Today I'm sharing my design team card for our new challenge over at As you See It where it's time for our regular speed challenge, with a theme chosen by Jan:
Leaves - we've all got those in our stamp collection, right? I decided to go with a really simple two-colour card inspired by the combo over at Color Dare and featuring two leaves from one of my favourite current leafy stamp sets, Natural Botanicals - take a look:
Here's the low-down on today's card:
Natural Botanicals - The leaves in the 'Natural Botanicals' stamp set can be used in so many ways! Today I used one of the larger leaves to stamp the bottom half of my white panel with Pretty Peacock coloured leaves to create my own patterned paper (I masked off a border first with masking paper, but you could forgo this and save a little extra time) then using the same colour, added ink with a blending brush to create a solid block of colour. I added this panel to my white card base, then a leftover strip of Flirty Flamingo cardstock, before stamping another of the leaves in the set in Flirty Flamingo onto white cardstock, and diecut this with one of my trusty Stylish Shapes Dies.
Thankful Garden - Since Natural Botanicals is a sentiment-free set, I chose a thankful sentiment from another stamp set, 'Thankful Garden', and stamped this in Pretty Peacock directly onto my stamped pink leaf. The bold turquoise colour and large font is enough to stand out against the leaf beneath:
I added this to my card using dimensionals for a little lift, then added a trio of Pretty Peacock faceted enamel dots from my stash (having previously gone through my collection looking at all possible options before I started my timer, of course!) to complete my card.
Speed Stamping Addition - As always, the key to a speed stamping card is preparation: I had browsed my saved sketches to choose a layout before I started and gathered all possible supplies, opened my ink pads, mounted my stamps before starting the timer. So how long did my simple leaf card take?
Just 6 minutes and 48 seconds - plenty of time leftover, so I stamped the flap of my envelope to coordinate and still finished inside of the 10 minute allowance. OK, so my pink leaf isn't perfect (next time I'd use my stamp platform) but otherwise, I'm pretty pleased with how this card turned out - thanks Jan for a fun challenge!
Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:
You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any.
Here's a summary of our challenge rules:
- Create any card, scrapbooking page, 3D or packaging project that fits the challenge.
- For a Recipe Challenge use all elements of the recipe - the possibilities within those parameters are endless.
- For a Colour Challenge use all of the given colours and only those colours with these exceptions:
- White and Very Vanilla are free colours.
- In addition, you may use of ONE of these neutrals: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige.
- For a Speed Stamping Challenge you must tell us the time it took to make your project and it must be finished in under 10 min.
- Please include the challenge graphic and link back to the challenge in your post.
- Make sure you link the specific post and not the whole blog to the Linky. Use AYSI#(insert challenge number) when uploading to a public gallery
- Please turn off word verification so that we can send you lots of feedback.
- You can combine our challenge with up to 3 other compatible challenges.
- We do reserve the right to delete, or not consider for Top Pick and Featured Artist, entries that do not comply with these guidelines.
We look forward to seeing your creations in the AYSI gallery.
Enjoy your day and I'll be back tomorrow with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!
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