Happy Thoughts for PPA258 & PP251

I do love when a sketch challenge and a color challenge can come together to simplify the process of creating a card.  I had many of the components of this card pulled together for this week’s PPA Color Challenge when I realized they’d work perfectly with the sketch over at The Paper Players.  Yippee!  Showcasing All Boxed Up and Sprinkles of Life for these two challenges, here’s my card:

And here are the banners for the challenges that inspired my card:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• All Boxed Up.  How cute is this sentiment?!  If you aren’t buying the All Boxed Up kit, you might not have paid attention to this super-cute stamp set.  Even without the kit (which is cute for teacher gifts or small giveaways), the set has some fun sentiments.  Check them out – you click on the image below to get a closeup in my online store:
  

  All Boxed Up stamp set, Stampin’ Up!

• Tisk, Tisk, Rule Breaker.  I broke two rules while making this card – and I’m not ashamed of my defiance at all!  ONE – I added two colors to the three-color-challenge.  Not only did I add a Crumb Cake basket (neutrals are totally allowed), I added small spots of Daffodil Delight in my flowers.  The three colors are inspiration – although I primarily featured the blue and green on the card, the pink plays an important role.  The yellow and tan are just along for the ride.  TWO – I inked up my photopolymer with StazOn (the bushel of flowers) because I wanted to color in the flowers with my water-based Stampin’ Write Markers.  From what I’ve read, StazOn cleaner isn’t great for photopolymers, so I inked, stamped and immediately wiped with a baby wipe.  That stamp still has some black on it, but it’s not transferring to other colors or stamped images.
• Thick Whisper White.  If you haven’t tried the Thick Whisper White paper, you are missing out on one of life’s greatest inventions.  Even if you don’t want a firm white base for a card, the option to pop-up an element without backing it is great.  I would never send this popped-up flower punch on standard Whisper White – it would should show up bent and sad – but the Thick Whisper White gives me the assurance that my creation will arrive in good shape.
  

  Thick Whisper White Cardstock, Stampin’ Up!

Stamp Sets:  All Boxed Up, Sprinkles of Life  Papers:  Night of Navy, Cucumber Crush, Whisper White, Thick Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper Stack  Inks:  Night of Navy, Jet Black StazOn, Stampin’ Write Markers (Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush, Daffodil Delight)  Accessories:  Tree Builder punch, Circles Collection Framelits, 2-1/2″ Circle punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Hexagon punch (for banner tips)

I hope you’ll pop over to see the cards by the design team members and to play along with this week’s challenge (click on either of the banners above).

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

Good News!  The Watercolor Wishes Card Kit is now available.  When the Annual Catalog was released, this product was noted as “available in July.”  July is here, so ORDER AWAY!  The stamp set that comes with this kit is AMAZING!  Click on the picture below to see the item in my online store and to watch Stampin’ Up!’s featured video about this awesome kit.  Here’s a look at all you get:

Watercolor Wishes Card Kit, Stampin’ Up!