Canopy Crafts: climbing orchids

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Climbing Orchids for the Paper Players PP401

Hi friends--WOW what a turnout we had these last two weeks for our 400th challenge over at The Paper Players. Randomly selected winners of all 41 prizes will be announced on Wednesday July 18th - so be sure to check back. In the meantime, our sweet friend Joanne has a lovely color challenge for us this week:

Flowers were all my mind could come up with for these colors so I pulled out one I was so glad to see return in this year's SU catalog...Climbing Orchid:

I have to admit that I haven't purchased many of the new SU colors so I had to make do with what's already in my craft room...Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder [retired], and Granny Apple Green [new!]. I think they're a pretty close match. The main panel of Wisteria Wonder DSP was trimmed with a stitched border die from My Favorite Things. I found the little strip of Melon Mambo cardstock in my scrap bag and it was already embossed! I think it's a long ago retired SU folder called Lattice.

The orchids were heat embossed in gold on thick whisper white cardstock and colored using a sponge dauber and Melon Mambo ink. The center piece is stamped in Wisteria Wonder and them and even tinier image is heat embossed in gold. I can't believe there is a die tiny enough to cut out these little centers! The gold stem holding the orchids is cut from Gold Foil paper using the branch die from Seasonal Layers Thinlit dies. I used Granny Apple Green for the leaves and die cut them with the coordinating dies. One thing I did purchase right away from the new catalog are these Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins. There are 5 colors in the pack and 50 of each color--that's a lot of sequins!

There's also a lot of inspiration waiting for you over at The Paper Players! Check it out and come play along before our challenge ends on Friday, July 20th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by today!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Elizabeth Stewart

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Vellum Orchids for a Sketch PP386

Hi there friends! Thanks for stopping by for another week with my teammies at The Paper Players. This week, the fabulously Crafty Claire has an awesome sketch challenge for us:

I'm not really sure where the inspiration for this came from except that I wanted to use a stamp set that had not been inked in awhile and I wanted to think a little outside the sketch. Instead of using the circle in the sketch as the focal point for a stamp set, I used it as a landing spot for my focal image. I really like elements that "fall off" the edge--the edge of a die cut or the edge of an image. So here, my Climbing Orchid falls off the edge of the Stitched Shape element.

There are three orchid pieces to this flower, each one inked in Versamark on cardstock vellum, heat embossed in gold, and cut with the coordinating Thinlits. Usually vellum shows any adhesives but here I was able to hide both glue dots and dimensionals with each layer of the flower. It was only after I glued everything down that I realized I was supposed to have ribbon element around the top of the card front...d'oh! I hope Claire will forgive me!

With a specific placement for a sentiment, the sketch gives us freedom put it anywhere--love that! I had a lot of elements going on here and didn't want to add another element for the sentiment. With that in mind, I did some tone-on-tone stamping with Berry Burst ink on the same color cardstock stitched circle. It's a subtle way to incorporated the sentiment without extra bulk!

Was anybody else excited to see THICK Very Vanilla cardstock in the latest catalog? I was so happy--love it! I didn't need to add an extra panel to the inside because the base is thick enough but with all the layers on the front, it still felt a little whimpy on the inside. So, I cut a 4 x 5.25" panel and inked up my design for the inside. Since I used the Seasonal Layers thinlit to cut the branch on the front of the card, I used this fabulous sentiment from that coordinating Colorful Seasons set on the inside. Such a great sentiment and useful for so many occasions!

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out the rest of the inspiration over at The Paper Players where my teammates also had fun with Claire's sketch. Perhaps you'll be inspired to play along with us before the challenge closes on Friday, March 30th at Noon (PST). Have a great week!