Friday Inspiration from A Crafters Collaboration
Today, Friday Inspiration is celebrating birthday fun from A Crafters Collaboration and Slim Line Birthday style! This card was featured January 27th on Facebook & Instagram as the last Slim Line Card post of January. What is making for Friday Inspiration for you?
This month our collaboration is focusing on Mini Catalog Designer Card Sketches. The designers at Stampin’Up! do a smashing job of creating artwork that encourages us both creatively and on our pocketbook retail level. Am I right?
We love what they do so much that we know we have to add this to our collection. ‘This’ whatever that word means in paper crafting world to us in the moment! I knew I had to have this set as soon as I saw Erica Cerwins design art for the Mini Catalog! This is a fun stamp set to play with.
This card features watercolor pencils on Shimmery White Cardstock along with ink blending. It’s a simple design paired with a belly band. It comes together fairly quick!
Measurements
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Base: Basic White Thick Cardstock 3 1/4″ x 11″ – Score at 5 1/2″
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Image layers: So Saffron & Basic White
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Basic White: 2 1/4″ x 2 1/2″
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So Saffron: 2 3/8″ x 2 5/8″
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Belly Band: Strip regular Basic White and So Saffron layers
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Basic White: 1/2″ x 7″
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So Saffron: 5/8″ x 7″
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Scrap for taco images: Shimmery White Cardstock (this cardstock takes water very well:)
Supplies
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Stamps: Taco Fiesta
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Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black & Crushed Curry Ink Pads
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Marker: Basic Black
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Paper: Shimmery White Cardstock
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Other: Paper Trimmer, Watercolor Pencils, Water Painter Brush, Blending Brush
See Project Supplies Button below for full list of supplies in a convenient shopping cart.
I used a Basic Black marker on the photopolymer (clear) stamp to separate the sentiment. Sometimes it doesn’t give a crisp stamping when using this technique. I should have used the Stamparatus.
That way I would have been able to repeat the inking for a more crisp, fully black sentiment. Always a learning lesson to be had when stamping!
To create the belly band after stamping – gently wrap the yellow strip around the card. You don’t want this tight so that the belly band will easily slide on/off card. Glue or tape the ends together. Now repeat with the stamped Basic White strip to get the words exactly where you want them. Again, don’t tighten this down it needs to fit the yellow well but not tighten the band down.
Time to Color!
Completing the image layers is fun! Grab your watercolor pencils, stamp your images onto scrap pc of Shimmery White Cardstock and color away! Blending the pigments of the watercolor pencils is so easy – with either Water Painters or a Blende Pen. It’s amazing what a small grouping of pencil colors can achieve. If swipe back up to one of the supplies photos, I show a slim pencil tote. I purchased that at Hobby Lobby a number of years ago to hold my pencils for travel. It has a velcro strip that snugs it into a handled tote. It holds both assortments of Stampin’Up! Watercolor Pencils along with a handheld sharpener, Blender Pen, Water Painter Brush & blending stump. Perfect travel companion!
I stamped the chip stamp over and over to create the soft background of the main layer. Then used an ink blending brush to apply more So Saffron ink around the edges to soften the top layer.
This card has an finished card dimension of 3 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ so you need a custom envelope.
Here’s the template:)
Would you like to see more custom DIY envelope templates?
Click on the above template to take you out to a blog post dedicated to all things envelopes.
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January 27th, 2023 was A Crafters Collaboration Facebook Live. You can watch for us on the 4th Tuesday of most months- January we had to change the dates to accommodate schedule changes. The image below will take you over to Facebook to see a fun Slim Line Sale-A-Bration card that fellow Demonstrator Donna Goodwin created for our January Collaboration. I hope you will pop over there to watch it!
(Click on that LIVE button – you shouldn’t have to log in or have a Facebook account to view it)
I hope you enjoyed seeing us together having fun sharing paper crafting! You can see all of our weekly posts at A Crafters Collaboration on our channels – click below to jump over to view. You don’t have to have accounts on Facebook nor Instagram to view the galleries.
We hope you will take a peek and if you see anything you like- join those platforms & follow us.
We would love for you to join our crafty collaboration!!
My friend and fellow demonstrator Donna has an awesome blog- check her out at www.wingedhorsedesigns.com
All the supplies for today’s project can be viewed by clicking on the below image. It will take you out to my Stampin’Up! webshop where there is a pre-filled shopping cart for you. To remove the items you don’t need all you have to do is click the item to uncheck it.
Be sure to add in the host code: ST2CAUDN when your order is under $150. (US) to be on my M3 thank you list! Read all about that here on my home page – Click “Shop My Store” that will bring a drop down menu: the last item there is My Mystery Mailbox Mailouts customer thank you program.
I hope you have fun shopping- if you would rather shop around in the full site,
the below image takes you right over to the home page.
Once on the home page: Click Shop Now and you can view stamping supplies by category, by filter or search using key words.
While you are there, I encourage you to view My Projects Gallery as well as the Events
page to see what’s up this month!
It’s happy hearts February – what is on your Valentine card makers & paper crafting agenda?
Click here for a big Valentine card I made last month.
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I will be back on the blog and Facebook Live soon to share a Valentines Candy box that takes it’s designed right from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.
(fingers crossed the technology gremlins stay away)
I hope you will check in with me next week!
Facebook Live: February 6 is my normal scheduled event – however- next week will be a pop-in when I have time & all the tech-planets align kind of week:) thanks for your understanding as changes in platforms & equipment have made for a challenging kickoff to 2023 for me! See you soon!
Happy Hearts February & Inky Hugs,
Teresa
