Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Never Too Much Happy for Dynamic Duos

Do you think it's possible to have too much happiness?  I'm not sure about that.  Could it be that too much happiness would stop feeling like happiness and that we can only know happiness when we've experienced sadness? Kind of like the lyrics for Let Her Go by Passenger:

             

That's kind of depressing to think about, so I'm going to go with the stamp I used on my card for Dynamic Duos Challenge # 94,


You Can Never Have Too Much Happy!

  • I used a Whisper White card base which I only do rarely, but it was the right neutral to use in this case, with the Basic Black and Crushed Curry, which I used instead of the retired More Mustard.
  • I wanted a light, springy feel and the use of negative space, so I got out my Bitty Butterfly punch and some Crushed Curry DSP from two collections, Eastern Elegance, and the Regals Designer Series Paper Stack.  
  • The sentiment is from the Yippee Skippee stamp set and it fits perfectly on one of the Banner Framelits with room for a little black butterfly, the positive space to one of my negative spaces here.
  • To get the Basic Black squares with the butterfly shape so perfectly centered, it's much easier to punch the butterfly first and then use one of the Squares Collection framelits and center the butterfly in the middle of it, then die cut using the Big Shot. (And the Magnetic Platform, which holds the framelit firmly in place while you're rolling it through the Big Shot.)
  • To showcase the negative space, each black square was mounted with dimensionals on a square of Crushed Curry DSP, so the shadows cast would accentuate the punched hole.
  • When mounting the squares on the card base, it is much easier to adhere the top and bottom square  a set distance from the edges and then center the third square between them.
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2 comments :

  1. Anything with black combo is always stunning and the butterflies makes it more beautiful.

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  2. I'd like to think we could never have too much happiness! It's a beautiful thought! Your card is lovely! Thanks for playing along with us this week at Dynamic Duos.

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