Colorful Seasons CASE

Hi there

I’ve just realised it’s been almost two weeks since I did a blog post – I’ve been busy in my craft room making swaps for our team training which we had yesterday.  It was a great day catching up with fellow Creative Inkers’ and having a play with some of the new products in the upcoming Holiday Catalogue.  I’ll share my swap with you later this week.

Last weekend my Sister-In-Law had a special milestone birthday.  I wanted the card to be a special one but I was struggling to come up with something.  On one of the Facebook groups I belong to I saw a beautiful card that would be perfect so I CASE’d it – with a few changes.  Thank you to Narelle Farrugia for your inspiration.

The original card was in the peach tones so I changed it to the purple tones – colours more suited to my Sister-In-Law.

The stamp sets I used were Colorful Seasons, Picture Perfect Birthday and Timeless Textures.  Colorful Seasons has a coordinating die set called Seasonal Layers Thinlits which made cutting out the flowers and leaves a breeze.  Before cutting out the two ‘branch’ pieces I adhered some Multi Purpose Adhesive sheets to two strips of Early Espresso card stock – saves getting glue all over my fingers :).

The numbers are from the retired Large Numbers Thinlits – a little more subtle being on the inside of the card :).  The flowers were stamped in Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape then the stamen was stamped in Early Espresso.  The DSP is from Wood Textures (3cm x 12,8cm) and the strip of card stock is Sahara Sand (3.5cm x 10.5cm).

For the leaves I inked up the stamps using Sponge Daubers.  The first layer was Old Olive and then I lightly added some Garden Green.  To the tips of the leaves I added a small amount of Early Espresso.  When you ink up a stamp this way don’t forget to give it a bit of a ‘huff’ before stamping :).  The images where then cut out with the die.

The fun then begins in layering up the image – working out the best placement for the various components.  I was really pleased with how this card turned out and my Sister-In- Law liked it as well 🙂

Until next time …