Creation Station, Father's Day

Anchors are very much in trend at the moment!  So when I had a special request to feature a masculine birthday card in my next class I reached for The Open Sea stamp set without hesitation.

I started with a Hello Honey and Night of Navy colour combination in mind.  I inked up my World Map background stamp for the first time in the yellow tone and sponged on some blues before spritzing with a little water and stamping onto white.  What a ended up with was an interesting background in a range of yellows, greens and blues.  I die cut a circle from the background and added it to some patterned Night of Navy paper and splashes of new in-colours Tip Top Taupe and Cucumber Crush.  

The tag features the birthday sentiment from the Butterfly Basics set.  For me, the fonts have a bit of a old-world/nautical feel to them and worked in perfectly for this theme.

When the current Creation Station challenge called for a Father's Day card I happened to have the remaining piece of the World Map background still on desk.  It was an interesting challenge to come up with a card using this leftover piece.

I went with a very similar colour scheme but this time instead of Hello Honey I went with the darker tones of in-colour Delightful Dijon.  The green is a bit deeper than Cucumber Crush, a strip of retired Gumball Green from my off-cuts stash. I've gone with a Night of Navy tag and added a Happy Father's Day greeting from the versatile Teeny Tiny Sentiments set.

I hope you have enjoyed these projects.  Hop along and follow the rest of the Creation Station team as they play with new catalogue goodies and share some of their Father's Day themed projects.

 

My next class is scheduled for Sunday 21st of June.  To reserve your place please email me. 

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Creation Station, Father's Day

June 7, 2015

In Class - August

With Father's Day just around the corner I thought it fitting to feature a selection of male cards in class this month.  The Well Worn Designer Series Paper is very masculine and provided a great platform for guiding the designs and colours of these three projects.

This first card uses imagery from The Open Seas Stamp Set available as of the 1st of September in the new 2012/13 Stampin' Up! Catalogue.  Class participants were able to try their hand at colouring with sponge daubers to create the soft ocean scene.  The intial layout for this design was inspired by Michelle Last. 

The instant I saw the brick wall paper I knew I wanted to create a design with some sort of 'graffiti' like feel.  The stamps featured here are from the retiring Grunge Rock Set.  The letters are die cut using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet (also retiring).

This third card showcases the Just Surfing Stamp Set and the technique of applying StazOn White ink to window sheet to create the featured waved backdrop.  We used the paper crimper to create the textured white background, another fabulous tool that is retiring this month!

All three cards have a sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments Stamp Set.  Class participants customised their designs with the sentiment that they wanted based on which events and men they were celebrating in their own lives in the near future.

If you have any questions about these projects or about future class dates please don't hesitate to contact me.

In Class - August

August 18, 2012