It’s My Party DSP – A Stamping Journey

When I was creating the other day I thought I would CASE a few cards from the catalogue for my upcoming Launch next week. This card started out as a CASE of a card on page 39 of the Occasions catalogue. It took a life of it’s own very quickly though.

This is the original card if you haven’t got your catalogue handy and then I will show you my card – and the thought process that went behind the making of it. 🙂

When I started to emboss with the World Traveler Embossing Folder I realised that the orientation of the World map on the folder was different to the card, and I didn’t want to double emboss the map to cover the card front. That’s what I would have to do to cover my size card front. I just couldn’t get my head around doing that. To me that is not how the world map is depicted. Petty I know but …. ??

So I thought I would change the orientation of my card but that’s when the whole card changed. I didn’t have the ‘Going Global’ stamp set but I could use ‘Guy Greetings’. That’s all good. But now that it was landscape what was I going to put on the front? It needed more than just a greeting. I stamped the anchor in Bermuda Bay but I couldn’t have it just floating there. I punched a tag with the Note Tag punch in Delightful Dijon. That colour was chosen after looking at the colours in the ‘Bohemian’ DSP. I looped up some Linen Thread and tied it in a bow and adhered that on.

The greeting is from ‘Guy Greetings’ and I stamped that on a piece of Whisper White and flagged the ends. But still it needed something more! I added a strip of the black arrow paper from the ‘It’s My Party’ DSP stack. It still needed more! I added just a strip of the silver Foil under the greeting. I just finished it off by sponging some Bermuda Bay ink over the embossed edges. OK, I think it was done now. I was going to brush over some Wink Of Stella in the Clear but decided to leave it.

See how you can take a card and use it as a springboard to create a completely different card. Sometimes you just need a little inspiration to get it going.

I hope I didn’t bore you with the whole creating process of this card. It just shows you what goes into creating at times. Maybe that will help you when you are in a rut.

Thanks for visiting today,

Jenny

BIRTHDAY CARD CLASS WITH PARTY WISHES

Saturday January 16th 2pm. Birthday Card Class. We will use the Party Wishes Bundle to make a set of birthday cards. We all need birthday cards right?? Here they are for you.

COST: $15 class only

Party Wishes Bundle

Get the Party Wishes stamp set and the Party Punch Pack. Get the Class FREE.

$68.50 Wood Mount or $56.00 Clear Mount. (Prices include shipping and handling).

BYO: Scissors and adhesives.

Please RSVP: Thursday 14th

TO ORDER THE KIT (Australian residents only).

If you can’t attend the class then order the card kit. Includes all cardstock and twine. Stamped images are not included. You can order the Bundle separately or substitute the stamps.

COST: Card kit Only $15

Order the Bundle: $15 (kit) + Wood Mount $71.20 or Clear Mount: $59.45 (Includes shipping and handling).

Jenny