clean and simple sunday no.70

I received the Mar/Apr issue of PaperCrafts magazine this week. When the issue comes, I grab my sticky notes and a pen and start going through it. I look for overall card designs or design elements that I love, I look for color combinations that strike me, I look for great use of embellishments that spark my own creativity, making notes on the stickies to use the magazine as a way to fuel my own creativity…

With that, I bring you this week’s clean & simple card design. If you too, have the latest issue of PaperCrafts, you’ll see that my design for today was inspired by the “hogs & kisses” card on page 36.

For my card above,  I used some of the retiring gingham card stock in bubblegum. I also used the medium butterfly from the Butterflies Trio die set and some of the new grapefruit baker’s cord to embellish. The sentiment is from the Essential Sentiments stamp set.

This card would be very quick and easy to replicate using different patterned (or solid!) card stocks and different die shapes to cut out, like stars for boys, hearts for Valentine’s or anniversary cards… or for any holiday using the dies from the candy box dies set.

A clean and simple design to start your week and another idea for building on that birthday card stash!

color challenge wednesday no. 26

The color challenge for this week encourages you to try yellow-green, red and black in a card design (A|S colors: wasabi, cherry and onyx)…

This card features the A|S stamp set Charming Gardeners. I used the leaves and one of the flower centers to create a pretty flower grouping. I stamped the flowers in cherry ink, full-strength and then moved the stamp slightly left or right and stamped off the ink again to create the pinkish tinted flowers. The sentiment came out of the Say It With Style set.

I hope you can enjoy some time stamping this week and give this striking color combination a try in your own projects!