This is one of the cards that we made at my Stamp Club meeting last week. When I was designing the projects for this month's meeting I knew that I wanted to create a pocket style card using Stampin' Up's Medium Size Evelopes in Crumb Cake and that I also wanted to use Basic Black and the rich Cherry Cobbler but was stumped when it came to picking that last accent colour! Soooo, I pulled out my Handy Dandy Colour Coach and -Voila! Baja Breeze was the perfect pick!
I was inspired to use the Colour Coach by SU!'s Ceo and Co-founder Shelli Gardner as she is currently running a Creative Challenge to use it. I must admit that it is definately a tool I will be referring to over and over again.
I was also very excited to show everyone how fun stenciling can be on your paper crafting projects. The flower image is a beautiful stencil from the Elegant Trio Stencil set in the Definately Decorative Brouchure. I used Sponge Daubers and Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler Classic Inks to create the colours in the flower. Then stamped the Gratitude Definition from Define Your Life Stamp set on top of the stencil so only parts of the words would show through. (this was a technique that Shelli herself had demonstrated when she was doing the workshop of a lifetime events.)
The design itself was based on a Envelope card that was demonstrated at Convention this past July. Of course I had to totally change up the design and the only thing that is the same is using the Medium Envelope for the pocket,lol. I sealed the envelope and just cut off a sliver to create the pocket. The out side was decorated with a Basic Black panel the was dry embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper folder. Oh and I finally broke into my package of Antique Brads- LOVE THEM! The "4 you" is from TinyTags and I stamped it on one of the super cute mini Vintage Tags. Can you spot something NEW on this card?! The little snip of "ribbon" is the new Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding from the upcoming Holiday Mini. Can you saw A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Yes I said typed Seam Binding-there is Fabric coming out in the Mini!!!! Now I AM NOT a sewer at all, but wait until you see what can be created with it-trust me you will want some.
Well have a great day and happy stampin',
Jenn is posting again!!! Nice job gf!
Posted by: kim sinclair | 08/30/2010 at 10:44 AM