Canopy Crafts: crazy for you

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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Bravo, Our Shining Star - PP395

Hi friends! My sweet pal, LeAnne has an awesome sketch for us this week at The Paper Players...take a look:

Firstly, I have to apologize for the quality of these photos....I was in a hurry to photograph and schedule this post before leaving for a weekend [birthday!] trip so I had to use indoor lighting with my phone--gah! Anyway, LeAnne's awesome sketch was a perfect chance to use the big script on this retired set called Bravo:

I can't believe it....our daughter graduates from 8th grade on Tuesday! Oh my, I'm getting weepy just thinking about it...but so happy for all the opportunities that await her in high school. So this card is for her...and I didn't worry about retired products or colors or anything, just created with her in mind. Done in colorful pastels, with a little bit of sparkle and personalization, I think she will love it.

First the sparkle...some shiny silver thread, some Wink of Stella on the "you" and a silver punched star because...well, she's our shining star!

Here's the personalized part...I used the rotary alphabet stamp to create a repeated sentiment with the acronym of her school and graduation year...MMS 2018. I didn't want the circle to cover up the larger sentiment so I tucked it behind the main panel. A little different than the sketch but I don't think LeAnne will mind that I took a little creative license. ;-)

The inside features another retired favorite...Word Play...I just love the scale and mixed font of this sentiment so I couldn't let it go. Good thing to because it's perfect for graduation cards! I'm sure I'll dig it out in another 4 years for her high school graduation....YIKES!

Be sure to pop over to The Paper Players and check out all the inspiration from my teammates--they do lovely work! Maybe you will be inspired to join us before the challenge ends on Friday, June 1st at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Elizabeth Stewart

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Just Be YOU PP384

Hi friends, and welcome to another week with The Paper Players! Our sweet friend across the pond, Joanne, has a lovely color challenge for us this week:

I have to admit, I was a little daunted by this color....PINK! It's not a shade I use very often so I was a little flummoxed until I remembered this awesome set I've only used a couple times...Fabulous Flamingo...and my card was born:

I started with the idea of a row of flamingos--all in the same shade to as a way to demonstrate their conformity. THe last flamingo is strutting her stuff all decked out with all three steps of stamps in this set! The base flamingo is Powder Pink, the second layer--the shading--is what else--Flirty Flamingo, of course! The accent lines are obviously stamped in Black Memento ink.

I didn't want to introduce another color--staying true to the "any shade of pink" challenge--so I used a base of Smoky Slate and stamped a few palm fronds in the same color ink to frame the focal point.

The sentiment had to be just right--something that emphasized the individuality of the recipient--I really wanted to use the die-cut YOU from the SAB Amazing You set. Once that was die-cut in black, I went searching through my stash for just the right companion sentiment. I found it in "Just Be" from the retired Crazy For You stamp set--perfect!

I'm not sure when I will have occasion for this card so I left the inside sentiment free but stamped another flamingo framed with palm fronds. This really is such a cool set--love that shading on the flamingo!

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team inspiration over at The Paper Players. I hope you will be inspired to join us before our challenge closes on Friday, March 16th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Elizabeth Stewart

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Crazy About You, Deer: PP275

Hiya friends! We are winding things down at The Paper Players with our final challenge of 2015. After this week, we will take a little Paper Players break to enjoy the holidays. We will be back on January 3rd with a new challenge and a new set of Guest Designers! Unfortunately, that means we say goodbye to our current crew of Guest Designers: Amy, Jodi & Lisa. We are sad to see them go but it has been wonderful working with all of them--thanks ladies!

Lovely LeAnne is our hostess this week with a beautiful trio of traditional colors...

Our daughter celebrated her birthday yesterday and I used this week's challenge as the inspiration for her card:

I had so much fun making this card! I knew our daughter would love the sweet little deer in the Home for Christmas DSP and the other patterns in the pack fit the color challenge. I decided to use two deer to represent my husband and myself. Even though the deer actually had a Real Red bow, I used the lightest shade of a Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities marker (remember those?) to change the color to match our challenge.

Because this is her golden birthday--she turned 12 on December 12th--I added lots of gold accents with the gold thread and gold vellum paper. You can't see it in the photo but the deer also have a brush of golden Wink of Stella on their backs.

Maybe you can see that I also brushed it onto the die-cut thinlit that coordinates with the Crazy For You stamp set. You might also notice that the die-cut is pretty thick. That's four layers of die-cut glued together. To make it easy, I added a piece of adhesive sheet paper to the back of my Cherry Cobbler cardstock before I ran it through the Big Shot. Peel the backing off and just stacked each one to build up a nice substantial weight. I think it really stands out more than the single layer.

One more fussy-cut deer that I thought might be just like our daughter jumping for joy on her birthday. She was having so much fun that she kicked up some golden stardust too!

I hope you'll kick up some action in your craft space this week and join us for one last 2015 challenge at The Paper Players. The rest of the Design Team have some beautiful inspiration for you so be sure to check it out before the challenge closes on Friday, December 18th at Noon (PST). I'll be taking a bit of a bloggy break until the new year so here's wishing you a Happy Holiday and a peaceful New Year!

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Amy Koenders

Jodi McKinney

Lisa Elton

Sunday, April 5, 2015

A Die-Cut Work of Art {PP239}

Hi there friends and Happy Easter! Even though it's a holiday, it's still Sunday and that means another challenge at The Paper Players. This week, the fabulous Jaydee has a theme challenge for us:

I have to admit...this one stumped me for a little while. Hmmm, what do to with a die-cut? I like to try and show something a bit different in my projects for the Design Team so I thought on it a bit. When I saw the bright and happy colors this week at the colourQ, I knew just what to do. First the colors:

and here's my card:

I had a lot of fun making this one! I began with a 3.75" x 5" piece of Whisper White that I stamped with the Work of Art stamp set in the challenge colors (substituting Coastal Cabana for Cool Caribbean which I don't own). I placed the "happy" framelit right over my stamped image and cut it out. Next, I cut out several more "happy" pieces and stacked them all together. Tiny drops of Tombow multi-adhesive helped build my stack.

A little tip...before I ran the framelit through my Big Shot, I used Fast Fuse to glue two scrap pieces of Whisper White together and then cut out the word. Two layers of cardstock gave me a nice thick shape similar to coaster board. I only had to run a few more passes of the double-layer cardstock through to get the desired result. I ended up with 4 layers of double thickness to which I added the piece I cut from the stamped image on top.

With my stack complete, I carefully fit it back into the negative space from the die-cut. I had the little left-over bits as well and popped those back into their appropriate spots so that there wouldn't be any negative space left for the black base layer to show through.

I'm sure that the rest of the Design Team have some fabulous works of art to share with you...please stop by The Paper Players and take a look. I hope I've inspired you to look at your dies and framelits in a new way and will consider joining us at The Paper Players before the challenge closes on Friday, April 10th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by today!
edited 4/5/15: at the suggestion of my teammate, Joanne James, I am also linking my card up to the sketch challenge at Create with Connie & Mary. I always love playing along with them and my card matches this week's sketch pretty closely--I must have been channeling the CCMC team!