The Nicest Things – The Paper Players 482 & TGIF Challenge 255

by Shannon Jaramillo // March 20, 2020 // 5 Comments

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Hello there and Happy Friday, my peeps!! It’s been raining here again in Southern California and the perfect reason to pull out some darling paper and an even more darling-er (if that’s possible) stamp image!!

Measurements:

Purple Posy Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
White Card Stock Layer 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″
DSP Layer 1 3/4″ x 5 1/2″

Details:

I recently acquired this stamp set, The Nicest Things, secondhand. It’s vintage Stampin’ Up! and so, so sweet. Those little girls – oh, I just can’t even!
Tons of coloring today so let me break it down for you
- The dress on the right is Light & Dark Purple Posy with a Light Mint Macaron Apron with Light Pretty Peacock detailing on the apron. The base for her hair is Dark Daffodil Delight with additions of Light & Dark Crumb Cake and Bronze
- The dress on the left is Light & Dark Mint Macaron with Light & Dark Daffodil Delight for the trim and the blouse. The base for her hair is Light So Saffron with additions of Dark So Saffron and Light & Dark Daffodil Delight
- The basket is Light & Dark Crumb Cake
- The grass is Light & Dark Old Olive
- Three of the flowers are Light & Dark Lovely Lipstick; the fourth flower is Light Mint Macaron and Light & Dark Pretty Peacock
- The girls’ skin tone is Light & Dark Petal Pink.

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To keep with the inspiration sketch, I added three Basic Rhinestones Jewels and colored them with Pretty Peacock and Blackberry Bliss.
The intricate detail cut to the left of the focal image was achieved by using the Delicate Lace Dies. I have been itching to try them out, I love it! What do you think? Yay or Nay?
I used two different patterns from the Best Dressed DSP line and incorporated the colors from that DSP when coloring my little darlings.

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The inside sentiment is from the Beautiful Friendship stamp set and pairs so well with the saying on the front. I can’t wait to send this out!

Two different challenges inspired today’s project, the first was the CAS (Clean and Simple) Flowers challenge over at The Paper Players (and I’m sneaking in just under the wire!) and the sketch challenge over at the TGIF Challenge. Thank you to both design teams for the awesome inspiration!!! XX

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Mint Macaron and Purple Posy; Neenah Solar White Classic Crest Cover 80#

DSP: Best Dressed

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: The Nicest Things and Beautiful Friendship

Alcohol Markers: Purple Posy, Mint Macaron, Pretty Peacock, daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Sa Saffron, Lovely Lipstick, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Ivory and Bronze

Dies: Delicate Lace

Tools: Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer (both retired)

Embellishments: Rhinestone Basic Jewels; Wink of Stella

Other: Whisper White Envelope

Cake is the Answer – The Paper Players 479

by Shannon Jaramillo // February 25, 2020 // 8 Comments

Cake is the answer – who cares what the question is! Right, lol?!? My favorite is COSTCO chocolate with chocolate frosting. I can lose my MIND around COSTCO chocolate cake. It’s a good thing I don’t encounter it very often now that I am retired! 🙂 Do you have a favorite?

Measurements:

White Card Base 4 1/4″ x 11″ scored at 5 1/2″
Petal Pink Card Stock Layer 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″
Lovely Lipstick Card Stock Layer 3 3/4″ x 4 3/4″
3 DSP Rectangles 3 5/8″ x 1 1/2″

Details:

Today’s project was built around this darling pattern paper (or DSP) Best Dressed from Stampin’ Up!. I love that one side of the DSP coordinates with the Dressed to Impress stamp set and that the reverse prints coordinate with the Beautiful Friendship stamp set.
Lovely Lipstick is the color that jumped out at me so I used it on the birthday cake, part of the sentiment and for the beautiful bow as well.
I have to admit struggling with using this cake image from the Piece of Cake stamp set. I kept stamping in with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then coloring it, using different combinations of colors each time. That’s when I realized that the image would be best stamped in a colored ink and voila! Love it! (Is it just me or does the cake stamp look like two macarons stacked one on top of the other?)
Do you recognize the ribbon I used? No? Well, that’s because the ribbon was originally WHITE and I colored it with my Dark Lovely Lipstick Stampin’ Blend alcohol marker! It’s a trick I learned long ago but with re-inker as the coloring agent. I MUCH prefer the alcohol marker method as it’s not quite as messy and dries almost instantly. The bit of ribbon I used here was from a product share I participated in and I definitely want to purchase a whole roll of this lovely ribbon – it’s a very nice width and SO easy to color! (If you want some as well, get it ordered pronto as it’s already on backorder and there’s always a chance it could sell out, it’s been very popular)

Don’t you just love the sentiment? I wanted it to stand out so I stamped it in Lovely Lipstick and then cut it out and adhered it at a candy angle. Who CARES what the question is?!? Makes me giggle every time I read it!
I stamped the cake stand in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then colored it in using a combination of COPIC and Shin-Han markers in very soft gray tones. I added shading with the darker color. The floral cake topper (which I thought coordinated very nicely with the floral pattern paper) was colored with a combination of Stampin’ Blends and Stampin’ Write Markers and then fussy cut it out. All three pieces were popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals onto a die cut scalloped rectangle, also popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To create the bow, after coloring it with my Stampin’ Blend marker, I wrapped it around three of my fingers, scrunched it up in the middle, and then wound another smaller piece of ribbon around it and pulled it tight into a knot. Super easy to do and makes quite an impression! Of course, it will get a bit smushed when put into an envelope, but even smushed, I think it will look quite lovely.

I used more sentiments from the same stamp set, as well as a heart, for the card inside and framed them out in Petal Pink.

Thank you to Ms. Leanne over at The Paper Players for her delightful sketch this week. I had SO much fun playing along!

Have a great rest of your week!

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Lovely Lipstick and Petal Pink; Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 80# and 110#

DSP: Best Dressed

Specialty Paper: None

Ink: Lovely Lipstick; Versamark Onyx Black & Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Piece of Cake

Alcohol Markers: Light & Dark Lovely Lipstick, Light Old Olive, Light Petal Pink, COPIC C00 & Shin-Han Twin Touch CG1

Dies: Stitched So Sweetly, Stitched Rectangle and Envelope Die (retired)

Tools: Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer (both retired); Cake Builder Punch, Old Olive and Petal Pink Stampin’ Markers

Embellishments: Whisper White 1/4″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon; Wink of Stella

Other: Whisper White Envelope

Hey Lady! – Freshly Made Sketches 417

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 11, 2020 // 4 Comments

Hey there, hi there, ho there…anyone else know what song those lyrics are from? 🙂

Today’s project features a number of products from Stampin’ Up!’s new Occasions Catalog and their 2020 Sale-A-Bration Catalog.

I absolutely adore this piece of pattern paper from Stampin’ Up!’s new ‘Best Dressed’ collection. I accented the bold color in the DSP with bold color in this darling flower stamp which can be found in Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Little Ladybug’ stamp set. I truly enjoyed coloring the flower with SU’s Lovely Lipstick Stampin’ Blends and then used thin lines of Dark Blackberry Bliss to deepen the color in the center. I then stamped, colored and fussy cut an absolutely darling little ladybug to sit on top of the flower (it makes me think of the smoking caterpillar on the mushroom in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ :))

and little Miss Ladybug pairs perfectly with the sentiment!! Oh my gosh – SO cute!!

I added Journey Glaze to the flower center as well as to little Miss Ladybug, and of course, Wink of Stella to the flower petals.

I love being able to use up every last scrap of DSP – don’t you? My piece of DSP was 6 x 6, so with a panel for the card measuring 4 x 5 1/4, I had a 6 x 2 piece left over which I used to cover the envelope flap. I also had a 4 x 3/4 inch strip left so with a strategic trim to one end of it, I was able to add it to the inside of my card. Waste not, want not, right?!?

And here’s a peek at the inside of the card:

This card will be going in Monday’s mail to my mom, I hope she likes it as much as I do!

The latest Freshly Made Sketches challenge was the inspiration for my layout:

I struggled with having the main panel all the way over to the far right, but that’s what challenges are for, right?!?

Thank you SO much for stopping by!

Supplies (all Stampin’ Up! unless otherwise noted):

Card Stock: Lovely Lipstick; Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 80#

DSP: Best Dressed

Specialty Paper: None

Ink: Versamark Onyx Black & Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Little Ladybug; Angel Policy by Honeybee Stamps

Alcohol Markers: Light & Dark Lovely Lipstick, Dark Blackberry Bliss, Light & Dark Old Olive, Dark Mossy Meadow, Color Lifter; CG2 & CG3 Shin-Han Twin Touch

Dies: Stitched So Sweetly, Stitched Rectangle and Envelope Die (retired)

Tools: Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer (both retired)

Embellishments: Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots, Gold Metallic Thread, Journey Glaze by FSJ; Wink of Stella

Other: Whisper White Envelope