As promised a couple of posts below HERE, I made some more cards with that OSW (one sheet wonder) I stamped using SCS's color challenge this week of olive, celery & eggplant or violet and PAPERTREYink's new Little Lady stamp set. I got four more cards out of it and still have a few strips left over!
OSW Card #2:
Almost that same layout as the first card in the post below -- horizontal orientation and a large panel (5" x 3.75") of the OSW -- the main image is just a little larger and also stamped with the larger momma ladybug, in olive & eggplant. I used the clear Stardust Gelly Roll pen to give their spots a little sparkle! Eggplant grosgrain (SU) is tied around this panel that's matted with eggplant cardstock and mounted on dimensionals. There's a strip of olive cardstock that I pierced, behind the main image. Card base is eggplant.
OSW Card #3:
This is also an eggplant card base, turned vertical. I divided the same size OSW panel I used above in half to get two more cards out of it! This is a typical Valerie layout which I use again and again (thanks, Val)! The focal image is those same ladybugs as above and I used the clear Gelly Roll Glaze pen on their dots. Then I decided they should also be sparkly, so I sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds glitter over it -- now their dots are raised AND sparkly! The sentiment is originally one long line but I inked just the first half of it with Stampin' Up's eggplant Stampin' Write Marker and stamped it, cleaned the stamp, then inked the last part of the sentiment and stamped it just under the first line. This was all done without the use of the good ol' Stamp-A-Ma-Jig because these stamps are made of acrylic, so you can see right through them to line them up perfectly! The main image is mounted on dimensionals (seriously, what would I do without those things -- love them!) and celery striped May Arts ribbon is tied around the card. To finish it off, I added a double row of piercing at the top of the card base.
OSW Card #4
Here's that white card base I promised you I would make . . . OMGoodness, this heavy weight (110#) white cardstock from PAPERTREYink is fabulous as a stand-alone card! Another thing I forgot to mention about it is that it does NOT fray one bit when you cut it! (That fraying around the main panel is intentional distressing, LOL!)
Here's the other half of that smaller OSW panel (3.75" x 2.5") from above, used as a focal point and its edges distressed. There happened to be enough space in the middle of it to stamp the smaller ladybug crawling through the flowers and of course (you guessed it) -- glitter on her dots (this time using Zig's 2-Way Glue pen)! Can you tell I like glittery stuff just a little bit? ;) This panel is matted with olive cardstock, tied with May Arts dotted white organdy ribbon, and mounted with dimensionals to the white card base.
That same long sentiment line as above -- this time I shaped it in a wavy pattern on my acrylic block and stamped it to look like a little ladybug trail. It's stamped in classic olive ink (SU). Those teeny-tiny ladies are from the "handmade by" stamp that comes in this set! That's another great thing about PAPERTREYink's stamps -- Nichole has designed a unique "handmade by . . ." stamp for each set to date that coordinates beautifully with it! That girl knows how to help us make professional-looking cards, right down to the backs of them . . . thanks, Nicole!
OSW Card #5
When I first saw this set online when it could be ordered May 15th, I immediately saw an "S" shape in that ladybug trail. So here it is . . . your own personal note from "S"haron! It is stamped in olive ink and the two little flowers stamped in eggplant. The other words are Karen Foster's Snap Stamps, stamped in eggplant. See this post HERE for some information about the KF stamps. This panel is matted with eggplant and tied with May Arts white organdy dotted ribbon. It's all mounted with dimensionals to the olive card base that has a 5.25" x 2" strip of the OSW attached to it. The left edge of the OSW is distressed with Heidi Swapp's distressing tool.
So there you have it . . . 5 cards from one sheet of custom-stamped cardstock and I still have makings to get 1 or 2 more cards out of it!
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday weekend and stay safe. I still have a few more of the faux stitching cards to post, so watch for those.
