Happy Sunday! And that means it's time for a new challenge from The Paper Players! This time we have a great CAS challenge from the lovely Stef:
Since I've been stamping for over 20 years now, and since I still have yet to sell anything in my To Sell? boxes (note the question mark), that means I have LOTS and LOTS of holiday images to choose from. The one stamp set that kept popping in my head when thinking about this challenge is the one I used for my very first handmade Christmas cards in 2004: Sleigh Ride (it is not in the To Sell? boxes). Here's what I made:
The full image stamp is actually much larger, but I decided to go with just a portion of the image so I could have more open space and keep my card feeling CAS. I stamped it in Cloud Cover ink on Soft Sea Foam cardstock because I discovered recently that I like those two colors together, die cut it and did a bit of sponging and popped it up on some little scraps of Cloud Cover DSP, also die cut. I had one little bitty scrap of that DSP and so I cut one end of the rectangle shape twice, the pieces don't actually meet in the middle under the main image. Don't tell anyone. Couldn't resist adding a few pearls around my greeting and it's kind of amazing how the Soft Succulent pearls picked up the color of the Cloud Cover cardstock!
Side note: I took at least ten pictures of this card over several days in various places and this was the best I could get. Does anyone else have trouble photographing Cloud Cover? The colors kept coming out wonky.
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps: Sleigh Ride
Ink: Cloud Cover, Soft Sea Foam
Paper: Cloud Cover, Soft Sea Foam, Cloud Cover DSP
Accessories: Textured Notes dies, Festive Pearls
Want to see my 2004 card? You can see the full stamped image here:
I made...uh...somewhere between 40 and 60 of these? And I watercolored every single one because clearly I was bananas. This is also before I got a Stamp-a-Ma-Jig so I just stamped the greeting and hoped it was straight (spoiler alert: it wasn't). Nowadays I order photo cards online for most of our card list and only my favorite peeps get handmade cards (in addition to the photo card and family newsletter). Mostly because I don't want to make the same design that many times.
Back to today's challenge, we hope you'll join the fun at the Paper Players! Don't forget to keep your card clean and simple: limited layers and embellishments, with lots of white space (though my white space is, in this instance, Cloud Cover). And here are the other challenge rules:
1. Create a new paper project
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4. Have fun!
The Paper Players Design Team
1 comment:
Christy, it's so wonderful that you've kept that beautiful Christmas stamp and pulled it out for our CAS challenge. I love the vintage style and how you were able to use those dsp scraps to create your horizontal piece beneath the main image. So creative and effective! The color pairing you chose looks very elegant too. Thanks for sharing a photo of your original card - it's beautiful and the sentiment didn't look crooked from the angle of the photo. I've done my fair share of crooked stamping and am forever grateful for stamp positioners lol!
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