Utah Divas International Color Challenge – #32

Tuesday is here again – it just seems to come around so quickly – where does the week go?

This week’s Utah Diva’s Color Challenge was pretty easy for me – it just so happened that I was already working on something that pretty much used these same colors.    Daffodil Delight, Basic Black and Whisper White – all I had to do was add the Basic Gray.

Click on this link to go to the  Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog.   There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.

So what was I working on with these colors – my March Ribbon share boxes.  I happen to have in my big stash of stuff a bunch of little take out boxes that were Daffodil Delight.  I bought these a couple of years ago at a store in the $1 bin.  And never did use them.  I was trying to think of a good way to present my ribbon share this month – I like to do something creative – it goes with the territory….. and I thought about these little boxes.  So that is what I used.

Inside each box is all the ribbon for the ribbon share.  Then when I saw the color challenge for this week I thought I just need to add the Basic Gray to this project and it will be perfect.  Here is my updated project for the Color Challenge today.

I stamped the flower from Fifth Avenue Floral on a piece of Watercolor paper and used my Aquapainter and the Daffodil Delight ink to watercolor the flower.  Then I cut it out. It is layered with a dimensional on top of a scallop circle punched out of Basic Black card stock.  Then underneath that is a larger scallop circle out of Basic Gray.  This one is actually the scallop end of the tag on the Two Tags die cut using the Big Shot.  What you do is cut the tag out, then put the tag back on the die in the opposite direction matching the cut scallop end up with the scallop on the die to cut the other side.  This cuts out the other half which then layers perfectly with our original Scallop Circle punch. Finally I added pearls to the center of the flower and then put it on the front of the box.

On the top of the box is an oval punch that says “for you”.  And I tied the top of the box with Taffeta Ribbon – in Basic Black, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White.

So you have two different versions of the take out boxes.  The one with the ribbon share uses the Four Frames stamp set for the label on the front.

Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

• Card stock:  Watercolor paper, Basic Black, Basic Gray
  
• Ink: Daffodil Delight, Jet Black Staz On
  
• Stamp sets: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes
  
• Accessories:  1-3/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, Oval punches – 1-3/4 x 7/8 and 1-3/8 x 5/8,  (Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Two Tags die, Aquapainter, Basic Pearls, Taffeta Ribbon – Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Whisper White, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  

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UDI Color Challenge #31

Happy Tuesday Morning everyone!

Are you ready for this weeks Utah Diva’s Color Challenge?    I actually had mine done early this week (and believe it or not I already have the next one done too – he he!) .  Here is the inspiration picture for Color Challenge #31 –

Click on this link to go to the  Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog.   There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.

Basic Black, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White –  what I thought of was using the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set and doing a One Sheet Wonder.  The idea has been around for years and about once a year or so I remember the concept and use it for something.  Well that time has arrived.  If you have never heard of the One Sheet Wonder concept it is basically where you take one piece of paper – in this case it will be one piece of stamped card stock – cut it into multiple pieces to make multiple cards or projects.  I used one sheet of 8-1/2″ x 11″ Whisper White card stock and stamped the three flower images from Fifth Avenue Floral – one in Night of Navy, one in Bashful Blue and one in Daffodil Delight.  These were stamped randomly all over my one piece of card stock.

I do have to tell you that I spent a long time looking for this stamp set in my craft room once I decided that I wanted to use it for this project.  I searched through all my stamp sets three times and was just about to send out an email to my downline thinking perhaps I had let someone borrow it and it never made it back to me.  Well I found it – guess where it was – on my craft table – why because I had just used it on another project the day before – I think I’m losing my mind…..

So back to the project.  I took this one piece of card stock and to make it easy – cut it in half, then in half, then in half, then in half – ending up with 16 pieces that were 2-3/4″ x 2-1/8″ big.  And do you wonder what I did with all those little pieces?  Well here you go…..

They became Thank You tags for my club orders that I am packing up this week.  I took each piece cut from the one sheet wonder and matted it with a piece of Night of Navy card stock.  Then I made some with Daffodil Delight and others with Bashful Blue backgrounds, borders and butterflies.  I added the black on the “thank you” that is stamped on the wing, on the black crochet thread wrapped around the butterflies and for my hangers.  I hope you like them!

Take a minute to visit the UDI site and play along with us this week.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

• Card stock:  Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Whisper White
  
• Ink: Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Basic Black
  
• Stamp sets: Fifth Avenue Floral, Teeny Tiny Wishes
  
• Accessories:  Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, 1/16″ circle handheld punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
  

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Manhattan Flower

Wow!  I had some amazing comments yesterday!  I’m so glad everyone loved the Scrapbook in a Box.  It is just a great project and easy to adapt to so many things.  It would be cute decorated like a baby block full of baby pictures!

Thank you! Thank you! For all the wonderfully nice comments. I loved reading them all and I think I replied to everyone.  If I missed you I’m sorry I had a lot!  And some replies came back with errors so the email address didn’t work for some reason.

I was going through some scrapbook pages and found this card mixed in with them.  I don’t think I have shared it on my blog.  I thought I would share it with you today for a couple of reasons – one it used some of the colors that will be retiring and because the embossing folder matches the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set which is on sale through April 30th.

This card uses the Big Shot Die Cut Machine with the Manhattan Flower Embossing Folder.  The roses are embossed onto Shimmery White card stock and then the debossed side is brayered to give the variation in color – I used Regal Rose (a light layer so roll some off onto your scratch paper first) and Summer Sun.  Then cut out around the embossed roses before attaching to the card.

The card base is Regal Rose with a layer of Barely Banana.  The greeting is from the Oval All stamp set.  Since the embossing folder matches the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set I used the flower from the stamp set to decorate the envelope.

Summer Sun and Barely Banana are two of the colors that will be retiring.  You could use So Saffron and the new Daffodil Delight in their place. I hope you like it!

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Fifth Avenue Floral – Super Easy card!

I found this card idea earlier last week – it is so simple but looks so nice!  I used it for my class on Friday – as a quick and simple – Stampin’ 101 type of card.  The idea is from Kristen Moore.  I actually simplified my card a little bit more by just stamping the flowers – she actually embossed hers.

The shadowing on the flowers is created using a Versa Marker!  It just makes the paper a shade darker where ever you add the marker – which is clear VersaMark ink.  I used Rich Razzleberry ink and then added the ribbon on the top.  The card base is Kraft card stock which will be called Crumb Cake in the new Color Collections.  Or I could say this is Crumb Cake formerly known as Kraft!

I made mine into a Mother’s Day card so it fits the Late Night Stampers challenge for this week – which is to create something for Mother’s Day.  This would also be pretty for weddings or a shower.  I hope you like this quick and easy card.

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