Canopy Crafts: mingle all the way

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Fancy Holiday Cheer {PP225}

Hi all, I am so excited to share today's card, and the inspiration behind it, with you! This week I am the hostess over at The Paper Players where it's a Black Tie Theme Challenge. The challenge is to make holiday projects that are fancy!

I had the idea for this card in my head ever since I saw this fabulous card with marquee style letters on the amazing Alison Okamitsu's blog. I knew I wanted to use this style of letters with the confetti stamp from Dotty Angles so I got to work....

...and I'm pleased to say it came out very much like what I saw in my mind's eye! Oh this one is fancy, isn't it?! Gold AND silver heat embossing, loads of pearls, gold foil paper and vellum all adorning black cardstock. And the base of the card? Yeah, that's brushed silver cardstock...you guessed it, fancy!

And that banner? I didn't have a curved banner stamp or die so I made one with two different sized Oval Framelits, snipped off the ends, and popped it up on dimensionals. Easy but, you guessed it....fancy! And look close at the picture above. See where I cut apart the sentiment? That's so I could fit the large marquee style letters on the banner in between the two sections of the sentiment. Mounted on the same color cardstock, you can't even see it except through a zoomed camera lens. How 'bout those letters? Cut with the Little Letters Framelits from Gold Foil cardstock and then adorned by hand with tiny pearls. Love!

I hope that you will love this challenge; I know I did. And judging by the fabulous projects from the rest of the Design Team, I think they did too. Please be sure to check out all of them this week and say goodbye to our wonderful group of Guest Designers leaving us after this challenge. It has been great fun working with them and I'm going to miss their creativity, energy and contributions to our team! Andrea, Claire, Joanne, Laurie and Yapha....THANK YOU!

The Paper Players Design Team

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Fall Fest in a Box {PP216}

Last week our daughter asked me if this was the first weekend in October. When I said yes she ~~said~~ squealed "Yay, that means we can put up the Halloween decorations!!" Over at at The Paper Players we're putting up the Halloween decorations too with Jaydee's fun theme challenge:

Around here we love Halloween. I love the decorations, the costumes and our new favorite family tradition--decorating the trunk of our car for Trunk or Treat at our daughter's school. I love making the trunk into a special scene for the kids, really going over the top. With that in mind for this challenge, I really wanted to make something special....and I thought the card in a box technique would be perfect. What do you think?

Eeek! Isn't it cute?! I must confess though--between the designer series paper and the stamps with coordinating framelits, this baby came together easy-peasy! There are many tutorials out there but I found this one the easiest to follow. I made the "box" out of Basic Black cardstock and covered it with the adorable candy corn paper from the Motley Monsters DSP.

I've been on a kick with the moons lately and made another one for my box card. This time I added a little shadow effect to the moon with a stamp from Work of Art. The tone-on-tone stamping really makes it look like shadows across the moon doesn't it? A couple "cute" bats from Freaky Friends just add to the fun.

Love the faces that come with the pumpkins in the Fall Fest stamp set. I inked the pumpkins in Tangerine Tango and used a Q-tip to wipe the ink off just the stem then inked the stem with an Old Olive marker. A little Linen Thread bow and Fun Fall framelit leaf dress up these pumpkins nicely.

Lastly, you need a close-up of the ghosts. Did you notice a little extra shine to them? That's because they were embossed on Silver Foil paper! Just that little bit of shine peeking through makes a big difference.

Speaking of making a difference, check out the amazing creations from the rest of the Design Team. We hope you'll be inspired to play along with us before our challenge closes on Friday, October 10th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by today!