WATER COLOR ONE SHEET WONDER - Retiring In-Colors

                                                                                                    

WATER COLOR ONE SHEET WONDER with 2022-2024 In-Colors

Today's focus is on the retiring In-Colors, 2022-2024, Parakeet Party, Sweet Sorbet, Starry Sky, Orchid Oasis, Tahitian Tide.  If you're new to Stampin' Up!, these are shades of the four color families that are revealed each year when the new Annual Catalog comes out in the spring. These colors are the focus of many of the new Designer Series Papers (DSP), along with coordinating cardstock, ribbons, embellishments, inks and markers.  

As a fairly new Demonstrator, but a paper crafter since I was a child, in order to have all the current colors of inks at my fingertips, I purchase the Stampin' Write Markers in the new In-Colors each spring, then invest in the ink pads of my favorite colors.  I recommend this to all new crafters so that they can have the colors without the big investment all at once.

My project today is with the use of the 2022-2024 In-Color Stampin' Write Markers.  They are water-based, and can be used just like ink.  I am drawn to inky techniques, especially water coloring, and the Stampin' Up! Inks - Stampin' Write! markers and the liquid refills are just perfect for this.

The design of my card today has been called a "one-sheet wonder" which does also apply to many other designs made with one piece of paper. I was inspired by the technique but I do not know who created this 4-on-a-page design. This OSW (one sheet wonder) is unique to each person who does it - no two prints are alike. You are the artist.  You are creating one 8 1/2 x 11 print that you will divide into four or more top layers for your cards.

All design patterns are meant as an idea.  You take the idea and make it your own - that is expected, that's why we share!  There's an acronym, CASE, which you often see, that describes this: C is Copy; A is And; S is Share; and E is everything.  And while it is expected that you will CASE the millions of designs you see, it is also expected that you will give credit to the person who inspired you to create your design. I prefer to say that I "was inspired by".  

The products listed are what I used but you can use what you have or what you are inspired to try.

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Here's the supplies I used:

1 - 8 1/2" x 11" piece of white cardstock, scored in quarters. Score at 5 1/2" on the 11" side; score at 4 1/4" on the 8 1/2" side - Do Not fold or cut.

Cardstock - white for the "one sheet wonder" print, 8 1/2 x 11", and one for your base - 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" is what I used.

Stippled Rose stamp Set 

Stamp Block

2022-2024 In-Color Stampin' Write Markers - I made one page each of the Starry Sky and Sweet Sorbet; combined Tahitian Tide and Orchid Oasis on one, then used the green (Parakeet Party) for the leaves on each.  

Water Spritzer

Paper Trimmer

Sentiments, Ribbons, Embellishments of your choice

Ink the Stamp like this: 

Mount your stamp on a stamping block of appropriate size.   (I prefer to use my hand as the stamping block, which gives me the flexibility of moving it ever so slightly to fill in a spot.) With the stamp face up on your work surface, use the wide or brush end of the marker; hold on a slant and rub it across the stamp, adding ink to areas. Make sure not to be using the tip of the marker.        

                                                           

This process is done quickly, like scribbling.  Because its artful, water coloring look, you aren't taking time to make sure you get only the leaves with green (Parakeet Party) or the rose petals and buds with only the red (Sweet Sorbet) or any of the three other colors (Tahitian Tide, Orchid Oasis, or Starry Sky). Scribble fast.  

Stamp your image to make your OSW print:

Now pick up your block with stamp and move it away from your work surface, spritz with a few squirts of water and quickly turn it over and stamp along the center score line of your paper.   Do this once or twice with each time you ink it with the marker and spritz with water.  Repeat the process until you have the entire piece stamped the way you wish.                                                              

The stamped images will dry quickly.  Once the entire sheet is dry and you're satisfied with the look, cut them into 4 pieces.  Trim your design accordingly and mount as the top layer on white or coordinating cardstock.   Add a second stamped image, ribbon, embellishments, and sentiments according to your design.

Here's my OSW (one sheet wonder) in each of the four In-Colors that are retiring April 30: Orchid Oasis and Tahitian Tide,  Starry Sky, Sweet Sorbet, then using Parakeet Party on each for the leaves images. 

Here are the cards I made with one piece of each of the OSW's. 

                                                                                    

Use a coordinating cardstock for the base or white.  

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Thanks for stopping by! Be Blessed! sb 

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Slim Tent Card with 2022-2024 Retiring Colors

 

CARD SKETCH 4-24 - Slim Tent - Susan Boback, Card Connoisseur

 Inspired by Tina Zinck, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Nova Scotia Canada                                                                 

This card is 2” wide by 11, scored in half at 5 ½” and designed to stand up.  You could cut 4 card bases with this pattern out of one 8 1/2 x 11" of cardstock. Add a die cut or punched piece to the front right as your focal point. The fun fact is that this piece will hide a similar image on the inside until its opened.

This design is appropriate for any reason, any season. Though the base is only 2" wide, the finished size is approximately the same as an A2 (4 ¼ x 5 ½) for envelope purposes.  

Card Base:  2" x 11”  scored at 5 ½” Blueberry Bliss cardstock.  I stamped the front with Stippled Roses Cling Stamp, VersaMark and used white embossing powder.  or  you could add a layer of paper to the front measuring 1 3/4 x 5 1/4".  

Here's the way it would look if you used only the VersaMark ink.

If you're new to heat embossing, I've included this photo below, so you could see how embossing looks.  Heat embossing is a process of using a sticky ink as a base, adding a fine embossing powder to it, then heating it with a heat tool (not a hair dryer) which causes the embossing powder to melt and become permanent on the paper. 

This photo shows the difference between the heat embossed roses (bottom) and the top roses with embossing powder before they are embossed.     Once you discover embossing, I think you'll enjoy the many ways to "step up" your cards. "Step Up" is adding more - texture, ink, embellishments, layers to your card designs.

Since we are focusing on Stampin' Up! 2022 - 2024 In-Colors, I used the Orchid Oasis and Parakeet Party, direct to stamp to add color to the roses, buds, and leaves.  I recommend getting the new In-Colors with each annual catalog.  Their uses are versatile, and having the five shades gives you coordinating colors to use with the new papers and embellishments without investing in all of the ink pads to start with.  Once you discover your favorites, you can order those ink pads. 

Direct to stamp is the way I prefer to add color.  I enjoy a water color look.  Don't take a great deal of time doing this.  Scribble back and forth with your marker on its side (as shown above) on the image and add the next color.  It does not have to be precise - it is art!

Then using the Spritzer with water, spritz a couple of times and quickly stamp your image on Water Color Paper. When dry, die cut or hand cut the roses image.  Don’t attach to the front till you glue on the inside image.

(The advantage of using the water color paper is that you won't see the stamped image on the other side when you open the card as shown below.) 

 

Inside bottom image: BEST if its slightly smaller than the front image, so its not visible till you open the card.  Decide what your inside image will be - it too will stick out to the right of the base - then you can arrange and glue the outside image so it will hide the inside image. 

NOTE: Both the outside image and inside image can be no wider that 2 ¼ to fit in an A2 envelope.   

Ribbon:  depending on your theme – tie around the top about 1 inch down from the fold. 

This last photo shows how the outside and inside images line up, looking from the back.   Once you make a Slim Tent, I think you'll be looking through your stamps and dies to see how to make a card that surprises someone.   

Sentiment:  add to the outside and inside. 

Here is another Slim Tent card I made with the 2022-2024 In Colors of Tahitian Tide and Parakeet Party.   I used one of my favorite stamp sets, Sea Turtle, clear embossing powder, cardstock and Stampin' Write Markers.  I'd love to know if you will try this design. Thanks for stopping by.  Check out more projects on my website, Instagram or join Card Connoisseurs - Card Making with Susan Boback on Face Book.

                                 

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FLIP the STRIP - a paper quilt-look card design

     

                                        
                                                 

                                        "FLIP the STRIP" created by Susan Boback

Strip cards are one of my favorite card designs, especially for two reasons:

1)  Using up your paper pieces at the end of a season or catalog

2)  Putting together papers in a design that is revealed as it goes.

Strip cards can be by one color family or by using the various prints in one theme package of Designer Series Paper.

Take a look at these Strip Cards first.  Then I'll show you how to "Flip the Strip" and make a varied design, and how it came about.

Here are a few Strip Cards

                                            

 

So now that you've seen how Strip Cards look, you will understand the concept for my idea, "Flip the Strip".

After Christmas I sorted out the colors of papers, greens, reds, and blues.   Often the papers are matte prints on one side and metallics on the other. I was hoping to find a way so that I didn't have to cut the strips and then re-align the pieces to set them together in the pattern.

As I was lining up the strips, I folded one in half at a right angle, which revealed the reverse and made the strips look like two strips - this was the initial "Flip the Strip."

                                            

                                                

Take a 1/2" piece x 6" or longer.  Fold it in half at a right angle - now that reveals both sides of the paper.  Line them up in a "V" shape on a solid piece of cardstock that will reveal an "arrow" of color that makes the pattern too.   Use 4 or 5 pieces to build your pattern.   Add this finished piece to a layer or attach to an A2 or 4 1/4 x 5 1/2" base.   

The ultimate look to this is to emboss it to add texture which makes it look "quilted." Use a small, close design for this look.

                                                        

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I LOVE BIRDS - Box, Card and Treat Holder

I love birds!  I have since I was a kid.   With the release of the Flight and Airy papers for Stampin' Up! Sale A Bration (Jan - Feb 2024), the bird designs and images are so fun and springy. 

Here are my projects for Leap Day Fun Day, an in-person event I held just for fun - with birds!

CARD SKETCH 2-24 - SUSAN BOBACK, CARD CONNOISSEUR 

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MILK CARTON BIRD HOUSE BOX, BIRDHOUSE CARD AND  BIRD TREAT HOLDER

Inspired by stampin-n-stuff.blogspot.com. This is the same design as a candy box, and can be made as small as a 1x1 cube or this 3x3. This pattern also works well with Cardstock, perfect for candy, cookies or a small gift.

Supplies: 1 – 8 ½ x 11 Designer Series Paper or cardstock, Tear & Tape, Glue, Circle Punch or Die, Window Sheet, Binder clip,  Die Cut Birds

On 11” side: score every 2 5/8” to 10 ½” (2 5/8, 5 ¼, 7 7/7, 10 ½”) You’ll have 4 sections that are 2 5/8 and the last section will be ½”. The 4 sections form the cube, the structure of the milk carton/bird house.  The ½” is the tab to connect them into the cube shape.  (If you made the candy box, this part is the same).

On the 8 ½” side:  score at 2 1/8”, 5”, then 8”. The first section at 2 ½” creates the tabs for the bottom of the milk carton birdhouse. The last ½” creates what becomes the “roof” or the top of the milk carton bird house.

Punch or Die cut the bird hole: in the first section, opposite end of the ½” tab.  Cut a piece of window sheet that is 2 ½” x 3.  Attach on inside, top & bottom with Tear & Tape.

Fold on all score lines.

On the 11” side, at what is the bottom, where the 2 1/8” x 2 5/8” section is: cut on each 2 5/8” score line across, then cut an angle piece on each side of these pieces so it will fold together better.  On the last section, ½”, cut and remove the piece that is 2 1/8 x ½”.   

Fold all remaining score lines, so that you create a box.  Add Tear & Tape to the ½” flap, then attach it to the other end which makes a cube. 

Fold up the four bottom tabs – 2 1/8” x 2 5/8 – one on top of the other, adding a small dab of glue to secure them to each other. This will complete the structure of your milk carton birdhouse.  The top will remain open for you add some Easter eggs or in this case, I added a mini size Nivea hand cream because not everyone can enjoy sugary treats.   Use a binder clip on top. (Amazon - check out my list)

Make a Bird Treat Holder or attach it to the front of a card and draw legs.                                                  

Make a bird to add to a card or to hold a wrapped candy treat.   Take a ½” to 1” x strip of paper. Fold it over and tie in a knot. Cut a tail on one end and beak and head on the other. Attach it to the front of a card, draw legs, or slide a small wrapped candy in the body.  

To tuck a wrapped candy in the bird, add one or two glue dots to the inside of the knot, but in front of the white bird body as shown here.  

I love cardinals.   I found the "Red Bird" mints, and with two glue dots attached it under the knot of the red bird.   

BIRD HOUSE CARD inspired by Jacquie Williams, Demonstrator, NZ

Using the same size of cardstock for a standard A2 card base,  (4 1/4" x 5 1/2") make this cute shape, perfect for a birdhouse, dog house, or a house warming card, in any color. 

Card Base:  5 ½ x 4 ¼” Find the center of the front, 2 1/8”, top edge, make a mark. Find the center of the 5 ½” sides at 2 ¾” and make a mark.  To make the peak, open the card and lay it flat. 

Cut from the center top on an angle to the half mark on the outside edge AND to the half mark on the fold edge. 

NOTE:  if you want the roof design on both pieces, front and back, don’t cut it at the same time, but make the half-way points on the back piece as well, then cut it after the front piece is cut. 

Before you glue on any images, use an embossing folder to add texture.  A woodgrain design would be perfect.  I used the Forever Fern embossing folder. 

Cut a vine shape for the roof edge.  Stamp inside if desired. Add a hand cut bird from Flight & Airy papers, a stamped image or use a punch art bird; flowers: die cuts or punch art. 

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