My friend and fellow Dirty Girl Alumni, Jami, sent a few people packages of some stamped images from one of her favorite retiring Stampin' Up! sets, Stampin Fun For Everyone, and challenged us to create a card or project! Since I don't own this set and I love a challenge, I was in! I used this sketch from CPS . . . here's my card:
It is 5.25" square and started with a card base of chocolate chip. Since this 50's stampin' girl (prim & proper in her white gloves!) reminded me somehow of sewing, my mind immediately jumped to BasicGrey's Stella Ruby papers. If you haven't seen them, some of the papers have sewing pattern markings on them (that's one running across the bottom left corner of the coral paper) and the prints themselves remind me of all those pretty floral dresses reminiscent of that era.
These images Jami provided came on whisper white paper and separately. After determining my layout, I knew I wanted the sentiment to be with the main image, so I mounted them together onto chocolate chip cardstock, and placed the chocolate chip grosgrain over the seam. I watercolored her with an AquaPainter and dye reinkers: cameo coral, creamy caramel, barely banana, bashful blue. She is shadowed with a very light gray marker I got from Anna. The edges were sponged with cocoa ink.
I distressed the edges of the chocolate mat by using an edge distresser. This was the perfect opportunity to answer another reader's question:
"I recently received an edge distresser...it's a circle with a section cut out of it (looks like pac-man). I am wondering if you could show how to use it with pictures. Thanks!" Lisa
Lisa, here's your Pac-man photo!
All you have to do is place your cardstock on that razor blade inside the Pac-man's mouth and pull the distresser down the edge of the cardstock. It will rough up the edges and then you can further distress them a bit with your fingernail. That's it!
So, back to the card . . . after layering my papers onto the card base, I faux zig-zag stitched the top blue-green piece and bottom of the striped piece, to help tie in with my sewing theme. Next, I layered chocolate and coral Prima flowers, placed brads in the centers, and adhered them with glue dots to the blue-green strip.
I mounted the focal image with dimensionals and finished with a copper Hodgepodge oval clip tied with chocolate ribbon.
Thanks so much for the challenge, Jami -- it was great fun! Another part of her challenge was to "pay it forward" and challenge a few other stampers, if we choose. So watch your mailboxes, some of you will be getting some surprises soon!
All supplies except patterned paper, Prima flowers & edge distresser are from Stampin' Up!
