Best Day Ever

5/4/24 Weekly Favorite (favorited by two fellow crafters) at Splitcoast Stampers!

Hi friends! I hope you are having the kind of beautiful weather we’re having out here in southwestern Colorado! I’m delighted to share that one of my projects was a top pick a few weeks ago over at Scrapping4fun Challenges. I was invited to guest design for an upcoming challenge, so here I am just in time for Challenge #235 – Wedding/Anniversary! I dug into my arsenal of SVG cut files and came up with this pretty church box card (cut file from SVG Cuts) to make for this challenge. I tailored it for a wedding by changing the wreath a bit, adding yellow vellum to the windows, and adding grass on the sides of the church. I love how it turned out!

Using my Cricut Explore Air 2 and the SVG Cuts Church Box Card cut file, I cut all the church pieces from CutCardStock Basis White cardstock and the wreath from 12×12 Cardstock Shop green and pink textured cardstock. I assembled the wreath, adding flower sequins and a white heart from the Keep It Simple Sprinkles Polymer Clay-Pink & White Hearts with Pearls mix.

Next, I die cut a grass border for each side of the church from the green textured cardstock using the Precious Marieke grass border die, and hand-cut small pieces of 12×12 Cardstock Shop yellow vellum for the front and side windows. The final touch on the front was adding a Tim Holtz idea-ology Small Talk sentiment sticker to the bottom steeple element.

For the back, I stamped a floral pattern on the frame using the Keep It Simple Simply Spring stamp set in Catherine Pooler Pink Champagne ink. I colored the florals with a few alcohol markers (to bring in the purple and pink in the iridescent flower sequins on the wreath) and added some Eyelet Outlet white glitter enamel dots. I stamped a tiny sentiment from the Trinity Stamps A Sentiment for (Almost) Everything stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on a Basis White scrap, trimmed it, and adhered it horizontally to the sentiment panel. The assembly is always the most fun, and I really enjoyed putting this one together. It was quite easy, actually!

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Products used:
CARDSTOCK/PAPER: CutCardStock Basis 80# 12×12 White cardstock, 12×12 Cardstock Shop Green Textured and Pink Textured cardstock and Yellow Translucent vellum
STAMPS: Keep It Simple Simply Spring stamp set, Trinity Stamps A Sentiment for (Almost) Everything stamp set
INK: Catherine Pooler Pink Champagne ink; Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends- MG1, DG1, LV1; Memento Tuxedo Black ink
DIES/PUNCHES: SVG Cuts Church Box Card SVG cut file, Precious Marieke Grass Border die
ACCESSORIES: Cricut Explore Air 2, Fiskars 12″ ProCision Rotary Bypass Paper Trimmer, Elmer’s Craft Bond Tape Runner, Bearly Art precision craft glue, MISTI stamp tool, Big Shot, Tim Holtz Alterations/Texture Fades Woodgrain embossing folder, Keep It Simple Sprinkles Polymer Clay-Pink & White Hearts with Pearls, Eyelet Outlet white glitter enamel dots, Tim Holtz idea-ology Small Talk sentiment stickers

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this project and will link up a wedding or anniversary project with us this time! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

Scrappy hugs,

Best Day Ever

Hi everyone! Happy Monday! Our new sketch challenges this month are live over at Stick It Down and I’m thrilled to be one of the Featured Designers! I’ve popped in this morning to share my Card Team inspiration project! Confessions Of A Paper Addict is our sponsor this month so come on over and play for the chance to win a prize! This is our super awesome card sketch this month, created by Laura:

Loving the CAS feel, I fell in love with this sketch almost immediately after seeing it. The ladies creating the sketches for our team are really rockin’ it! This one is amazing and worked up so quickly! It would be great to mass produce for card sets using stamps or cut files, or even hand-cut circles. ;)

I used the Messy Circles cut file from our sponsor (cut with my Scan N Cut) for this congrats card which I combined with some Tim Holtz idea-ology Snippets Ephemera and Botanical Layers, along with his Quotations Metallic sentiment stickers. I have loads of sequins in my stash and these pink ones in various sizes really fit the bill.

I embellished the inside panel with a couple leftover strips of cranberry cardstock used on the front and then layered the panel on the cranberry cardstock. I love these sentiment stickers – there are so many to choose from!

Here’s another look… I really love how this turned out!

Oh, what the heck… one more up-close shot so you can see that gorgeous pot of flowers and dimensional butterfly that looks like it’s fluttering off the card! ;)

Proud to enter this card into the following challenges:
A Bit More Time To Craft: #101 – Anything Goes
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: #10 – Anything Goes
Arty Divas: #5 – Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Challenge Blog: #10 – Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog: #103 – Anything Goes
Perfectly CAS: #1 – Flowers
Word Art Wednesday: Weeks #405-407 – Anything Goes
Your Scrapbook Place: October Anything Goes

Products used:
Cardstock/Paper: Stampin’ Up thick Very Vanilla cardstock, Stampin’ Up Blushing Bride cardstock, GKD Cranberry Tart cardstock, American Crafts Leaf cardstock
Dies/Punches: Confessions Of A Paper Addict Messy Circles cut file
Accessories: Tim Holtz idea-ology Snippets ephemera and Botanical Layers, Tim Holtz idea-ology Quotations Metallic stickers, WRMK pink sequins

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project and will link up with us! Feel free to play along with the double page or single page sketch if you’re a scrapbook layout designer, or the card sketch if you’re a card maker! You have until the end of the month to play and we’d love to see what you create! Be sure to check out all the fun goodies at Confessions Of A Paper Addict! Thanks so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

Scrappy hugs,
lesliesig