Canopy Crafts: May 2017

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Bold Butterfly Window PP345

Hey there, friends! I am excited to be the hostess this week at The Paper Players with a fun Clean-and Simple challenge...Butterflies!

With my crazy busy life, Clean-and-Simple seems to be the way my crafting is trending these days. I suspect it's that way for a lot of people right?! While I like Clean-and-Simple style, I still try to add small details that make the design intriguing....something that makes you say "how did she do that?"

Super clean design--just some card stock strips and a simple sentiment but the interesting part is the window sheet butterfly! First I adhered some cardstock strips to a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock. Then, I die cut the butterfly from this piece with the Bold Butterfly Framelits. Next, the butterfly wings were clear embossed onto a piece of Window Sheet using the Watercolor Wings stamp set. The Bold Butterfly Framelits were used again to die cut a butterfly from my card base. Once I had my three pieces (card base, window sheet & panel), I started building my layers. The Window Sheet is adhered to the card base with glue dots and the cardstock panel it adhered over the Window Sheet with dimensionals. Basically creating a sandwich of card base, window sheet, and main panel. The last step for the front was the sentiment in Black Archival ink from One Big Meaning.

The inside looked a little plain through the clear window sheet so I lined up and stamped the solid butterfly from Watercolor Wings on the inside. I used a new ink color--Powder Pink--part of the new In Color palette coming from Stampin' Up in June! From left to right: Berry Burst, Fresh Fig, Lemon Lime Twist, Powder Pink and Tranquil Tide. Aren't they pretty?

Here you have a better view of the clear embossed butterfly wings from the inside. Isn't that a cool look?! Inside sentiment placement can be a little tricky with a clear hole in the middle of the card but the spot on the inside left works perfectly! There's still enough room to write a note around the butterfly on the right. So there you have it...Clean-and-Simple, Detail Style!

I hope you enjoyed today's card. Be sure to pop over and check out the rest of the lovely butterflies from my design team buddies at The Paper Players. Maybe you'll be inspired to play along with us before our challenge closes on Friday, May 26th at Noon (PST). Thanks for stopping by!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Sunday, May 14, 2017

Happy Mother's Day PP344

What a special day today! A day to honor not only mothers but sisters, daughters, aunts, nieces, friends.....all the wonderful women in our lives. For me, there are plenty but none more influential, strong or loving than my mother. My constant, my rock, my support....I love you to the moon and back times infinity Mom! Thank you for everything you do for our family.

This week at The Paper Players another wonderful woman, Claire, has a bright and beautiful color challenge for us:

I'll admit, I was a little vexed when I first saw these colors but then I realized that I could blend the red and orange together....maybe cheating a little but it's a good way to approach similar colors in a palette. So here's what I pulled together:

I really love the Special Reason stamp set and am sad to see it retire. So far, I've mostly used it with the coordinating dies for the beautiful cut outs it creates. Here I wanted to feature the full stamp and the pretty flowers.

The two sizes of similar flowers makes for easy bouquets—I like the graduated look of the sizes. Here I inked the flowers first in Tangerine Tango and with a sponge dauber tapped in the center and the edges with Real Red ink. After cutting out with the coordinating die, I painted the flowers with Wink of Stella…happy sigh.

The watercolor look to the background was made easy with the swoosh stamp from Work of Art—a set I am happy to report is not retiring! Since the swooshes were stamped off I wanted another layer that was full strength Tempting Turquoise so I added some watery dots from the Dragonfly Dreams set

So, there are a mixture of sentiments from three different stamp sets. The front features an oldie but goodie from Delightful Dozen while the inside combines Petite Pairs and Teeny Tiny Wishes. I stamped another blended flower and using a mask added some more swooshes and Pear Pizzazz leaves.

Thanks so much for stopping by today….be sure to check all the lovelies from my teammies at The Paper Players. Maybe you will join us before our challenge closes on Friday, May 19^th at Noon (PST). Have a great day!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Sweet Cake for a Sweet Treat PP343

Hiya friends! Welcome to another week at The Paper Players where our lovely friend LeAnne is hosting a Theme Challenge this week:

Sweet Treats! So I went looking in my stash….I got a little sidetracked by all the STUFF in there, oh my! But I did find a retired stamp set called Sweet Cake that fit the bill and with all the May birthdays among my family and friends, I have another birthday card:

So cute…now I remember why I didn’t get rid of this stamp set! I wanted to use up some more of my designer paper and thought this cherry paper would coordinate perfectly with the cupcake. I covered my thick Whisper White base with this pattern from the [retired] Cherry On Top DSP stack. I used some [contraband] Wonky Stitched Rectangle dies from My Favorite Things to cut my focal panel out of Watermelon Wonder cardstock. My teammies all use these wonky stitched dies often and I just had to have them! I stamped the main image several times fussy-cutting each layer. First the whole thing was stamped in Pool Party and cut out. I then stamped again in Watermelon Wonder ink for the cupcake and Soft Suede on Crumb Cake cardstock for the cupcake liner. So you can’t tell in this pic but the cupcake, cherry and heart all sparkle with a liberal application of Wink of Stella—I mean really because if you’re gonna have a cupcake, it should sparkle, right?!

The inside needed a little something extra beyond just the stamping so I cut a frame from the same Cherry on Top DSP to decorate the sentiment. This sweet sentiment is from [yet another] retired set called Remembering Your Birthday and while I didn’t use pink on this card, I thought the sentiment fit well with the sweet treat theme of today’s card.

Thanks for stopping by today, friends! Be sure to check out the amazing inspiration from the rest of my teamies over at The Paper Players. Maybe you will be inspired to join us before our challenge closes on Friday, May 12th at Noon (PST). Talk to ya soon!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee