It’s time for a couple more Something Fancy Cards! For the last card in my weekly Card Class From ME, I finished using the Something Fancy Bundle with 2 themes in mind. One is “hello”. The other is “thanks”. Both are great reasons to send a card!
If you missed the other awesome cards in this week’s Something Fancy class, click here to see one.
Double Duty Embossing Folders
The thanks and hello in the background of my cards are actually embossed. I did this courtesy of the Thanks & Hello Embossing Folder 2 pack. These folders are small in stature, measuring just over 6″ long and @3.5″ wide.
Due to the layout of the words “thanks” on one folder and “hello” on the other, all in multiple languages and fonts, you will want to use these embossing folders in the landscape orientation.
Very Fancy Background Layers
I embossed white cardstock with the Thanks & Hello Embossing Folders for my cards. This way, I was able to add some ink color with a Blending Brush to highlight some of the words. It also brought out the color scheme for each card as well.
I continued my use of the Flowers & More Host Designer Series Paper pack, similar to the first 2 cards from this class. For these cards using the Something Fancy Bundle, I chose 2 patterns in 2 completely different colors: Fresh Freesia and Pale Papaya.
Because my colors are soft and pastel in nature, white embossing isn’t the boldest choice. To adjust my sentiments so that they were easier to read, I added like-color ink to each die cut. The embossed sentiment resists the added ink, while the cardstock surrounding it deepens in color.
Fancy Embellishments
No card is complete without a little ribbon or bling. Since Fresh Freesia and Pale Papaya are both In Colors, there are matching styles of ribbon available in each color. I folded over my Open Weave Ribbon instead of creating a swoosh or a bow.
And lastly, I added something fancy in the way of Pearl Basic Jewels. The pearls made an appearance on each of my cards from this week’s Card Class From ME!
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Monday’s are hard, but in this card making series, I will show you that stamping shouldn’t be. In fact, it’s quite easy. And with minimal supplies and minimal efforts, you can get fabulous results! To see last Monday’s card, click here.
Beautiful Moments Stamp Set
Today’s Monday Card features the stamp set, Beautiful Moments. This is a fantastic stamp set if you enjoy coloring, with its large open images. If you are not a fan of coloring, I am going to show you a way to make colorful clothing without actually coloring.
Beautiful Moments Stamp Set, item #151677
Our fabulous Monday Card uses minimal supplies: one stamp set, Beautiful Moments, two ink pads, Early Espresso and Balmy Blue, and two colors of cardstock, Balmy Blue and Crumb Cake. Please follow along!
A Monday Card
The Card Recipe
Balmy Blue CS: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2″, score at 4-1/4″ for card base.
Balmy Blue CS: 4 x 5-1/4″, 3-1/4 x 3-1/4″, scrap @ 2-1/2 x 2-1/2″
Crumb Cake CS: 3-1/2 x 3-1/2″, 3 x 3″, 1 x 4″, 3/4 x 2-1/2″
Stamp And Assemble
This Monday’s Are Hard, Stamping Shouldn’t Be Card starts out with the typical “fold in half” and score with your bone folder to get a great crisp card base. Let’s not break tradition.
However, my TIP to you is to score once, invert the fold and score again. Your inner crease is now as crisp as the outer one. This makes for a professional looking card base!
Create Your Own Designer Series Paper
With the minimal supplies used in this card, we are not adding designer series paper to it. We are making our own! I use this great background pattern effect with any stamp sets I own.
I suggest stamping on scrap paper, as this technique has you stamping off the edge of your cardstock. Starting at the bottom, stamp the line stamp from the Beautiful Moments Stamp Set in Balmy Blue Ink on the 4 x 5-1/4″ Balmy Blue CS.
Next, continue to fill in the wavy lines up each side of the paper and along the top. I varied the position of the stamp to get a random pattern. Also, I criss-crossed some of the lines, like choppy waves. I focused on the outer edges, knowing the middle would eventually be covered in layers.
Simple Stamping
This Easy Monday Card couldn’t get any easier! I used Early Espresso Ink to stamp the grassy plants from the Beautiful Moments Stamp Set onto the 1 x 4″ piece of Crumb Cake CS. I varied the height of each stamping, filling my paper as I went across it.
Moving on to my sentiment, I chose the stamp “collect beautiful moments” from the Beautiful Moments Stamp Set. The remaining sentiments in this set would have worked just as well.
I inked the stamp in Early Espresso and applied it to the 3/4 x 2-1/2″ Crumb Cake CS. Purposefully, I made sure to stamp the sentiment as far left as I could. This enabled me to tear off a small section on the right, leaving a jagged edge.
Beach Combers
The two young ladies with their sand buckets make an adorable pair. I stamped this image from the Beautiful Moments Stamp Set twice in Early Espresso Ink, once on the 3 x 3 Crumb Cake CS, and once on the Balmy Blue scrap.
I kept the image on the Crumb Cake CS closer to the top, to allow room for the sentiment piece. The Balmy Blue scrap has an entirely different purpose.
To make colorful dresses for my girls, I brought in my Paper Snips and cutting skills. First, I cut the pair apart, so I could tackle each dress one at a time. Next, I fussy cut each dress, leaving the dark outline visible.
Lastly, I placed the beautiful blue dresses on my beachy friends. This is a great way to add color without coloring. But, you could also add pattern paper here and play paper dolls all day long. Just remember that you need to be able to see the stamped image on the pattern paper to cut it out.
Easy Monday Card Layering
The stamping on the outside of the card is complete. Now it is assembly time. The beach combers have two additional square layers to complete their matting.
The rest of the card also goes together just as easy. First, I layered the 4 x 5=1/4″ Balmy Blue CS onto the card base. I added my beach combers layer combo toward the top, centered in the middle. I placed the sentiment under the girls feet, toward the left of the square, with the jagged edge flowing to the right. The grassy fronds were placed closer to the bottom of the card.
The Insider Job
Your card is beautiful on the outside, now lets make it pretty inside too! I like to mimic some of the outer stamping into a corner of the inside card. This way the card has continuity and there is still lots of room to add your own sentiment or written thoughts.
For this card, I stamped the girl on the left into the bottom corner, making sure my stamp flowed well off the paper where needed. I also stamped a grassy frond next to her. This was done using Early Espresso Ink.
To make her fancy, I stamped the dress on a Crumb Cake scrap and fussy cut it. I adhered it with my favorite adhesive, Tombow Liquid Glue. Now, this image is the opposite of what is shown on the front of the card, yet similar in nature.
Change It Up!
This is when I usually show a card made with this same layout that incorporates some ribbon or bling, something to step it up beyond simple. Today, I am sharing a card without additional embellishment, instead changing the colors and content.
It is my hope to inspire you to use the card recipes I include in my Monday Card Series, using whatever colors and stamps you have on hand. My Christmas In July card does just that! It is made with the same recipe as the Beautiful Moments Beach Card.
This card is made using the stamp set Perfectly Plaid, item #149418
This nature lover’s card is not over-the-top red and green and jolly. I kept the tones quite neutral, with Pear Pizzazz and Crumb Cake. I sponged the Crumb CS with like colored ink to deepen the tone. The trees were punched from DSP using the Pine Tree Punch (item #149521), then added to the card front with dimensionals for lift.
Here is the side by side comparison so you can see how alike these two cards really are!
What will you create with this recipe? The possibilities are endless when you are crafty…or have a great recipe to work with!
I hope you enjoyed making this easy card on a hard Monday with me. My video tutorial can be found on my FaceBook page, as well as my YouTube channel. If you need any supplies for this card, please feel free to visit my online store, https://www.juliemakson.stampinup.net, at any time. See you next Monday for another installment of:
Monday’s are hard, but in this cardmaking series, I will show you that stamping shouldn’t be. In fact, it’s quite easy. And with minimal supplies and minimal efforts, you can get fabulous results!
Lovely You Stamp Set
Today’s Monday Card features the stamp set Lovely You. This is a new stamp set from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalog from Stampin’ Up!. If you would like to see another easy Monday card that features flowers, click here.
You can purchase Lovely You as a bundle with the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch and save 10%. However, since we are using minimal supplies, this Monday Card only uses the stamp set. But more on the punch later!
Lovely You Stamp Set, item #152525
That’s right, one stamp set, Lovely You, two ink pads, Rich Razzleberry and Shaded Spruce, and two colors of cardstock, Rich Razzleberry and Whisper White. Please follow along!
A Monday Card
The Card Recipe
Rich Razzleberry CS: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2″, score at 4-1/4″ for card base.
Rich Razzleberry CS: 4 x 5-1/4″, 1-3/4 x 3-1/2″, ″ and 1 x 4″, small scrap
Whisper White CS: 4 x 5 1/4″ (for inside, optional)
Whisper White CS: 1-1/2 x 3-1/4″, 3/4 x 3-3/4″, (4 of) 3/4 x 5″, small scrap
Stamp And Assemble
This Monday’s Are Hard, Stamping Shouldn’t Be Card starts out with the typical “fold in half” and score with your bone folder to get a great crisp card base. Let’s not break tradition.
However, my TIP to you is to score once, invert the fold and score again. Your inner crease is now as crisp as the outer one. This makes for a professional looking card base!
Create Your Own Designer Series Paper
With the minimal supplies used in this card, we are not adding designer series paper to it. We are making our own!
This great background pattern can be used with any stamp sets you own that contain small stamps and sentiments. It is a great way to use up some of those white strips of left-over paper that are lying around too!
I started with the Shaded Spruce Ink and 2 of the 3/4 x 5″ Whisper White strips. I used the three-leaf stamp from the Lovely You Stamp Set four times on one strip. Next, I used the sentiment “always”, and varied which letters from the word showed on my narrow paper strip.
After completing the Shaded Spruce strips, I worked on the Rich Razzleberry ones. On the two remaining strips, I stamped flowers from the Lovely You Stamp Set. I was able to get four of the larger flower images on one, and five of the smaller images on the other.
After I stamped all four strips, I adhered them to a piece of 4 x 5-1/4″ Rich Razzleberry CS. I like to “dry fit” my pieces before permanently attaching them. This gives me time to see if I like the layout, and the ability to change my mind.
I kept my strips closer to the left, with a portion of the Rich Razzleberry visible on the right. There is room to play here, and you could easily separate the strips farther apart and fill the space instead.
Focal Stamping
This card has a lot of small stamps doing all the work. To anchor the sentiment, I continued by using Shaded Spruce Ink and the leaf sprig stamp from the Lovely You Stamp Set. But this time, I doubled the size by stamping the image twice, once up and once down.
If there is an overlap in the middle, that is fine. The middle stamping will be covered up by the sentiment layer later on. I adhered this 1-1/2 x 3-1/4″ Whisper White CS to a panel of Rich Razzleberry CS, 1-3/4 x 3-1/2″.
So Many Sentiments
The Lovely You Stamp Set has 8 sentiments, along with 3 individual words. This stamp set has so much variety! I chose the sentiment “miles apart, but still in my heart”.
When I stamped the sentiment in Rich Razzleberry Ink, I kept the image to the right of my 3/4 x 3-3/4″ Whisper White CS. Next, I adhered it to a layer of 1 x 4″ Rich Razzleberry CS.
Finishing Touches
The leaf sprig layer and sentiment layer need to be placed on the card. I placed the leaf sprig layer toward the left of the card, overlapping some of the smaller strips. The final position can be chosen to suit the background stamps in play.
When it came time to add the sentiment strip over the sprig assembly, the previous card layering left one end much lower. I solved this off-kilter situation by adding small pieces of Rich Razzleberry CS to the back of the sentiment layer where it needed a ‘bump’ up.
The back of this sentiment piece needed to go up at least two levels,which I accomplished by adding small pieces of like-color cardstock in the appropriate area.
Fussy Details
Fussy cutting is not a favorite of most people. I try to keep mine to a minimum as well. But from time to time, it adds a needed detail to a card.
For this Monday card, I stamped the three-leaf stamp in Shaded Spruce, and the larger of the floral stamps in Rich Razzleberry onto a white scrap. Then, I did a little of the dreaded fussy cutting with my Paper Snips.
The middle of the fussy cut leaf will be covered by the flower, so it will not require the fussiest of cutting. The flower is easy to fussy cut, as just the head is needed. Lastly, I attached them to my card front, on the left of the sentiment piece.
The Insider Job
Your card is beautiful on the outside, now lets make it pretty inside too! I like to mimic some of the outer stamping into a corner of the inside card. This way the card has continuity and there is still lots of room to add your own sentiment or written thoughts.
Here, I used the leaf sprig stamp and Shaded Spruce Ink first. I angled the image from the bottom corner toward the middle of the 4 x 5-1/4″ Whisper White CS. Next, I stamped the larger flower in Rich Razzleberry and added it on the side.
Step It Up!
For my stepped up version of this same card, I pulled out the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch, which can be purchased at the same time as the stamp set for an instant 10% savings, using item #154070 when buying both.
Lovely Labels Pick A Punch, item #152883
Because this versatile punch removes a small amount of cardstock from the end, you will need to add 1/8″ to your cardstock measurement for each side that is punched. So, in my next card sample, I added 1/8″ to the four background strips, punching only one end. For the sentiment pieces, I added 1/4″, because I punched both ends.
This stepped up card shows the work of the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch. I was able to use two different label ends (see layering strips and sentiment) with one punch.
Handy Tip: When cutting cardstock for the Lovely Labels Pick A Punch, you can choose 1/2″, 3/4″ or 1″ strips to fit in the channels. I find that the cardstock fits smoothly if I shave 1/16″ off the width from the stated sizes when cutting my paper.
In my stepped up Lovely You card, I also used the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder (item #152718) on the 4 x 5-1/4″ Rich Razzleberry CS to help define it. I used some retired Rich Razzleberry Ribbon and a gem from the Rhinestone Basic Jewels (item #144220) in the center of my flower.
Another Monday
I hope you enjoyed making this easy card on a hard Monday with me. My video tutorial can be found on my FaceBook page, as well as my YouTube channel. If you need any supplies for this card, please feel free to visit my online store, https://www.juliemakson.stampinup.net, at any time. See you next Monday for another installment of:
