Canopy Crafts: one big meaning

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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Bold Butterfly Window PP345

Hey there, friends! I am excited to be the hostess this week at The Paper Players with a fun Clean-and Simple challenge...Butterflies!

With my crazy busy life, Clean-and-Simple seems to be the way my crafting is trending these days. I suspect it's that way for a lot of people right?! While I like Clean-and-Simple style, I still try to add small details that make the design intriguing....something that makes you say "how did she do that?"

Super clean design--just some card stock strips and a simple sentiment but the interesting part is the window sheet butterfly! First I adhered some cardstock strips to a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock. Then, I die cut the butterfly from this piece with the Bold Butterfly Framelits. Next, the butterfly wings were clear embossed onto a piece of Window Sheet using the Watercolor Wings stamp set. The Bold Butterfly Framelits were used again to die cut a butterfly from my card base. Once I had my three pieces (card base, window sheet & panel), I started building my layers. The Window Sheet is adhered to the card base with glue dots and the cardstock panel it adhered over the Window Sheet with dimensionals. Basically creating a sandwich of card base, window sheet, and main panel. The last step for the front was the sentiment in Black Archival ink from One Big Meaning.

The inside looked a little plain through the clear window sheet so I lined up and stamped the solid butterfly from Watercolor Wings on the inside. I used a new ink color--Powder Pink--part of the new In Color palette coming from Stampin' Up in June! From left to right: Berry Burst, Fresh Fig, Lemon Lime Twist, Powder Pink and Tranquil Tide. Aren't they pretty?

Here you have a better view of the clear embossed butterfly wings from the inside. Isn't that a cool look?! Inside sentiment placement can be a little tricky with a clear hole in the middle of the card but the spot on the inside left works perfectly! There's still enough room to write a note around the butterfly on the right. So there you have it...Clean-and-Simple, Detail Style!

I hope you enjoyed today's card. Be sure to pop over and check out the rest of the lovely butterflies from my design team buddies at The Paper Players. Maybe you'll be inspired to play along with us before our challenge closes on Friday, May 26th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Nance Leedy

Valentyna Komisarenko

Deanne

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, July 26, 2015

A Sketch for Vintage Leaves {PP255}

Hiya friends, and welcome to another week with The Paper Players! This week the always fabulous Sandy has a great sketch challenge for us:

I told you it was a good one, right?! Love it Sandy--thank you! In addition to needing to design a card for this sketch, I also needed a card for stamp club that featured new stamps and product. It may be a bit early for fall colors and themes but I just love the detail in the Vintage Leaves set:

Oh my word, these leaves are gorgeous! And, you know what makes it even greater? It's photopolymer--clear--AND there are matching framelits! What more could we ask for? Well how about some amazing detail:

Isn't that pretty? To achieve the look of colored leaves without actual coloring, I stamped on cardstock slightly lighter than my ink color. The smallest leaf was stamped in Delightful Dijon on So Saffron cardstock. The medium leaf was stamped in Mossy Meadow on Old Olive CS and the largest one is Blackberry Bliss ink on Perfect Plum cardstock. I crumpled and curled the leaves (with a bone folder) to give them a worn look.

So, have you seen this new Corrugated Paper? One word--fabulous. No more using the sleeves from our Starbucks cups--this stuff is lighter weight and the ribs are smaller and closer together. That makes it much more receptive to stamping as I've done here with the Watercolor Wash background and Gorgeous Grunge splatters stamps in Soft Suede. Did I mention that the Corrugated Paper comes in a pack of Kraft AND Whisper White? Lovely.

Just in case you had any doubts about the beautiful detail of these leaves, I'll show you the inside where they are featured more prominently on Very Vanilla cardstock. And that sentiment? One Big Meaning--yeah, you need it. All the thank you sentiments you could ever need. Yep, a must-have.

It's also a must-have to stop by and see all the fabulous creations from the rest of The Paper Players design team. I'm so fortunate to work with this great group of gals! I hope you will take up Sandy's sketch challenge; I can't wait to see what you create! Just be sure to join us before the challenge ends on Friday, July 31st at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by, friends!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Claire Broadwater
Jaydee
Joanne James
Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy
Sandy Mathis

Amy Koenders
Jodi McKinney
Lisa Elton

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Wild About Flowers for a Sketch {PP251}

Hi friends, did you miss me?! I took a little bloggy break as there were so many activities to wind up the school year and usher in the summer travel season. I am back this week as hostess over at The Paper Players where I am sharing a sketch I designed:

I've had a small box of stuff I pre-ordered back in May just SITTING in my craft room for WEEKS. Whaaat? Yes, sadly I said "weeks". On top of being super busy, I found my mojo slipping away and didn't really feel like getting stampy. I struggled to make this card even with my own sketch. I persevered though and while I don't love it....hopefully I am over the mojo hump.

I love the flowers in the new set, Wild About Flowers. It's a two step stamp so the flowers can be a different color than the stems but here I've stamped them each in the same color. I drew my colors from the new Bohemian DSP and used Delightful Dijon, Bermuda Bay and Blackberry Bliss.

The colors are quite bold and using a lot of white in the background helps tones them down while simultaneously making them POP! The new set, One Big Meaning was a must-have for all the great thank you sentiments it contains.

Do pop over to The Paper Players and check out all the fabulous inspiration from the rest of the design team. This is our last week with Guest Designers Debbie, Karren and Shannon and I will be sad to see them go. Ladies, it has been a pleasure working with you and getting to know you better. Thank you for all your hard work and for sharing your creativity with us!

That's it for me today, friends...thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach