Morning all, I have actually managed to sneak downstairs undetected by my little (and not so little..) ones this morning so I am enjoying an undisturbed cup of coffee while writing this post. I know this peace and quiet won't last so I am making the most of it.
I am a big fan of the word CASE, in the crafting community it means Copy and Share Everything and I always get a big thrill if someone asks if they can CASE my cards. I am more than happy for anyone to CASE anything of mine they see on my blog, Facebook or Instagram, I'd like it if they mentioned that they'd been inspired by my card but it is not essential. Where I can I will also link back to the original persons work as I feel they deserve the recognition of having inspired someone to create. With that in mind today's card has been CASEd from a card that Jacque Williams created for a colour challenge.
With Valentines Day round the corner I wanted to make a card for Craig that wasn't too girly so when I saw this one on Pinterest I just had to give it a go. I just love this colour combination for masculine cards so I might be making some more using these two colours. I didn't have all of the materials that Jacque used on her card but what I did have was some white glitter washi, some white organza ribbon and my Night of Navy Stampin' Blend. Did you know you could use your blends to colour in washi tape, rhinestones and ribbon? Now you can get your favourite embellishments to coordinate without having to own one in every colour!
One of the things I love about CASEing other peoples cards is that often you learn something along the way, while I knew about colouring washi tape with Stampin' Blends, I didn't know about 'kissing' stamps together. While admiring Jacques card I was wondering how she had produced the small Night of Navy heart, was it a stamp I didn't recognise, had she used white craft ink? I couldn't tell until I read her blog post and realised it was a simple technique that I hadn't heard of before. For the heart on this card you take the small heart in the stamp set, ink it up with Night of Navy ink and then lightly 'kiss' this stamp with the large floral heart. This then picks up some of the floral pattern so that when you stamp it onto card you get a gorgeous patterned heart.
The base card in Night of Navy was not folded into equal halves, this is so that when the right hand side of the inner card has been embossed it can be seen when you close the card. I always forget about my embossing folders, I buy them because I think they achieve lovely results but then they are hidden in my cupboard and I forget about them. I must make more of an effort to use them! Another great reason for CASEing cards, it reminds you of forgotten products.
The smaller background hearts were stamped onto Whisper White card and while you can get matching dies to go with this stamp set, I haven't purchased these (yet!), so I used my trusty paper snips to fussy cut my two hearts which were then popped on using dimensionals. I finished off the outside by adding the embellishments I had coloured and some Lemon Lime Twist self adhesive sequins. I really hope Stampin' Up! bring out more self adhesive sequins, these are so much easier to use!
Well my coffee is finished and I can hear my little monsters thumping about upstairs which means my short spell of peace and quiet it about to vanish, I hope you like the finished card, please feel free to CASE this or any of my other cards and I'd love to see what you come up with. All of the supplies used to make today's card are shown below and all links will take you directly to my online shop. Happy crafting.
