It’s Sunday…and what a great day to play with The Paper Players! Anne Marie has a quartet of colors for us to work with this week: Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry. I reached for one of my favorite stamps from the Spring Catalog, Just Thinking. What was going to be a quick and easy card, turned into a richly colored confection of layers. Enjoy!
The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips: Layering
This finished card measures 4-1/4″ wide by 5-1/2″ long.
- Anchor your layers! A Paper Doily serves as the foundation for this card’s central design element. The Crumb Cake Paper Tag, from the Pop-Up Posies Designer Kit, is followed by a Baja Breeze Oval embossed with the Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. The Lacy Brocade pattern provides an elegant contrast against the Geometric Island Indigo pattern from the Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper collection.
- Work those patterns! Don’t be afraid to pair up different styles. The Rich Razzleberry “Fan” pattern, also from Summer Smooches, looks great with the Island Indigo pattern. The key is separating the two with a small Baja Breeze border, punched with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch. And although I wanted to put a little pearl on each one of those little white dots, I restrained myself!
- Ribbon flower! A Crumb Cake Seam Binding flower tops everything off. They are so easy to make. I simply knotted one end of a piece of seam binding, stuck it onto a small adhesive circle, and twisted and wrapped my way around until the circle was completely covered. The end of the seam binding was then tucked underneath.
At first I was overwhelmed with what to do with these colors, but once I pulled out card stocks and patterns, the process became easier. What do you think of today’s card? Won’t you let me know in your comment today? Of course, if you have any questions about the cards I create or the techniques I use, I am only an email away. Until next time…
(In case you missed my post earlier this week, Muffy and I are in Crown Point, IN today. What a long road trip this will have been! We head back to Iowa late this afternoon.)
Stamp Set: Just Thinking; Inks: VersaMark, Soft Suede; Designer Series Paper: Summer Smooches; Card Stock: Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, Baja Breeze; Misc. Paper: Paper Doilies, Pop-Up Daises Designer Kit; Tools: Big Shot, Oval Framelits Collection, Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Heat Tool, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Paper Snips, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet; Glitz and Glam: Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Basic Pearls;
