Symbols of Fortune Suite for As You See It Challenge #266

Welcome back to As You See It Challenges for 2022! This is our first challenge of the new year and I was excited to use some new products for this sketch challenge created by team member LeAnne. Playing some more with the Symbols of Fortune Suite, my favourite from the new 2022 Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue. 

Here's the sketch for the challenge:

What a great sketch to work from! The circle element can be any shape! Here's a closer look at how mine turned out:

• On my Basic White Thick card base, I added a layer of Evening Evergreen topped by two diagonal cuts of the Symbols of Fortune Specialty Designer Series Paper of two different patterns. So many beauties to choose from!!
• I inked the flowering shrub image from the Crane of Fortune stamp set in Calypso Coral. Using a Qtip, I removed the ink from the leaf areas and used the Evening Evergreen Stampin' Write Marker to add colour to those areas. I "huffed" on the stamp to remoisten the ink and stamped the image on Basic White cardstock, then die cut it using the Layering Circles die that best fit the image. 
• I used a Blending Brush to add some Soft Succulent ink blended around the edges, then ran the edges in Versamark ink and dipped them in Gold Embossing Powder. Using a brush to clear off any excess except for the rim, I heat set it, the adhered the circle element right to the card front.
• The sentiment, also from the Crane of Fortune stamp set, was embossed in White on Soft Succulent card stock and glued to the card front as shown.
• I fussy cut a crane from one of the designs of the Symbols of Fortune Specialty Designer Series Paper and added it using dimensionals to the circle element, over the flowering shrub. I die cut some foliage using the Good Fortune dies and used Glue Dots to attach them to the front of the crane.
• The last step is to add some Polished Dots in both colours to the project.

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Product List

Crane Of Fortune Cling Stamp Set (English) [157654] $32.00	Crane Of Fortune Bundle (English) [157663] $63.75	Symbols Of Fortune 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [157652] $20.00	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229] $11.25	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25
Evening Evergreen 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155574] $12.00	Soft Succulent 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155776] $12.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $24.00	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $24.00
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Soft Succulent Classic Stampin' Pad [155778] $10.25	2021–2023 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [155639] $20.00	Polished Dots [158134] $10.25	Blending Brushes [153611] $16.25
Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Good Fortune Dies [157662] $39.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $48.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $163.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50

More Layering Diorama Dies for As You See It Recipe Challenge

 It's TGIF everyone and one of the good things about every other Friday is that we get to play a brand new As You See It Challenge. This week it's a Recipe for a Happy Birthday and here is the challenge banner as cooked up by fellow Design Team member Joanne!

This week I've been playing with the Layering Diorama Dies, so I thought I'd continue using them for this challenge....that, and all my Design Team Members aced me on the gorgeous florals this time, so I did a 180 degees and designed a masculine birthday card.

• This time I only had 3 layers and the bottom was a Basic White panel that I blended with ink. I used a taped off horizon line to get it really straight and a piece of Post It Note die cut in a circle to mask where the setting sun should be, then sponged both the ocean and the sky before I realized that I was going to need some patterned paper somewhere on the card. So I had to replace my beautifully blended ocean with some Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper. The greens blended with gold veins really actually works well for the ocean as the gold works as the reflected sunlight!
• The blended sky is a mix of Bumble Bee, Flirty Flamingo, Highland Heather and Night of Navy, applied with Blending Brushes. The sun, after the mask is removed, was filled in with a bit of Daffodil Delight.
• I used Night of Navy and Sahara Sand as the layers die cut with the Layering Diorama dies. I added die cuts of seaweed on the Sahara Sand using the Smooth Sailing dies and more Expressions in Ink DSP.
• On the Night of Navy I added a Lighthouse, stamped in Night of Navy then embossed with Clear Embossing Powder to fulfill the Heat Embossing element of the challenge. The sailboat on the back layer is also heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder along with the sentiment from Timeless Tropical.

• The die cuts are the lighthouse, the sailboat, the sentiment label, the seaweed and the ship's wheel. The lighthouse and sailboat were also coloured in using Light Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends, Gray Granite Stampin' Blends and So Saffron Stampin' Blends.
• The ribbon or twine is a sailor's knot at the bottom, tied using White Baker's Twine and Linen Thread.

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Product List

Sailing Home Cling Stamp Set [149457] $33.00	Timeless Tropical Cling Stamp Set (English) [151497] $31.00	Expressions In Ink 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155464] $20.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867] $12.00	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121043] $12.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $10.25	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $24.00	Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad [153116] $10.25	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $10.25
Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [147094] $10.25	Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $12.00	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886] $12.00	So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154905] $12.00
Linen Thread [104199] $6.75	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475] $15.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Blending Brushes [153611] $16.25	Smooth Sailing Dies [149576] $44.00
Layering Diorama Dies [155565] $39.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $48.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50