Oh, my goodness, I so rarely have the chance to enter one challenge, but today I get to enter two! I'm so excited! I just got home from visiting my youngest daughter for a week along with her hubby and my two grandsons, Parker and Jackson! But, after arriving home at 5 pm and unpacking and cleaning up after my cats, who had been mostly on their own for a week, except for my neighbour who came in to feed them, I still had a card to make and an order to prepare for delivery! It was so nice to have a couple of challenges to inspire me.
The first challenge was the Global Design Project Challenge #191 and their theme challenge was Bees, Birds and Butterflies:
So, I decided to use one of the new sets that comes in the 2019-20 Annual Catalogue, (which you will be able to purchase from in 3 more sleeps), *Free As A Bird. This cling stamp set is part of the *Bird Ballad Suite and I actually used some of the *Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper on my card as well.
*These products will be available in the 2019 - 2020 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, starting June 4, 2019.
The next challenge I am entering is a sketch challenge from The Paper Players #443:
This sketch was created by my fellow As You See It Design Team member, LeAnne Pugliese, so I was excited and challenged by it!
Here's what I came up with:
- On a base of Basic Gray, I added a panel of Crumb Cake embossed with the Layered Leaves 3D Embossing Folder. Something we just learned from Stampin' Up! is that the new 3D Embossing Folders by our new manufacturer will be quite a bit thinner than the old ones and will require a new Embossing plate to make up that difference in thickness. It will be $13.50 and will be available in early June.
- A strip of *Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper in Petal Pink is added to the left side of the card front.
- I stamped the single bird image in Memento ink on some Whisper White along with a sprig of leaves, the three flowers and the sentiment, all from the Free As A Bird stamp set.
- I stamped the same bird image and leaf sprig image on to a Silicone Craft sheet in Memento ink and then pressed the Whisper White cardstock on top of it and pressed well all over top of the images. The ink transferred to the cardstock, but the image is reversed.
- All the images were coloured in using Stampin' Blends Combos in the following colours: Smoky Slate, Petal Pink, Mossy Meadow, and Calypso Coral. The images were then all fussy cut, except for the sentiment which was punched out with the new *Timeless Label Punch.
- I repunched the ends of the sentiment so that it would be shorter and then could be matted with a full-sized *Timeless Label Punch in Petal Pink.
- All the images were arrange and adhered on the card front using glue or Mini Stampin' Dimensionals. I used some retiring **Share What You Love Artisan Pearls, plus some regular Pearl Basic Jewels, coloured with Stampin' Blends in Petal Pink and Calypso Coral for the finishing embellishments.
*These products will be available in the 2019 - 2020 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, starting June 4, 2019.
**These products will be retiring and no longer available in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue starting June 4, 2019.
**These products will be retiring and no longer available in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue starting June 4, 2019.
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Discounts from the 2018-19 Annual Catalogue: Click HERE to download.
Discounts from the 2019 Occasions Catalogue: Click HERE to download.
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Product List
*These products will be available in the 2019 - 2020 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue, starting June 4, 2019.
**These products will be retiring and no longer available in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue starting June 4, 2019.
So pretty! I love that sentiment too. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Players!
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