Hi there!
Happy July!!! I hope you're having a fabulous summer and are enjoying all the fun that summertime brings! I just had a big birthday and to celebrate my officially joining the 40's club (*wink!*), my sweet hubby planned all sorts of fun festivities! We had several fun get-togethers with friends and family and I felt tremendously blessed to have so many years to celebrate and so many loved ones to celebrate with! Not only that, but a lot of you reached out to me on social media, with your own sweet birthday wishes, and I thank you one and all! It was a great birthday and I'm feeling awfully blessed as I enter a new decade of life! :)
I'm getting excited for more fun family time with the 4th of July just around the corner! I can't believe the year is half over -- my birthday is officially the half-way point!! Man, it comes faster every year! Haha. Anyway, what do you have planned for the holiday? Food? Fun? Family? Friends? Fireworks? That's a lot of "f's"! Haha.
Well, before we all rush off to celebrate our nation's independence, how about if we pull out an older Papertrey stamp set and give it a little love? Perhaps for the holiday, you'll find yourself with a little time to get crafty. Maybe you'll want to consider getting Daydreamer out and inking it up again! I know it's been awhile since I used this darling set, designed by Nichole Heady, but I sure had fun revisiting it this past week, for this month's Senior Design Team Challenge!
For my first card, I decided to get a little chalkboard-y. Is that a thing? Chalkboard-y? :) I think it is! I stamped this sentiment from Daydreamer first, so I could get the spacing of all the flowers just right. I stamped it with versamark ink and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Next, I stamped several of the leaves and flowers from Daydreamer, and heat embossed them as well.
I also die cut and stamped a few more flowers and leaves to position over the top of the embossing. Each of these were just stamped with versamark -- no heat embossing this time.
This was a fun color combo that just jumped out at me the other day as I looked across the room at my desk. These particular colors were all pulled out from the rest of the papers -- not intentionally -- but I loved them together and decided to use them for today's projects!
Before I adhered the colored flowers and leaves, I ran a sponge over the card front with a bit of fresh snow ink.....just to give it that chalky look. {Chalkboard-y look} :)
For the second card, I pulled out some guide lines grid card stock. Dani Flanders used it on a card the other day and it reminded me that I love the way it looks but haven't used it in awhile. I love how the other girls on the design team inspire me, in so many different ways!
Anyway, again, I started out by stamping the sentiment. Once that was in place, I could build my little floral scene around it. I stamped a sentiment from Daydreamer, as well as part of one from Boutique Borders: Birthday (with a little masking). (Links for everything are below!)
I used the same colors as on the card above -- pure poppy, raspberry fizz, berry sorbet, limeade ice, and tropical teal -- but don't they look so different when stamped on bright white? I love how both cards use the same colors but have a very different feel!
I stamped everything directly on the card front and then added one die cut flower for a bit of dimension, before trimming it off at the edge of the card.
It's so fun to pull out older sets and breathe some new life into them. Do you ever pull these same sets out, when we do the Senior Design Team Challenge each month, and play with them yourself? Or do you just let the card designs inspire you to use something more current? I'd love to hear how/if these monthly challenges inspire you to create!
Be sure to go see what the other girls have done with Daydreamer!
Betsy Veldman
Melissa Phillips
Heather Nichol
Maile Belles
Wishing you a fabulous day, friends!
xo,
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