I’m in love with the Party Piggy stamp set. This happy smiley, pig makes me smile too!
For this card, I sponged on some sun rays, hand drew a shadow then I glued on the pig. I paired the Party Piggy bundle with the Notes and Totes bundle and was excited to find the Notes and Totes sunglasses fit the pig perfectly. I popped the glasses on dimensionals.
The sun stamp, the sentiment and the inside words (relax and enjoy) are also from the Notes and Totes bundle.
Here’s a recent card that I taught in my classes which is taken from a sketch challenge.
The challenge is to take an idea or sample from the Stampin’ Up! catalogue and use it as inspiration for your card. Here is the idea…
If you visit CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches you will be able to see more and take part in the current challenges.
My finished card was inspired from one made by Jolanda Johnstone. If you visit the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches you will see her card and find that I have changed mine up quite a bit from her original design. I kept the sponging elements, on the background and butterflies as I thought the casual colouring of the sponging worked well with the sketched look of these stamps. I wouldn’t want to colour these butterflies too precisely and lose that casual sketched look.
I decided to do something different for the inside of my card and I made a simple pop up card.
This is done on a insert card which is slightly smaller than the base card. I folded my insert card in half and made a pencil mark 4 cm mark on either side of the fold line at the top and another 4.5 cm down on the fold line. Then I scored down both sides to make the angled pop out piece. I added some butterflies to the left hand side. When the card is open the butterflies pop up but they fold back down when the card is closed.
This was a fun page to do. Its been a long time since I have made paper pinwheels.
I have used adhesive foam sheets to raise the lettering
The paper is from the recently retired, “Most Adored” pack from Stampin’ Up! I loved the white gold foil designs on this pack. The reverse side was mostly pinks and reds but the white and gold side can be sponged with any colour to match your page colours. I used a blending brush to sponge on Lemon Lolly colour to one of the pinwheels and one of the strips. I added some strips of card stock (Fresh Freesia and Berry Burst) to bring in more colours from the photo.
I had fun making this card.A bit of sponging. A bit of glitter. A bit of colouring and a bit of stamping.
So sad that this set is retiring. If you are like me and love a touch of fantasy, then maybe you should add this stamp set to your collection. Message me to place an order.
Little Paper Star - Rhonda Fawcett 