From the Heart for As You See It Challenges

Well, Happy Friday to you!  It's time for another As You See It Challenge!  This week's challenge is one I've been looking forward to ever since Amanda passed on the designs!  I absolutely LOVE the colours:

What do you think?  Doesn't this make you want to run to your craft room and get stampin'?

All excited, I headed to the newly cleaned Craft Cave and...I couldn't figure out what stamp to use.  It seems like these are Christmas colours, but when I looked for a suitable Christmas stamp, I couldn't find the right one.  They are all so small and outlines.  This palette seems to call for large and solid for some reason.  Once I let go of Christmas, I began to see some other possibilities, but I settled on the From My Heart stamp set. It's an older one.  I still have it in the old wood mount stamp case. (I should really change them all over.)  Anyway, I chose the saying by James Taylor:  The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time.  Once you hit 60, I'm not sure if that's still possible, but I'm trying!

• I wanted to give the Cherry Cobbler and the Baked Brown Sugar starring roles to accentuate the warmth of this colour scheme, but the silver gives a contrasting dazzle as an accent, in the narrow border behind the Cherry Cobbler panel, in the ribbon and in the word, Enjoying.
• The DSP in the front is from the Lullaby Designer Series Paper.  I started out with just the plain Cherry Cobbler behind the sentiment, but when I added the Baked Brown Sugar stripes, I knew I had the right look.
• I stamped the sentiment three times on Very Vanilla card stock, once in Baked Brown Sugar, once in Cherry Cobbler and once in Versamark ink and then had Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder added to it and heat set it.  The Baked Brown Sugar version was die cut with the framelit from Apothecary Accents framelits.  The red version, I carefully hand snipped the scrollwork in the middle, and for the silver version, I just hand-snipped the box around the word "Enjoying".  I layered them on the card, over the Cherry Cobbler 1/2" Seam Binding ribbon and the Silver 1/8" ribbon.
• It was all too nicey-nicey symmetrical when I put it all together and badly needed one more element on the bottom right.  I tried several things but finally ended up with a heart from the Essentials Wooden Elements and I stamped a little heart on it in Cherry Cobbler, from the Holiday Home stamp set, and added a Rhinestone Basic Jewel off center.

Remember my post yesterday, when I had trouble translating an idea onto paper here?  I told you I was going to add pearls coloured with the Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities and show you the results.  I just felt the card needed something else to pull it together, so here is the before photo:

And here is the updated card with the pearls:

Which do you like better?

Thanks for dropping by, and have a great weekend!  Maybe pop on over to As You See It Challenges and give this week's challenge a try!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

From My Heart [132007]	From My Heart Clear-Mount Stamp Set [126557]	Holiday Home Photopolymer Stamp Set [135095]	Lullaby Designer Series Paper [133695]	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314]
Baked Brown Sugar 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131296]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2X11 Card Stock [119685]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2X11 Card Stock [101650]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin' Pad [131174]
Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [126966]	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131]	Cherry Cobbler 1/2 Inch Seam Binding Ribbon [120992]	Silver 1/8" Ribbon [132137]	Essentials Wooden Elements [132258]
Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents [119246]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]	Paper Snips [103579]	Apothecary Accents Framelits Dies [127003]
Big Shot Die-Cut Machine [113439]

Quick and Cute with Starburst Sayings

I am planning a new class this spring in response to a survey that I gave my customers at Christmas.  They indicated they would be interested in a Quick and Cute class.  So the first one is next week:  three cute and simple cards, an hour and a half and you're done!  I designed this card for the class, and used my new Starburst Sayings stamp set along with the matching framelits and some Kaleidoscope Design Series paper.  Here's how it turned out:

• Turns out I love the bold and colourful Kaleidoscope DSP (Design Series Paper).  Who knew?  I thought it was all bold geometric patterns, but there are some like these polka dots, that are a little softer in design, although the colours are just as bold.  I think my eye is caught by the bold patterns that define a set and I totally miss the less showy ones.  Then I'm always surprised by them when I finally buy a pack.  Has anyone else experienced that?
• I cut the back panels from one 5" x 4" piece of DSP.  I wanted the outside panels to be bigger than the middle one to give some variety to the background.  I just flipped the middle panel to the inside design to be different.

• The sentiment is from the Starburst Sayings Stamp Set, which originally has the starburst around it stamped.  I die cut the middle with the 1 1/2" diameter Circles Collection framelit, then used the Starburst Framelit that coordinates with that stamp to cut a bigger starburst from Basic Black Cardstock.  I adhered the stamped image to the center of it.
• Using the 2 1/2" Circle punch, I cut a piece of Crushed Curry and using the next largest framelit, die cut an Island Indigo starburst.  I adhered the Crushed Curry circle to the Island Indigo starburst, then using dimenionals, I popped the smaller starburst on the larger one.  I also used dimensionals to add the whole medallion onto the card base.
• The final touch was adding the two little wooden chevrons from the Essentials Wooden Elements package.  They offset the symmetry of the card, which made it more eye-pleasing.

Thanks for dropping by my blog today.  I hope you're having a great weekend.  To purchase any of these supplies, visit my On-Line store by clicking on the links below, or give a call or email.

• Starburst Sayings [english, wood]
• Starburst Sayings [english, clear]
• Kaleidoscope Designer Series Paper
• Island Indigo 8-1/2 X 11 Card Stock
• Crushed Curry 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock
• Basic Black 8-1/2X11 Card Stock
• Whisper White 8-1/2X11 Card Stock
• Starburst Framelits Dies
• Circles Collection Framelits Dies
• 2-1/2 Inch Circle Punch
• Essentials Wooden Elements
• Stampin' Dimensionals
• Mini Glue Dots