Showing posts with label Wreath. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wreath. Show all posts

Sunday, September 15, 2019

CASE the Catalog: Taking Inspiration from A Card in the Holiday Catalog

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you the card I made CASEing the Brightly Gleaming Note Card on page 30 of the 2019 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog.  If you have never heard the term CASE before it means Copy And Share Everything or Copy And Selectively Edit.  The Stampin' Up! catalogs are filled with inspiration and tons of ideas; that are great CASEing material.  When you CASE a card you don't have to copy it exactly, you can simply take inspiration from it.  That's what I did today, I took inspiration from the sketch or design of the card and the use of the metallic elements.  Here's a look at my card and then I will share with you the card that inspired it.

Here's my the card that I drew my inspiration from.  This little Christmas note card features the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set and Night of Navy, Very Vanilla and Mossy Meadow cardstock along with some copper foil sheets, and the Brightly Gleaming Designer Series Paper.  It also features one of the new Stars Designer Elements, one of the Brightly Gleaming Foil Elements, and a copper embossed holly leaf and berries as the main focal image.
image by Stampin' Up! 
For my card today I used the sketch from the card, but instead of designer series paper I used the Subtles 3d embossing folder to create texture on the card.  My card  base is a piece of Thick Whisper White cut at 5 x 7 scored at 3 1/2.  The embossed piece of cardstock was cut at 3 x 5 1/2.
I kept with the metallic theme of the card but instead of copper I went with silver. I love the look of silver with just about any other color.  But this time I paired it with Whisper White, and Smoky Slate.  After embossing the 3 x 5 1/2 piece of whisper white I took some Delicata Shimmery Silver ink and a sponge dauber and created a little metallic color on the textured whisper white.  I started out going around in a circle and then came back and change direction to blend out any lines.  I will say that the Delicata ink is a little warming in tone than the other silver pieces on my card.

I then added a 1/2" strip of silver foil behind the textured piece and attached the embossed piece to my card base.  Next I stamped the wreath from Seasonal Wreaths Stamp Set in Delicata silver ink and then coated it with silver embossing powder and heat set it.  I used the matching dies and cut it out.  I repeated this process with the large leaf in the same way but on a piece of Smoky Slate cardstock.  I also embossed and cut out one of the small leaf dies in silver foil.  Then the debate came do I color in the wreath with a little watercolor or do I leave it simple and let everything work together.   I went with the keep it nice and simple and elegant looking.

Once everything was cut out with their matching die it was time to start laying everything out.  So I decided on the placement and keep it just like the sketch.  Large element in the upper third of the card and the other elements coming off it toward the fold.  I attached the silver embossed Fall wreath with a little multipurpose liquid glue.  I then took the silver thread and wrapped it around my fingers a few times to make a nest of loops that I would adhere to the card.  If you notice back up in the reference photo the concept artist used linen thread for the loops.  I attached my loops with a little snail placed where the large leave would go. I attached the loops into the snail making sure to get the open ends in the adhesive.  I then added the large silver embossed leaf on three dimensionals over the loops.  But, the dimensionals not only act as a new level for the leaves but it helps to secure the loops in place as well.
To finish off my little elegant note card I added the silver foil embossed leaf to the larger leaf with a dimensional and added a silver heat embossed sentiment on a little whisper white cardstock.  I also decided to pop that up as well with a few dimensionals.  I went with a sentiment that reads Happy Everything from Seasonal Wreath Stamp Set.  I thought it was a perfect sentiment because you could use it for so many different occasions.  It could go for a wedding or well anything really.
That finished off my card I hope that you like my version of the Brightly Gleaming note card from the Holiday Catalog and I hope that you got a few little tips on how to use your catalogs for inspiration.  Your catalogs are so much more then just a book of products but is filled with tons and tons of inspiration that you can use to create your projects.
Happy Stampin' 
Rick 

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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Holiday Catalog Sneak Peek & Color Inspiration for my Card Today


Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you the second post for my Finding Color Inspiration Series and a little Sneak Peek at one of my Favorite Stamp Sets from the New 2019 Holiday Catalog.  If you missed the first post in this new bi-weekly series you can click here to view that post and where I found Color Inspiration for my Cuckoo For You Friendship Card.  This week I am going to share with you a Christmas Card and where I found the most unlikely source for it's color inspiration.  You can find color inspiration anywhere sometimes you just have to look outside and you can come up with thousands of ideas for color combinations.

One of my favorite treats during the Summer Months is watermelons.  Yes, I love watermelons, I love the sweet juicy taste and the feeling of the cool summer sun filled juices running down my face when I take a big luscious bite.  I love the bright sun rich color from the outside to the point when you cut into the largest piece of fruit you can find on the vine, and that deep rich red begins to be exposed to your longing sun beat eyes.  Once you crack it open and you can see the wet juices glistening in the rays of bright white light from the Summers sun's warm golden rays on a hot dry southern summer afternoon.    Here's a look at the card I created using Holiday Catalog Products inspired by of all things a Watermelon.  I know hard to believe that my little Christmas Card here was inspired by one of Summers favorite fruits. 

The Inspiration Process:  


This was how I started my journey looking for the inspiration for this card.  I went outside and and found my inspiration in the Watermelon Fields.  Once I had my color inspiration then I had to gather up all the things that I thought I would want to use in creating my card.  One of the things that I pulled was the Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper from the 2019 Holiday Catalog.  I pulled this paper because the colors reminded me of the outside and inside of this favorite Summertime treat.  With it's succulent Garden Greens and luscious Real Red Toile Patterns, the colors just screamed watermelons to me.  I also love how each piece of paper has the same pattern in both of these colors; on one side you have the pattern in Real Red and a light shade of Very Vanilla and on the other other the same pattern in Garden Green and a light shade of Very Vanilla.  All three of these colors reminded me of the outside and inside of that sweet sweet fruit of the Southern watermelon fields from my childhood.  It didn't hurt that the Toile pattern also is a very country pattern that brings up feelings of being on a farm on a hot southern summers day.

With the designer series paper chosen it wasn't hard to pull the other elements of the card together.  I knew I wanted to use some Garden Green, Real Red, and Soft Sea foam cardstock and matching inks on my card but I just wasn't sure where yet.  I also needed something to represent the black of the seeds that you find in most of the watermelons from a Southern Garden.  So I decided that I would use the Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad and some of the 1/2" Basic Black Satin Ribbon.
So with all the products finalized it was time to start designing this beautiful Christmas Card.  I Started out with my card base from Garden Green Cardstock (4 1/4 x 11 scored at 5 1/2).  Once I had that cut and folded I cut my Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper down to size (4 x 5 1/4).  I picked a pattern that was filled with foliage in Real Red.  I used this to represent the meat of the watermelon since it was on the outside of the card and one of the main things that you would see.  Since Garden Green was my dominate color on the card and Real Red being my secondary color of the design.  I then added in a mat of Soft Sea foam Cardstock (5 3/8 x 4 1/8) to represent the Rhine of the garden green flesh of the watermelon.   

I then added the Black satin ribbon to the bottom of the card and tied a nice pretty knot for interest.  Basic Black and Soft Sea foam became my accent colors.  In design you always have a dominate color, a secondary color and one or two accent colors.  These color hues help to guide the eyes around your project, and stop on the important parts plus they usually add interest and color harmony as well.  Now, since we have all the supporting players in place its time for the focal image; that element on your project that draws the viewers eyes to your message.

For my card today that was the wreath that I stamped from the Tidings All Around Stamp Set.  Which by the way is part of a cost saving bundle and the matching dies coordinates with another stamp set in the Holiday catalog that's perfect for fall and other seasons as well.  I stamped the large wreath from the stamp set in both Soft Sea Foam ink and then Rock n Rolled (if you want to see how to do this technique you can click here and see how I did the Rock N Roll Technique on another project) it in Garden Green Ink.  Once I had the image stamped the way I wanted it I used the matching dies and cut out the wreath.  I used the piece from the middle of the die cut and stamped my greeting in Tuxedo Black ink and just pieced it back into the center with a little adhesive.  I then popped up the wreath with a few Stampin' Dimensionals to add a layer to the focal image.  To add a little more sparkle to the card (not that the satin ribbon didn't add enough shine) I added a few of the Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots (#150433) in Real Red around the wreath to represent holly berries and a few of the Garden Green ones around the sentiment to help draw your eye there as well.   These Glitter Enamel Dots add just enough sparkle to the card that it draws your attention to the main focal image but doesn't take away from it either.

Pin Worthy Inspiration: 


I have created a pin worthy inspiration graphic for you to pin to your Color Inspiration Board on Pinterest, that will help you with your own unlikely Christmas Card inspiration this year.  I added all the elements that you would need to find your inspiration easily with this pin.  So feel free to pin away.

Thanks for dropping by today and I hope that this has helped you find a little inspiration in the unexpected and has taught you to think outside the box with looking for color inspiration for your projects.  When your raised in the South these are some of the things you remember doing as a child on a hot summer afternoon, you remember the details and feelings of walking through that hot field of leafy green searching for the biggest fattest juiciest watermelon you can find.  Waiting with anticipation for it to be cracked open and getting to taste that suite juice for the very first time during the summers blistering heat.  So when searching for inspiration for color combinations for your cards remember your childhood and the adventures you took, take a walk in your memories and go outside and find retrace those childhood footprints you are sure to find the color inspiration you're looking for.
Happy Stampin' 
Rick 


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