Summer Birthday By The Tide

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By the Tide

This card says New England to me!  I have never been to Cape Cod yet this card seems like it would be perfect for a summer lobster boil on The Cape.  I created this card for a colleague in my office who celebrated his birthday last Saturday.  He seemed to like it.

The color scheme is Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla and Baked Brown Sugar.  The Night of Navy stripes were created wtih 3/4" x 4 1/4" strips and placed on a standard A2 card base. The outer border of the focal point was 2 1/4" x 4" and the inside was 1/4" smaller all around.

The background was stamped in Baked Brown Sugar after stamping off once on my Stampin' Up Grid Paper, this gives you a faded look.  I stamped the gorgeous lobster in Cherry Cobbler.  I love how crisp he looks!  Four candy dots make the focal point look anchored into the background.

By the tide close up

The new Thick Bakers Twine in Baked Brown Sugar adds more texture and looks like a ships rope.  This is where I hung my sentiment.

And here is the inside of the card:

By teh tide inside

My StampinMojo came from a card I saw on Pinterest.  The link leads to an Etsy page called Paperdipity.  I want to acknowledge this is not a completely original design.

Thanks for stopping by!

Michelle

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So Very Grateful for YOU

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Happy Thursday,the gateway to the weekend! And it is time for another Pals Paper Arts Chellange!  This week we have a sketch challenge by Margaret Moody.

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It is a great sketch. Now let's see where my StampinMojo took me …

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Let's get to the details

My card base is Calypso Coral card stock cut for a 41/4" x 5 1/2" card.  Then I added a piece of Designer Series Paper from the Park Lane Collection.  The banner was cut with the third (starting from the smallest) Banner Framelit in Calypso Coral.

The sentiment is from the Let Your Hair Down Hostess Set.  This is a great stamp set. This can be yours FREE with an order of $150.00 or more.

I stamped the image twice, once in Stazon Black and once in Old Olive.  Then I snipped the Grateful section out of the Old Olive image and added it to the Black image that had been punched out with the 1 3/8" Punch.  Then the entire piece was glued to a piece of Old Olive card stock punched out with the 1 3/4" Circle Punch.

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A few Stampin Dimensionals and candy dots are the finishing touches.

While this was not a difficult card to create I like the results.  Check out the supplies used below.

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Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle

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Flower Patch Fusion

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The Fusion Card Challenge is always a fun challenge, making you stretch your creativity.  Here is the challenge:

June5 - FusionThe parade of bright colors drew me to participate in this challenge.  I pulled out my new Flower Patch Stamp Set and coordinating Flower Fair Framelit dies for this card (save 15% by purchasing them as a bundle).  The card base is 3" x 6".  My envelope punch board allows me to create cards in any size because I know I can create an envelope for it! Here is the result:

Fusion entry

The centers of the flowers are silver however the photograph is not doing them justice.  The colors are as follows from the top:  Strawberry Slush, Melon Mambo, Rose Red, Tangelo Twist, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Daffodil Delight. The shade changes are sutble which creates the flow of the card.

Beneath the flowers are three strips of Washi tape from the 2013 Holiday catalog.  On retrospect, I probably should have used the newsprint from the new Typeset DSP. 

While it is difficult to see in the photo, I scored two lines on the left side of the card and then added the Crushed Curry 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon which sits between the lines.

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This photo captures the silver on the flowers better.  This was a fun challenge.  I hope you will consider trying it out for yourself!

Michelle

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Check out the Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge this week:

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While this color challenge lends itself to a patriotic design I chose another path because I couldn't wait to ink up the new Bloom for You stamp.

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The base of the card is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" and then the Night of Navy square is 3 1/4" x 3 1/4".  The DSP is from the recently retired Fresh Prints DSP Paper Stack and measures 3" x 3" (substitute with the Brights DSP Paper stack in Real Red). Then I inked up the Bloom for You stamp in Real Red ink and punched it out with the coordinating new Fun Flower Punch. Then I stamped the same flower in Night of Navy and used the 7/8" Scallop Circle to punch out the center only.

StampinMojo Tip - this stamp comes as a wood stamp only.  Before putting the stamp on the wood base, take a piece of scrap paper and punch out a Fun Flower to create a "guide" for the proper placement of the stamp on your wood block.  You need to coordinate the punch and the stamp so when you stamp it is easy to align the punch without needing to cut around the flower to line up the stamp (similar to the Flower Shop stamp set).  I added a small up arrow on my block so I know which way to stamp the flower to align the punch.  

The sentiment comes from So Very Happy.

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Thanks for stopping by and if you have any questions on aligning your Bloom for You stamp on the block send me an email!

Michelle

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