card! My card is as simple as can be...just one layer heat embossed with one of my favorite [retired] stamps, Corner Garden. The sentiment is also heat embossed and comes from a current set, Beautiful Bouquet.

I left room on the inside for a hand-written note but stamped the garden again on Whisper White in Mossy Meadow ink. That's it for me....clean-and-simple! Be sure to check out all the inspiration from the rest of the team at The Paper Players:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Elizabeth Stewart

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Tomorrows as Happy as Today - PP353

Hi friends, and welcome to another week with The Paper Players! My sweet friend, Claire, is our hostess with the mostess this week for a Clean-and-Simple challenge:

Summer fun in the water, woohoo! That's actually where I am this weekend--spending time with family at the beach. I never really enjoyed the beach growing up but 24 years living in Florida has turned me into a beach-lovin' gal!

My card represents my favorite thing to do at the beach....sit. LOL. As a busy mom, I don't really sit much. Even at work, I'm constantly up and walking around. Beach time means sitting in a sling chair just like this one from the Colorful Seasons stamp set and relaxing. The only thing that's missing is a book--my second favorite thing to do at the beach--but I didn't have a small enough book stamp!

Since this is a Clean-and-Simple challenge, there isn't much to explain. Just some simple watercoloring and stamping. My beach scene is painted with a blend of many, many colors including Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Peekaboo Peach and Calypso Coral. Early Espresso was used for the chair base and sentiment. The only tricky thing is the chair itself....I stamped it in Calypso Coral on thick Whisper White and fussy-cut it out so it would be a solid color over the watercolor background.

I'm keeping it short today--gotta get back outside! Wherever you are, I hope you're finding a little fun in the sun this weekend! Be sure to check out the rest of the design team inspiration over at The Paper Players. Maybe you will be inspired to play along with us before the challenge closes on Friday, July 21st at Noon. Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Woodgrain Flourishing Leaves PP317

So, I have a thing about leaves...the colors, the textures, the patterns, the amazing symmetry of nature. This week I am hostess at The Paper Players and we are celebrating Leaves with a Clean-and-Simple challenge:

It seems as though Clean-and-Simple is all I've got time for lately so this challenge was perfect for another busy week. Here's my creation:

The hardest part about making this card was deciding the colors and the spacing of the squares! The card is small notecard sized--just 3.5" x 5"--so the squares needed to be proportional. I used the 1.25" square punch to pop out squares of Island Indigo, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry and Always Artichoke. When I ran them through the Big Shot with the Woodgrain embossing folder, I laid them out as I wanted them on the card. This allowed the embossed lines to continue seamlessly across the 4 panels. The leaf stem was cut from Copper Foil paper with a Flourish Thinlit and some Copper Thread wound behind it. The only stamping is the Early Espresso sentiment from the coordinating Flourishing Phrases stamp set.

I have a bit more stamping to show you, albeit not really clean-and-simple but does feature leaves:

You might remember the Halloween candles I shared with you in this post. This time I made a fall version that I gave to a friend as a hostess gift for the SU party she booked with me. I heat embossed some images from the Vintage Leaves set onto vellum cardstock using copper embossing powder and clear embossing powder with Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry inks.

Here's a view of the vellum before I wrapped it around the candle. After all the leaves were stamped and embossed, I stamped the back with the [retired] Dictionary stamp in Crumb Cake. I am really pleased with how it turned out and my hostess loved it! I'll have to make a few more in other fall colors, starting to get a little addicted to making them!

So there you have it....two leaf projects...one clean-and-simple and the other, well...not! Do go check out the inspiration from my friends on the design team at The Paper Players. We hope you will join us before the challenge closes on Friday, October 21st at Non (PST). Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team