Hello there my stamping friends! I’ve had a bit of a busy week between moving at work and birthday fun at home (thank you for the birthday wishes!!) and all of that has kept me from my stamps until this afternoon!
The Fun Stampers Journey Coaches group I belong to has a fun challenge every week and I really wanted to play along with the sketch this week
so I pulled out some pretty stamps and paper and got to work!
Measurements:
- Card Base 4 1/2″ x 11″, scored at 5 1/2″
- 1st Layer 4″ x 5 1/4″
- Printed Paper Layer 3 3/4″ x 5″
Details:
- I switched up the hearts in the sketch for circles and added the piercing element as well. I had to use the largest size circle die to accommodate my elephant stamp so to create a bigger circle to layer it on to, I had to improvise. I cut the same size circle out of Pretty Pansy cardstock and then cut in in half. I then layered each half underneath my stamped image layer, matching up each half circle at the tip of the elephant’s nose and then rotating each half toward the back where the purple layer disappears. I accomplished a larger layer that way and you can’t even see the seam!
- The elephant and the sentiment are both from the Good Karma stamp set which can be found in the Spring into Summer Trends Mini Catalog. I stamped the elephant in River Rock, which is the lightest shade of Gray that FSJ carries. I adore the way the shading has been built into the rubber stamp so that it looks like I spent hours getting the coloring right when in reality I just stamped a stamp one time!
- And really, when have you SEEN such a beautiful elephant stamp!?! Love love love the images and fonts in this set!
- I trimmed off the left edge of my stamped circle to fit the sketch and then layered it onto the beautiful new Sunday Adventure Prints printed paper. Love the darling hearts with the map images inside!
- The pretty paper is layered onto Pretty Pansy cardstock and then onto the River Rock card base. I also snipped out matching banners to keep with the sketch and provide a base for the stamped sentiment.
- I got in really close so you could see these beautiful faceted gems, fittingly called Rainbow Drops. They are flat on the back just like enamel dots and are faceted like jewels on the top. And they come in six pretty colors! And they come in a wonderful clear storage container that can be reused for other goodies once I use up all the gems! But that might take me awhile as there are a total of 768 of these pretties in the container!! Yes, you read that right, 768!! 3 sizes for each of the colors! Amazing!
- A pretty twine bow is the final touch!
- Did you see the envelope liner I created? FSJ envelopes have a straight edge so it was easy enough to use one as a guide to create a matching envelope liner. Cause you know about me and pretty envelopes! 🙂
Together with maps inside the hearts and the sentiment, I feel that this makes a wonderful non-traditional graduation card. Adventure Awaits and the future is wide open!
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Supplies: (All Fun Stampers Journey products unless noted differently below)
Card Stock: Whipped Cream, Pretty Pansy, River Rock
Printed Paper: Sunday Adventure Prints
Ink: River Rock, Black Licorice, Pretty Pansy
Stamps: Good Karma
Dies: Journey Circles
Tools: Journey Platinum Machine; Journey Blooms Paper Trimmer
Embellishments: Rainbow Drops and Journey Natural Thread
Other: A-2 Whip Cream Envelopes
Hello from Maryland!!! This is just stunning…just beautiful! Your talent of clean and simple with sophistication is always a show stopper! Wishing you the best for your new venture!