I made this hard for myself because I had 2 new items that I was determined to use on this card. The first was the navy cardstock. I've been looking for a dark navy for some time because I loved Nightshift Blue from MFT Stamps, which is no longer available. I bought a couple of different ones online to test and found In The Navy by Gina K to be the best match to what I was after. So of course, I had to make a card with it! The second item is the circular hot foil die. I bought the hot foil machine for my Gemini Junior about 6 weeks ago and have been waiting, not so patiently, for some Spellbinders dies to come from the US. Finally they arrived and I had in mind to use this circle dot one for this week's sketch.
The card is pretty self-explanatory. Originally I intended to have rainbow circles in place of the stars and actually die-cut tiny circles from the navy panel and backed each circle with a rainbow color, then I didn't like it, so covered the holes up with sparkle cardstock stars. Remember I said I made this hard on myself? This card took me about 4 hours start to finish!
Here's the sketch we have to work with this week. The DT have some gorgeous cards that I'm sure didn't taken them 4 hours to make!
Products used:
Stamps: More Essential Sentiments (MFT)
Ink: Versamark
Cardstock: White, In The Navy (Gina K), Silver Sparkle (MFT), Silver Hot Foil (Spellbinders)
Dies: Blueprints 21, Blueprints 8, Pierced Fishtail Flag Stax (MFT), Essential Glimmer Circles (Spellbinders)
12 comments:
Yep it seems sometimes cards have their own way of doing things and take you down a totally different path! But your result is still fabulous! Love the color and the diecut!
Karren, I can't thank you enough for your trial-and-error shopping for the perfect navy blue card! Now, what do we do with all those that didn't pass muster? lol
LOve your navy/silver combo - and that circle of foiled dots is spectacular!
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The "simple" cards are sometimes the hardest ones! I love how this one turned out though!
The final result is worth the time put in because this card is CAS perfection!
What a gorgeous birthday design.
Hugs Diane
So delightful Karren. CAS is awesome
I'm quite familiar with cards that take 4 hours to make, sadly. But the end result is always worth it! I love the this little birthday card :)
So, you're hot foiling now, eh? I love your new navy cardstock and how well it works with silver! Fabulous CAS design, Karren...it was worth every minute of time that you spent creating it!
Oh I just love that blue and silver!! So pretty! Hot foil?! Oh, it's amazing! I don't need hot foil, I don't need hot foil, I don't need hot foil!!!
Wow, Karren! What a CAS beauty! So simple and so striking at the same. That's definitely CAS perfection.
I absolutely love this - and love that little row of tiny stars! Everything is perfect.
What a gorgeous clean and simple design, Karren! 4 hours- that is about the norm for me, sad to say. And some I still don't like.
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