Love What You Do for As You See It Challenge #195

My attention wanders back to our beautiful Annual catalogue these days, back to all the beautiful stamp sets and Designer Series Paper and coordinating dies and embellishments that barely get enough time to focus on them before it's time to move on to the Holiday Catalogue and then the Occasions Catalogue! I have so much of the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper left and the next As You See It Challenge seemed like the perfect opportunity to put it to work! And then I could also use the lovely images in the Love What You Do stamp set for the focal image. Here is the Challenge sketch:

Quite an unusual sketch, but still straight forward and perfect for using panels of DSP. And there are no lovelier samples of DSP than the pearlized designs from the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper.  Here's how I made use of them:

• All three pieces of Designer Series Paper are from the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper, but only 1 of them shows the pearlized side and that's the middle one. I think you can see the flower petals reflecting the light. Each panel is backed with Basic Black cardstock to give it more definition.
• The stamped image is from the Love What You Do stamp set. I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then used the "filler" stamp to add the colour to each blossom, with Tranquil Tide (stamped off once), Mint Macaron, and Mint Macaron stamped off once.
• The stamped image was die cut using the Stitched Shapes Framelits. It is backed with a scallop oval die cut using the Layering Ovals Framelits. The sentiment, from Itty Bitty Greetings, punched using the Classic Label Punch is attached to the back of this using a Glue Dot.
• Adhesive is added to the back of the image panel and the ribbon is attached: Tranquil Tide 3/8" Mini-Ruffled Ribbon and Old Olive 1/8" Sheer Ribbon.
• Share What You Love Artisan Pearls embellish the card.

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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

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set [148042] $27.00	Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146667] $49.00	Itty Bitty Greetings Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146664] $65.00	Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper [146926] $36.75	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $10.50
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $11.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [147146] $10.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] $10.25
Tranquil Tide 3/8" (1 Cm) Mini Ruffled Ribbon [146948] $11.00	Old Olive 1/8" Sheer Ribbon [144171] $8.25	Share What You Love Artisan Pearls [146927] $8.25	Classic Label Punch [141491] $24.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $41.00
Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] $48.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Very Vintage for The Paper Player's 400th Challenge

Well, I'm really going back to my stamping roots for today's sample! When I started stamping, I took up the hobby because I fell in love with the vintage style of cards that were all the rage back then. I thought that style might just be appropriate for my card today for two reasons. Reason one is because I am entering it in The Paper Player's current challenge, which just happens to be their 400th Challenge!! How amazing is that?? Here's the banner:

 You can see that it is a theme challenge with Celebration as the theme, so I chose birthday as the celebration I was going to feature in my card. Reason two is that I just got a new Host Stamp Set with some of my Stampin' Rewards, called Very Vintage, and I wanted to take it out for a test stamp. So here is what I was able to throw together with it - sponged and distressed edges and all!

• The essence of the vintage style is muted colours, lots of sponging around the edges with Soft Suede or Crumb Cake ink, using Very Vanilla card stock instead of Whisper White, distressing and curling the edges, and choosing images that are realistic with a lot of hatch mark shading.
• The colours I chose to use were Mint Macaron and So Saffron along with Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla. They are very muted and work perfectly with this style.
• The background paper is from the Share What You Love Specialty DSP. It has the perfect qualities for vintage cards, small repetitive patterns, dulled neutral colour, almost monotone, and looks good when sponged with Soft Suede ink.
• I used the Hexagon Dynamic Embossing Folder to make the Honeycomb design in the background. I also sponged it to make the design show up better, and dull the colour a little more. I tore pieces from it to look like a piece of honeycomb torn from a hive.
• All the stamped images and the sentiment are from the Very Vintage. There are no matching dies, so I fussy cut the bees and the panel that the one bee is stamped in.

• I just happened to still have my old distressing tool that I used for all the edges of the panels on the card front.
• The pieces of ribbon are the 1/2" Lace Trim, also sponged with a bit of Soft Suede, and a short piece of Crumb Cake 3/8" Classic Weave Ribbon, and that about does it!

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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

Very Vintage Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146801] $18.00	Very Vintage Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146798] $24.00	Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper [146926] $36.75	Mint Macaron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138337] $11.50	So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105118] $11.50
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650] $13.25	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] $10.25	Very Vanilla 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Lace Trim [141672] $9.50	Crumb Cake 3/8" Classic Weave Ribbon [144162] $9.50
Stampin' Distress Tool [127562] $6.95	Stamping Sponges [141337] $4.75	Classic Label Punch [141491] $24.00	Bone Folder [102300] $9.00	Paper Snips Scissors [103579] $13.50
Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143231] $12.25	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25