Warm Wishes--#tgifc286

The TGIF Challenges team has an inspiration challenge for us this week.  Inspiration challenges are fun because you can take any element of the inspiration piece out and focus on that element for your project--or you can focus on two elements or three or the piece as a whole.  I pulled out two pieces of the inspiration piece for my project today:  the wood grain background and the circle motif:

My idea was to create a wreath hanging from the side of a doorway entrance into a house.  I wanted to use this wood siding photographic paper from the In Good Taste designer series paper pack (#152494)--so I couldn't put my wreath on a door!!!  I layered the paper on Gray Granite card stock with a Gray Granite card base--house colors! To soften the "siding" a bit, I lightly sponged Whisper White craft ink over the paper.

 

For my circle element, the wreath, I used a Gold Hoop Embellishment (#152474).  I got these early in the new annual catalog year but have shied away from using them.  I wasn't sure how to attach things to them.  Turns out--it was easy.  I used a thin stream of Multipurpose Liquid Glue along the back of the curved leaf element (from Forever Flourishes Dies (#152714), die cut in Garden Green), carefully layered it over the metal hoop and let it dry.  Then I continued to layer the other pieces on using Multipurpose Liquid Glue for the gold balls [die cut out of Brushed Metallic card stock (#153524) using the Poinsettia Dies (#153522)].  I used Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the two Real Red Poinsettias.  They were die cut using the Poinsettia dies, then two were layered together and centered with Gold Glitter enamel dots (#152155).  The wreath was attached to the card front using glue dots, adhered under the foliage.  I looped a piece of Gray Granite shimmer ribbon (#152463) around the hoop to "hang" the wreath.

The greeting is from Poinsettia Petals stamp set (#153475).  It was stamped in Early Espresso on to a 5/8" x 3" piece of  Real Red card stock.  I punched the fish tail ends using the Banners Pick a Punch (#153608).  I used my bone folder to create a bit of a wave in the banner, then attached it with one dimensional on one end and two stacked dimensionals on the other end. 

See how others were inspired by this piece over at the TGIF Challenges blog here.

Thanks for stopping by!

--Sara Nell 

Good Things in Basic Black & Rococo Rose--#tgifc278

TGIF Challenges has an inspiration challenge for us this week.  Because I don't use this color combination very often, I pulled the pink and black from the inspiration photo to inspire my card:

My starting point was the gesso and pink paper pattern from the In Good Taste designer series paper pack (#152494).  I embossed this with the Old World Paper 3D embossing folder (#153200) to add some texture to the background.  The greeting from Tasteful Touches stamp set (#152562) was stamped in VersaMark on Basic Black card stock, embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder and then die cut with a frame die from Tasteful Labels Dies (#152886).

The inspiration photo had some foliage and flowers, so I added foliage die cut out of Basic Black, Rococo Rose and Silver Foil using dies from the Forever Flourishing Dies (#152714).  Rhinestone Basic Jewels, a layer of Basic Black and a card base of Rococo Rose complete the card.

It is fun to see the different inspiration each TGIF Challenges design team member and each challenger drew from this inspiration photo for their entries.  Check them all out at the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Hope you have a great week!

--Sara Nell

  

Life is Better--#tgifc274

My card today is all about texture:  a textured designer series paper pattern, texture in the placement of the paper, texture in the glimmer paper and texture with heat embossing.

I started this card using scrap pieces from this designer series paper pattern from the In Good Taste designer series paper pack (#152494).  I had several different widths of scraps so I decided to use them (plus a couple of other pieces I cut to fill up my space) in a random stripe pattern.  I arranged and adhered the pieces on Whisper White card stock, then sponged the edges of the piece with Night of Navy ink.

A floral image from Bloom & Grow stamp set (#149229) was stamped twice on the striped piece, once right side up and once upside down, in VersaMark ink and then heat embossed with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder.  

The greeting from Peaceful Moments stamp set (#151595) was stamped in VersaMark on Night of Navy and also heat embossed in gold.  Both ends of the Night of Navy greeting piece and the slightly larger Gold Glimmer paper piece (also scraps), were punched out using the new Banners Pick a Punch (#153608/available beginning 8/4/2020).  The striped piece was layered over Gold Glimmer Paper and then on a Night of Navy card base.

Find more projects made using paper scraps on this week's TGIF Challenges product challenge entry here.

Have fun using up your paper scraps!!!

--Sara Nell 

  

  

To a Friend--#tgifc272

There's a fun sketch challenge this week over at TGIF Challenges.  I don't believe I've ever made a card with a feature like this one before.  I had fun with it and have a tip for you on how to use a Rectangle Stitched die (#151820) and a Tasteful Label die (#152886) together.

As I thought about my project, I kept going back to the idea of using the featured part of the sketch kind of like a wrap for flowers.  I wasn't "feeling" my floral stamp sets this morning.  So, instead, I made a bouquet of leaves using the Forever Fern stamp set (#152559) and the coordinating Forever Flourishing dies (#152714).  I flipped the sketch 90 degrees for my card:

I started with a background pattern from the In Good Taste designer series paper pack (#152494) which was layered on a piece of Soft Suede card stock.  Then I stamped leaf images in Shaded Spruce, Just Jade and Mint Macaron inks on Whisper White card stock.  These were die cut and other die images were die cut out of Crumb Cake card stock. These were all arranged on the background after I glued my wrap pieces on the card. 

My wrap was created with two different dies because I couldn't find another die that I liked for the wrap I was envisioning. I wanted a stitched edge wrap with a pointed end so I could punch a hole in each end and thread linen thread through each hole.  I found my pointed end in the Tasteful Labels die set and then found a stitched rectangle die with the same width.  I die cut two rectangles first and then placed my Tasteful Label die as shown in the photo on the rectangle.  I rolled the die sandwich into the die cutting machine just until I heard a click and backed it out of the machine:

It was very easy to find the right position for the second 

die because the two dies are the same width.

After deciding on how to position my pieces, I folded the ends around to  the back of my Soft Suede layer and adhered them to the back with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.  I used an 1/8" hole punch to create the hole to thread two pieces of linen thread through each end.

The greeting was stamped in Shaded Spruce and die cut using another Tasteful Label die.  Some gold metallic pearls and a Just Jade card base complete the card.  

You'll see some fun and beautiful projects using this challenge sketch over at the TGIF Challenges Blog here.

Have a great week!  Hope you got your taxes filed--I nearly forgot!!!

--Sara Nell