Stamping With Friends August Blog Hop Shapes

It's time to hop along with the Stamping With Friends August Blog Hop and this month we are exploring shapes to create our projects. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to get creative with shapes. 

Adding shapes to your projects is a great way to add texture and interest to the design. For my card design, I decided to use the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack to step up the sentiment label for my clean and simple card design. I love the way the shapes frame the birthday sentiment to help it stand out and become the focal image for this card design. It's a great way to dress up a card without covering up the pretty designer series paper background.

Products Used:

Inked & Tiled Bundle (item #161168)

Inked Botanicals 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #161157)

1 3/4" Circle Punch (item #119850)

Lost Lagoon Cardstock (item #133679)

Pretty Peacock Cardstock (item #150880)

Pool Party Cardstock (item #122924)

Pretty Peacock Classic Ink Pad (item #150083)

Pool Party 3/8" Grosgrain Ribbon (item #160430)

Iridescent Pastel Gems (item #160429)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Lost Lagoon Cardstock 

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Circle punched out with the 1 3/4" Circle Punch

Pool Party Cardstock

Sentiment Label punched out with the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack

Pretty Peacock Cardstock

Strip - 3" x 1 1/4" Ends punched with the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack

Inked Botanicals Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" 

I love creating clean and simple card designs with pretty designer series paper and for this card I wanted to use the Inked Botanicals 6"x6" Designer Series Paper for my background. The pattern I chose has a wonderful monochromatic floral design and I wanted to add a sentiment that would stand out without overwhelming the card design. The punches in the Inked & Tiled Punch Pack coordinate to add wonderful shapes that help frame the birthday sentiment and I love the clean and simple lines they add to the design. I combined them with the 1 3/4" Circle Punch using a combination of Pool Party, Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock cardstocks that coordinate with the designer series paper. To create the ends for the Pretty Peacock cardstock strip, I used the cross shaped punch to create the points that coordinate with the star shape of the sentiment label. To finish off the design, I added a piece of Pool Party Grosgrain Ribbon to layer underneath the sentiment and some Iridescent Pastel Gems for a touch of sparkle. As you can see from this card design, shapes can be used to frame sentiments and add a little structure to an otherwise soft and pretty design. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to use shapes to create your own wonderful projects. There are so many options to explore. 

Please take the time to visit my fellow Design Team members by clicking the links in the Roll Call List below. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
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ICS June Blog Hop Punch A Bunch

It's time to hop along with the ICS June Blog Hop as we showcase the wonderful punches in the 2023-2024 Annual Catalog and Online Exclusives products. There are so many wonderful options to choose from to help you get creative. Our talented Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help spark your creativity to help you create your own beautiful projects.

For my card design, I decided to use the Inked & Tiled Bundle which has two geometric shaped punches. I must admit, when I first saw this bundle in the catalog, I wasn't sure what to make of it. Then I started seeing other Demonstrators show how the two punch shapes interlocked and my brain went into overdrive. I had so much fun creating this pretty floral card design and working on the "puzzle pieces" to create the design. The floral images and sentiments in the coordinating stamp set are wonderful and I am officially a fan of the Inked & Tiled Bundle. I hope you will be too. 

Products Used:

Inked & Tiled Bundle (item #161168)

Stylish Shapes Dies (item #159183)

Lost Lagoon Cardstock (item #133679)

Pretty Peacock Cardstock (item #150880)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Lost Lagoon Classic Ink Pad (item #161678)

Petal Pink Classic Ink Pad (item #147108)

Calypso Coral Classic Ink Pad (item #147101)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (item #155555)

Festive Pearls (item #159963)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Lost Lagoon Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" stamped with the leaves image using Lost Lagoon Classic ink and punched out 6 with the X Punch

Pretty Peacock Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Sentiment Label die cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4" stamped with the floral images and punched out 6 with the Star Punch

The focus of the card design is the interlocking pieces that create an almost quilted look for the background. I stamped the leaves onto a Lost Lagoon card front with Lost Lagoon Classic ink and then punched out 6 of the X style punch. For the alternate pieces, I stamped a Basic White card front with the different floral images using Petal Pink, Calypso Coral and Lost Lagoon and then punched out 6 of the star style punch. I arranged the pieces onto the Pretty Peacock cardstock piece and adhered them so that there was a gap between each of the pieces. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image with Gold embossing powder onto the Pretty Peacock label and attached it to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals towards the bottom right corner. I attached the card front to the Lost Lagoon card base with Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up. To finish off the card design, I added two small Gold pearls from the Festive Pearls, on either side of the sentiment. I love the watercolor look that the stamped images creates on the cardstock to create a soft and pretty design. This was a fun design to create and I can't wait to experiment more with these punches. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design has inspired you to explore the wonderful world of punches and all the options they have to offer. 

Now it's time to visit Joni's blog and see what she has to share with us. Just click on the Next button to visit her blog to see her wonderful projects. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you think about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
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