Canopy Crafts: number of years

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Sunday, February 25, 2018

An Amazing Number of Years! PP382

Hi friends! This week the my sensational friend, Sandy, has an equally sensational sketch challenge for us at The Paper Players...take a look:

Isn't that a good one?! I could see so many possibilities with this from heavily layered to clean and detailed....I landed somewhere in the middle with today's card:

A colleague at work hits a milestone birthday next week so I wanted to make an extra special card for her. She loves flowers so I loaded her up with as many as I could fit on this card! I wanted to keep the focus on the center panel and chose to stamp a panel of mock paper on the bottom layer. For this I used my favorite Birthday Blooms set in a tone-on-tone pattern on the Pool Party base. Next, is a striped layer from some retired paper--Blushing Bride is such a pretty pair to Pool Party isn't it?

The Number of Years stamp set and coordinating Large Numbers Framelits makes for a fun way to highlight more of this pretty retired DSP by using the negative space left behind from the die-cut. Once I cut out the numbers, I stamped through the shape with the number in Blushing Bride ink. What you can't see in the photo is that I brushed Wink of Stella onto the numbers for some pretty sparkle! The Pool Party ruffled ribbon is long since retired but like some many things in my craft room likes to come out and play. Here it served as a nice base for the Mossy Meadow "amazing" Celebrate You thinlit from the current Sale-a-Bration catalog.

The Number of Years stamp set has a bunch of great sentiments like the one I used here on the inside. I mean who wouldn't feel better about their 50th birthday after a sentiment like this one, right?!

I hope you enjoyed my card today....be sure to check out my teammates at The Paper Players for even more fabulous inspiration. We hope you will play along with us before the challenge closes on Friday, March 2nd at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by, friends!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Elizabeth Stewart

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Watercolor of Greetings PP304

Hi all and welcome to Clean-and-Simple week at The Paper Players! The lovely Jaydee is our hostess this week and she's challenged us to create a CAS design with watercolor:

I knew right away what I wanted to do so I got out my Aqua Painter and an assortment of inks and went to work:

This is my favorite kind of watercoloring--just swishes of color across a page. I'm not very good at intricate, detailed watercoloring so I love this technique. I always start out with a base layer of colors that are lighter than the colors I use as the final layer. Here So Saffron, Blushing Bride and Pool Party made my first layer of color. When that was dry (or after I dried it with the heat tool!) I added the second layer of deeper colors: Crushed Curry, Sweet Sugarplum and Bermuda Bay.

I die-cut the sentiment from my watercolor panel with the Greetings Thinlits. Next, I cut several more sentiments from thick Whisper White cardstock. I think I cut about 5 more. Each one was glued to the next with the Fine Tip Glue Pen and lastly topped with my watercolored piece. Once I fit the stacked sentiment in place, secured with more Fine Tip Glue, I had a dimensional sentiment that looks like it's floating on the surface.

I had so much fun, that I made another one with the same colors but oriented a diferent way. This is the fun part about watercolor--no two are alike!

Stacked another sentiment in the same fashion...

...and finished off the inside of both using a swoosh fom the Number of Years set (coz it was laying on my desk!) and a sentiment from One Big Meaning.

I hope you enjoyed my cards today. Be sure to check out my friends on the Design Team for some fabulous inspiration. Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Number of Years Birthday PP290

Hiya friends and welcome to another week at The Paper Players! Our dear friend across the pond, Joanne, has a happy and bright color challenge for us:

I know sometimes a 4 color challenge might be,well...challenging...but I started by looking at the Soft sky color as a background for the other three. While I don't always want to go with the first thing that pops in my mind, this time...I did!

To me, these colors were crying out for flowers and leaves with a soft background. I needed a card for a friend in my stamp club who recently turned 72 years young so the Number of Years photopolymer set and Large Number Framelits were the answer! I used the birthday girl's numbers to stamp a subtle background with matching Soft Sky ink. Then layered some retired DSP in polka dot Pumpkin Pie to ground my focal point.

I stamped the leaves and stems in Mossy Meadow ink and used Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie for the various flowers. The numbers were stamped in Veramark ink and heat embossed with gold powder. Love how evenly the framelits cut those numbers! To coordinate with the gold numbers, I tucked a snippet of gold foil doily underneath both sides of the circle. I backed it with some retired ruffled ribbon. It's Strawberry Slush, not Melon Mambo, but close enough that I thought it worked.

Soft Sky was used for the stems on the inside so the background stamping doesn't compete with the Mossy Meadow sentiment. The flowers were stamped off once to keep the whole color scheme light and keep the sentiment the focal point.

I hope you've enjoyed my card today....pop over to The Paper Players and check out the rest of the design team's inspiration. I hope you will join in the fun before our challenge closes on Friday, April 15th at Noon (PST).

The Paper Players Design Team