Orange Poppies

Orange is one of those colors...love it or hate it. As for me, I think orange is a HOT color for summer!

I used orange, dark green, and white for this bright and cheerful card. To make your own:

1. Create a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch, top-fold card from Original ColorMates Cardstock Deep Spring Green. Set aside.

2. Trim a 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 inch panel from ColorMates Textured Twill Cardstock White.

3. Trim a 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 piece of Deep Spring Green cardstock and attach it to the center of the white twill cardsotck.

4. Trim a 5 x 3 3/4 inch piece of Original ColorMates Cardstock Deep Orange Dream. Emboss the panel with a Lattice Embossing Folder (Crafter's Companion). Rub the raised embossing with orange ink (Ranger Distress Dried Marigold).

5. Attach the orange panel to the center of the green panel. Wrap all layers with orange striped grosgrain ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon). Attach the panel stack to the card front.

6. Trim a flag banner shape from Deep Spring Green cardstock and attach it to the left edge of the card as shown.

7. Trim a smaller flag banner from orange decorative paper (Graphic 45 Eerie Tale) and attach it to the green banner.

8. Stamp the poppies image (Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps) onto  ColorMates Textured Twill White with black dye ink.

9. Color the image with colored pencils (Prismacolor) and alcohol markers (Copic). Trim to size and mat with Deep Spring Green cardstock. Attach the image to the card front with foam dots. 

10. Tie a "fancy" bow at the upper left edge of the image. 

11. Decorate the inside of the card. Trim 5 3/8 x 4 1/8 inch panel from ColorMates Textured Twill White cardstock and attach it to the inside of the card. 

12. Use a small square punch to punch seven squares of decorative paper in orange and green. Attach the squares in a diamond pattern at the bottom of the white panel.

13. Stamp a sentiment with black ink onto the white twill cardstock. Trim the sentiment with a circle die template (Spellbinders). Mat with a Deep Spring Green cardstock circle. Attach the circles to the top, center of the inside panel with foam dots.

Thanks for joining me today! I hope you will give the ColorMates Textured Twill cardstock a try! I love how it makes my image look as if it were stamped onto canvas...and water colored!

~ Gloria (Scraps of Life)

Supplies Used:
WorldWin Papers:
Original ColorMates Cardstock Deep Spring Green, Deep Orange Dream
ColorMates Textured Twill White

Embossing Folder: Crafter's Companion Lattice
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Ranger Distress Dried Marigold
Colored Pencils: Prismacolor
Markers: Copic
Dies: Spellbinders Standard Circles Large, Small; My Favorite Things Banner Flag Stax
Punch: Carl
Stamps: Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Precious Poppies
Ribbon: Really Reasonable Ribbon Orange Striped Grosgrain
Adhesive: Scotch 3M ATG tape; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Squares; Glue Dots

Let's Stamp Something!

For the last day of 2013....let's stamp something! I wanted to share with  you how great the WorldWin cardstock is for stamping! (I originally made this card for a guest spot for Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps. I think you will agree, that is is worth a second look!)

I created a 5x5 inch card with Treasures Pitch Black cardstock. The Treasures line is a heavy-weight, textured cardstock. I use vast quantities of the Pitch Black and Deep Brown! It is thick, rich, and has just the right amount of texture!

I used some pretty papers from Graphic 45 for my background. I pierced around the blue square (with an old Stampin' Up piercing template). Some of the piercing was a bit wonky, so I distressed the paper to hide it. (Hey, we all have our secrets!) I love the boat and map stamp from ODBD (Surging Sea). I stamped it onto ColorMates Original Light Totally Tan cardstock and matted it with blue designer paper. The Light Totally Tan cardstock is my go-to "not quite white" cardstock. It matches the vintage look of the card perfectly!

I stamped the sentiment onto a scrap of Light Totally Tan cardstock and die cut it with a circle template. I sponged some blue ink onto the paper before removing the template. That gave me a border all around the circle to follow with my piercing tool. You can see I did not do a perfect job, but close enough.

Images and sentiments stamp so nicely onto the cardstock! Can you see why I like it so much?!

My favorite part of the card, aside from the stamping, is the "crumpled" edge. I simply placed a bit of printed paper at the lower right corner of the card, then I folded back the other layers to reveal the revers of the printed paper! So easy!

I really love how this card turned out. It's masculine, but still pretty. I love how rich the WorldWin cardstock looks! (I dipped into my Graphic 45 French Country papers. I love the 8x8 and 6x6 pads!)

 I also decorated the inside of the card. I lined the card with more of the Light Totally Tan cardstock, and then added a border from printed paper. I stamped the image onto Light Totally Tan, die cut it, and sponged it with ink. I cut a mat from a scrap of Treasures Pitch Black.

I carried the piercing into the inside as well. I did a bit better job this time!

Thanks for looking! I hope all of you have only rainbows in 2014! Happy New Year!

~ Gloria (Scraps of Life)


WorldWin Paper:
Treasures Pitch Black
ColorMates Original Light Totally Tan

Other:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Sentiment Collection 2, Surging Sea
Designer paper: Graphic 45 French Country 8x8 and 6x6 pads
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black, Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk French Blue
Die cuts: Spellbinders Standard Circles Large and Small
Twine: Really Reasonable Ribbon
Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam squares; Scotch 3M ATG tape

Fall is Here with WorldWin Papers!

Katrina on the blog today to share a layout using almost nothing but various card stocks from the WorldWin Paper lines.  The rich colors were just dying for me to make a fall layout with them.  This project was also in the WorldWin Papers booth at this past Summer CHA trade show.

WorldWin Papers Used

Colormates-Deep Spring Green, Deep Orange Dream, Caramel

Elan Metallics-Mocha

Colormates Textured Ribbon-Café Ribbon

Colormates Textured Twill-Natural Twill

Colormates Textured Cascata-Yellow

Other items:  Tag-Chic Tags; Doily-Wilton; Twine-May Arts; Pattern Paper-Bella Blvd (Thankful); Flair-{a flair for buttons}; Adhesive-Therm O Web; Punch-EK Success

Silhouette Cameo with the following cut files

Fall is Here 

Design ID #21739

Sunburst Template

Design ID #41110

The papers cut beautifully either with a die cutting machine or with your punches.  This scalloped border is punched, not die cut. 

I love the rich chocolate color of the brown against all of the other colors.  It just makes everything pop!

Thanks for stopping by on a Friday!  Get to scrapping those fall pictures.  Fall will be gone before you know it and then you will have winter pictures to scrap!

Katrina Hunt
Paper, Scissors and Glue