Paper Players Sketch Challenge, Follow Your Heart

Paper Players Challenge PP305, by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com, You're Sublime, Always an Adventure, all products by Stampin' Up!

Today I am sharing a card that I made for a challenge at The Paper Players.

It’s a pretty simple design and I wanted to give it a summertime theme.  Since we just came back from a camping trip, it was an easy decision to use the trailer from Stampin’ Up!’s You’re Sublime (#139309).  I added some mountains by using the Outdoor Adventure Framelits Dies (#141480) in both Emerald Envy and Cucumber Crush.  The trailer was stamped with Black StazOn ink on watercolor paper and then colored with an aqua painter using Peekaboo Peach, Watermelon Wonder, So Saffron, Smokey Slate and Flirty Flamingo.  It is all placed on a Pool Party background embossed with clouds.  The card base is Flirty Flamingo with a mat of Peekaboo Peach.

Paper Players Challenge PP305, by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com, You're Sublime, Always an Adventure, all products by Stampin' Up!

The trail sign is from Always an Adventure (#141547) and was cut with Outdoor Adventure Framelits Dies (#141480).  I think I accomplished my summertime theme and it’s making me want to take off on another camping adventure!  Thanks for visiting and I hope you liked my card!

 

 

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A Crabby Birthday with You’re Sublime by Stampin’ Up!

You're Sublime, by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com

Last weekend was a busy one for my Stampin’ Up! team, the Regal Stampers, as we had our annual Create-Your-Retreat weekend,  previously known as Scrapbook FunFest.  This retreat takes place each Spring at 7 Feather’s Casino in Canyonville, Oregon. Cropping attendance is 200+ and then there are “walk & shoppers” who just come for a few hours to shop, take a class or do a few make & takes offered at many of the vendor booths.  Croppers purchase table space and then bring their supplies to craft the weekend away…until midnight on Friday and 10 p.m. on Saturday! The convention center is huge and the room is lined with vendors, including our 30’x10′ booth. We have 3 make & take stations going around the clock with projects and demonstrators changing every 2 hours. It is a ton of work to prep for and I will admit to dreading it just a wee bit every year. BUT…once we get set up and the doors open, magic happens! The energy at the event is incredible and I’m always happy that I’m there, visiting, crafting and having a girls weekend with my team! I’m also amazed at how much stuff the croppers pack in.  There are some serious crafters out there! During sleeping hours there are security guards that protect our precious possessions.

 

So what does that have to do with this card, you ask?  Good question!  I used some left-over class supplies to make some cards that I’ll have for sale in our booth and this is one of them.  It uses the Joy Fold technique which you can find at SplitCoastStampers. 

The crab is cut out by hand and then I added some wiggle eyes.  I used some retired DSP, Maritime, along with Night of Navy card stock.  Here are some more pictures…

Joy Fold card by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com

Inside of Joy Fold card, by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com


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Lost Without You, Going Global Stamp Set

Going Global Stampin' Up! Occasions 2016 Catalog, Sunburst Thinlit, by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com

In my previous post from February 1, I said that I would show you what I did with the remaining sunburst panel.  After cutting out the 5.25″ x 4″ Sunburst in Daffodil Delight, I glued it to a Pumpkin Pie panel of the same size.  Then I trimmed off 2″ for the Beautiful Ride card (see Feb. 1 post) and that left 3.25″ x 4″ to use on this card.  It is glued to a Coastal Cabana card base which is one of our retired In Colors that I miss so much.

I love the banner that is from the Large Number Framelit set and will admit that I bought the entire set just to have that little banner.  Crazy, I know, but I have used it so much already!  The waves on the lower portion of the card are from the Cups & Kettle Framelit set.

I have always loved maps, something I credit my dad with.  My mom has never liked reading a map, so when we would go on a trip, my dad would hand the map to my brother, sister & I and we would figure out what he needed to know.  So when I saw the Going Global stamp set and the coordinating World Map embossing folder, it just spoke to me.  It will work together nicely with the World Map background stamp too, and will make some nice masculine cards.  Give me an atlas full of maps and I’m a happy girl 🙂

Would you like to see another version of this card using the You’re Sublime stamp set?  Here it is:

You're Sublime, Sunburst Thinlit, Stampin' Up! ,by Krista Thomas, www.regalstamping.com

The submarine was water colored and then cut out and adhered with dimensionals.


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