Mel Sanz - In a Crafty Mood: SSS

Monday, January 3, 2022

Crushing on Cardstock - Day 1 - Hey how you doin?

Hello my crafty friends, it's been a while since I posted anything but here I am again with a brand new project.

For today's card, I was inspired by Christina's Day 1 - Creating Patterns - Smile Card from the Crushing on Cardstock Class. I had so much fun taking this class and in the next few posts, I will be showing you my take on the class.

In case you are interested in the class, here is the link https://www.onlinecardclasses.com/

To create the plaid pattern, I used Stampin Up Cardstock in the color Pool Party and Crushed Currey. The Giraffe is from Whimsy Stamps set called "Giraffes Peeking" and was colored with the following Copics:

Yellow - YR2, YR33, Y6, Y11

Brown - Y13, BR1, BR3

Here are the sizes of my panels:

Checkered Panel - Stitched Rectangle Die 3 5/16 x 4 9/16

White Panel - Stitched Rectangle Die 3 6/8 x 5

Black Panel - 4 1/16 x 5 5/16

Cardbase - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 folded at 4 1/4

To add dimension, each panel were stacked twice. The sentiment was white embossed on Black Cardstock and is from the Whimsy Stamp set "Hey Ostrich".

Black Cardstock is from Simon Says Stamp "Black8" and the white is Accent Opaque 100 lbs.

I hope you were inspired to create, have a great day and see you soon.

Monday, April 5, 2021

JDS - Love You!

Good Day my crafty friends!

I hope you are enjoying the lovely weather as much as I am, let me say that it does feel good not to freeze for a change.

It's time for another beautiful DT Card for the wonderful Jan from Jan's Digital Stamps. This weeks card was made using the My Mom's stamp and below are the products I used to make it come together.

Love You!

First step on this wonderful journey was to go to Jans Digi Stamp Shop and download the My Mom stamp. I highly suggest that you head over the site to grab yours as it's on SALE fort the month of April. Did I say SALE?? Yes I did! There are also a few other wonderful new stamps who are also on sale so go check it out!

For this specific card, I resized the image to approximate 2.07" x 1.97" so that it would fit in the heart shape die. I then printed it on my Accent Opaque 80lb cardstock and colored it with my Ohuhu Markers.

Here is my list of markers:

Brown Hair - Y13, BR1, BR2

Blond Hair - YR2, YR33, Y6, Y1

Pink - P1, RP1, RP6, R15

Blue - PB4, PB2, PB1

Skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

Once I was done coloring my image, it was time to cut my different layers of cardstock.

Here is my list of cardstock with their dimensions:

Base Card - Accent Opaque 100 lb 4 1/4" x 11" scored at 5 1/2"

Navy Panel - Stampin Up Night of Navy 4" x 5 1/4"

Dark Red Strip - Stampin Up Black Berry Bliss 4" x 1 1/2"

Pattern Paper Panel - Simon Says Stamp - Love You Monthly Kit 3 7/8" x 5 1/8"

The heart was made with the largest die from Simon Says Stamp Hear Animal and to crate the border, all I did was to cut a heart on the Night of Navy cardstock and then place the die back in place and trace around the outside of the die which created the perfect frame. I then used my scissors to cut it out.

It was then time to use all the other dies from my die set to cut the other smaller hearts and the Sentiment. Everything was then stacked a few times to create dimensions using scrap cardstock and voila, my card was done.

I have to say that it's very difficult for me to use pattern paper but I have been stepping out of my comfort zone lately and it feels good.

I hope my card will inspire you to create! As always, I encourage you to go check out the Challenge Blog to see the rest of the DT creations. We would love to see you join in on the fun so please show us your creation for a chance to win. Please remember that you can enter up to 5 Times per Challenge. All the details are on the Challenge Blog.

Be sure to follow Jan's Website in order to get notified when Sales and Freebies are announced.

Stay Healthy, take care and thanks for stopping by!

Mel Sanz - In a Crafty Mood