Suite Showcase no. 6 - Ready to Ride

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This week’s Suite Showcase focuses on Ready to Ride. I have to confess, I haven’t purchased the stamp and dies as I don’t feel that I would use them to their full advantage, however, I am going to show you what I’ve made using just the designer series paper (DSP). The DSP in this suite lends itself to both masculine and feminine cards. 

For my first card here, on a Pumpkin Pie card base, I used the gas/petrol station scene from one of the DSP sheets that has a number of images on that can be cut down to create toppers. I simply layered it on some Basic Black. I used one of the other DSP sheets for the card base layer. I pulled out the Biggest Wish stamp set for a more masculine sentiment and stamped on Very Vanilla. 

For the next card, I again used Pumpkin Pie for the card base, I mat and layered a piece of DSP that looks like metal on black. Then used 2 more of the ‘toppers’ from one of the DSP sheets – the rose and one of motorbikes. I pulled a sentiment from Simply Fabulous and stamped this on Soft Suede. 

For my next card, I used Soft Suede as my card base and cut a matting layer also in Soft Suede. I embossed this piece using the Metal Plate 3d embossing folder from the suite and then using some more of the topper elements from the DSP sheet, I layered 3 of them up; then I fussy cut a bike from another sheet of DSP and adhered this to the card on dimensionals. I thought this would make a nice Father’s Day card, so I pulled the sentiment from Celebrating You. I black heat embossed the sentiment on Soft Suede. 

Moving on to more feminine cards, I kept the same colour scheme as those in the DSP. I used a Basic Black card base with a layer of the checker board DSP. I embossed a piece of Pumpkin Pie using the Metal Plate 3d embossing folder but I blended some Pumpkin Pie around the edges to soften the colour a bit. I then cut a banner shape from the roses DSP. The sentiment came from the Favoured Flowers stamp set. This was white heat embossed on black. I finished all of the above cards off with some of the Adhesive Backed Studs. 

For my most feminine card using the DSP, I used the roses DSP and adhered this at an angle on my Basic Black card base. I then cut a Basic Black layer to the same size as the card base. To make the valley in the middle, I then marked on the Basic Black layer, where the roses DSP came to and marked it. Then I cut from the top left corner to each of the marks using my paper trimmer. I then adhered a strip of Polished Pink cardstock to both black pieces, to give a flash of colour and trimmed the edges before adding both pieces to the Pretty Flowers embossing folder. I added these to the card base on black dimensionals. To finish the card, I stamped 3 of the smaller flowers from Fragrant Flowers stamp set. I added a pop of Polished Pink using my blends and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. I fussy cut these out as I didn’t want a white border around the edges of the flowers. The sentiment I pulled from the Simply Fabulous stamp set, which was white heat embossed on black and I finished the whole card off with some Polished Pink ribbon and some Iridescent Pastel Gems.

Please head on over to Alison's blog at The Inkspirational Crafter, to check out what she's been making with the suite.

If you want to recreate any of these projects, the list of products I used are below. See you next time!

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Father's Day Card

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Thank you for stopping by. It's Father's Day here in the UK on Sunday so I thought I would share with you the card I made my dad.

I used a combination of stamp sets to create this card. The background is made using the stamps from the Oceanfront set in Balmy Blue, Coastal Cabana and Sahara Sand.  The deckchairs and umbrella are from a new set - Sunkissed, that will be available in the new mini catalogue from July.

I stamped the palm trees from Paradise Palms to one side to create the illusion of them peeking in from behind the frame as well as the sun peeking from the top right.

For the frame, I used the largest and third largest stitched rectangle from the Stitched Rectangles Die Set to cut the frame from Soft Suede. Using some post it notes, I masked off the corners at an angle on the top and bottom of the frame; and  stamped the wood effect stamp from the Whiskey Business stamp set, on the edges numerous times on the masked sides. To give it a more realistic feel, I blended some Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Early Espresso. Then removed the masks and repeated the process on the sides.

Last minute, I decided to turn it into a shaker card, so I stamped the sentiment from Celebrating You at the top. The additional sentiment at the bottom of the card was from a retired set, Handsomely Suited, but I'm sure you have something in your stash equally as perfect for the occasion. Adding the window sheet to the frame and added adhesive foam strips around the outside to create the depth needed. I used some old sequins to use them up for the shaker so raid your stash to see what you can use. Then the background piece can be added to back of the frame.

To put the card together, the card base is Soft Suede. I embossed a piece of Crumb Cake using the new 3d Fern embossing folder and for a little extra detail, I also cut from Coastal Cabana the strip die from Paradise Palms and cut in half so I could layer behind the shaker element. And of course, I had to add some twine to finish it off.

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