It seems I am having a cute and colourful card making weekend. After yesterday, I was thinking of all my card stock which was bright and colourful – and I have a lot. I am trying lots of new styles and techniques at the moment, and as well as messy crafting or mixed media, I am starting to use some dies and stamps which are more cute and fun, which means I can use any colour card I want to represent anything at all.
Today, I have taken inspiration from a sketch challenge from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, and had a play with coloured card. I recently purchased a set of dies from Hochanda, a UK craft channel. I believe it can be watched around the world, but really not sure.
This bundle is designed by Katie Skilton for Sizzix, and includes the dies I have used for this card. This set is called ‘Under the Sea’ – I am sure you can see why! I have also used the sentiments which came in the bundle ‘Tribal Words’.
The base card is 7 inches square, and again used my Sue Wilson Noble Stitched Squares to cut a slightly smaller square out of light blue. I again embossed this with the ‘Rain’ embossing folder from Crafters Companion. I think the rain could represent anything, and this time, for me, it represents bubbles in the sea.
I die cut the whales out of some Create and Craft card stock, which has a toning colour on the opposite side, so I could match the colours without thinking too much about it, and added several other elements from the same die set – the fish and the heart.
The circles, as per the sketch, I used the Lawn fawn ‘Slide on over’ circles. These were designed for slider cards, as the dies cut the circle itself, and cuts out the channel which makes the slider card. This is how I managed to get circles which matched each other, and outer circle rim shapes for the other components required to meet the sketch challenge.
The two solid circles I also embossed with the same embossing folder. I layered the outer circles flat to the card, but raised the other elements on Stampin Up dimensionals. I die cut the sentiments and ran them through my Xyron sticker maker so I didn’t have to fiddle with glue on all the letters. This little machine is great for sentiments and other fiddly elements as it is only 1.5 inches wide, whilst the bigger 5 inch and 9 inch machines are good for the more intricate and elaborate dies for layering.
Deciding where to put each element was a challenge but I like the fun and vibrant end result.
I will also be entering this card into the Just Us Girls challenge with the theme ‘Sea’, and Catch the Bug challenge blog ‘Anything goes’.
Thanks so much for playing along at Catch the bug blog for our April Anything Goes! I love your project and hope to see you soon!
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Thank you, Tammy
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How cute is this, thanks so much for playing in our Anything Goes challenge this week at Catch The Bug!
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Thank you Stephanie.
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Your title is perfect – a cute card!! I love the colour and sentiment choices. Thanks for playing with us at Atlantic Hearts.
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Thank you, Jennifer. The colour choice was a different way to go……from my usual.
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Cute and fun…love the colors and texture! Thank you for playing along with us at Catch the Bug!
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Thank you, Angela
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Great colors and layout Love the word dies at the bottom too! Thanks for being in our gallery this week at Just Us Girls and we hope you will join us again soon!
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Thank you very much.
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love those tribal word dies! I will be looking for those! and I love the whales, too! thanks for joining us at AHSC!
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Thank you, Alicia. I did have fun with the colours and dies as well as the layout
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Love that embossing background and that the bubbles were also embossed…really fun and adorable card. Thanks for sharing with AHSC, and please come back for this week’s challenge.
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Thank you, Suzanne.
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