Paper Sunshine Project: Berry Burst

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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Digital Retreat May #2 - Sea of Texture

Tracy had the Facebook Inkspiration color challenge due so we decided to go for it with Berry Burst, Garden Green, Blackberry Bliss and Melon Mambo. These colors typically lend themselves to flowers - so we decided to challenge ourselves & NOT do flowers. Instead we chose a set we both had not used since last March when we crafted for the last time at my old house in Washington, Sea of Texture.

We both really struggled with this set and took mots of the time we had that day in the creation process. Tracy was trying to replicate the tunnel card she created last time without going back and revisiting the original. I actually had headed down an alternate path but then at the last minute decided to ditch that one and start over! The top one is the final result while the bottom one is the one I gave up on. Looking back, the one I ditched was not sooo bad. A sentiment & ribbon - may be able to save it (If I hadn't stolen a bunch of the pieces for the top card)!

UPDATE! I was chosen as a Top 5 selection for the Colour INKspiration Challenges Facebook group! Alas, I did not win - but how exciting to get chosen as a first time entry to be a Top 5 card!

~Enjoy

Here is Tracy's card

Here is my first attempt

Inspiration colors

Winner!!! Well, Top 5 Nominated:

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Spring Retreat - Simply Sketched

I simply fell in love with Simply Sketched that I borrowed from my friend Shannon. Most of these are CASEd from Pinterest, but I love how beautiful every card turned out!

~Enjoy!

My friend Shannon has a ribbon scrap box with all kinds of unique ribbons from past years and she only has these tiny scraps leftover in the box. Luckily she had this beautiful striped velvet that matched this card perfectly, here is the inspiration card from Pinterest.

Here is the inspiration card, I substituted out what I had on hand while traveling. I just adore the colors of this card and its simplicity.

I loved the doily background of the inspiration card, but since I did not have that I used some mottled blue background that I brought with me and an oval die to frame the bird. The leaves are from the Wonderful Floral Thinlits die set.

I was having so much fun with the Simply Sketched set, I had to make an original using the blue & brown cards above as inspiration! This card uses Berry Burst as the background embossed with the Layered Leaves embossing folder.

Stampin' Up! products used:

Simply Sketched Stamp Set
Wonderful Floral Thinlits
Blueberry Bushel
Crumb Cake
Pear Pizzazz
Soft Suede
Balmy Blue
Berry Burst

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Digital Retreat March #4

Project #4 for the day is one more color challenge (we love color challenges) and stamp challenge. We used the Wonderful Romance stamp set and the Facebook Colour INKspiration Challenge #51. The colors were: Berry Burst, Mango Melody, Highland Heather and Pear Pizzazz.

I struggled with this card a lot! I find when I do this, I really need to get back to a cleaner palette and add more white. Overall the final result was not my favorite, but I could give it to someone and feel comfortable.

While Tracy was finishing up her card, I decided to play with just making a really abstract version of this with just dabbing an inked sponge onto the flower stamp and I really like the result a lot better!

~Enjoy!

Tracy's cheated a little on her card by adding a background of blue and when I protested, she quickly rectified it and replaced the blue for a white background. She also submitted the white to the Stampin' Up! Only Challenges - #219 - Coloring & was selected as a Top 3 card! Way to go Tracy! Don't forget to check out her blog!

Stampin' Up! products used:

Wonderful Romance stamp set
Berry Burst
Mango Melody
Highland Heather
Pear Pizzazz

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Stampin' Up! Convention Swap #2

Season's Greetings

Stampin' Up! hosted it's 30th year birthday convention in Orlando in November. It was said that there would be up to 10,000 people there from every corner of the globe, so I just had to make some swaps! Here is the process for the second set of 100.

This card was so fun to make, it has lots of technique and that is always what I try to provide at a swap. The background it doused with starbursts from the Night in Bethlehem set. Then a layer of corrugated cardstock. The sentiment layer is made with the Snowflake Sentiments set and edged with a good dosing of shimmer paste and a trusty popsicle stick. Topping it off with rhinestones and a flashy ribbon made it all come together!

At the end of every year - I try to start downsizing my stash of In-Colors that will be leaving with in the next 6 months. Last year I used it for my New Years cards - this year I decided to use it for my second set of 100 swaps, so here they are!
~Enjoy