Just Beachy à la “Cards” Magazine

You may be wondering about the strange title of my post today.  Over the last 6 months I’ve really become a fan of the very trendy Cards Magazine – it’s a totally different style of card-making than what I’m used to as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator – and very different from what you see on a typical Stampin’ Up-product focused blog.  I’m not even sure how one would describe that style of card-making…the term eclectic comes to mind. Rather than a stamped image being the main focus of the cards, the card is composed a variety of different elements – patterned papers, die cuts, stickers, ribbons, buttons, brads, chipboard, letters…you name it!  So today I decided to try something totally fun and totally different from my normal style of stamping and card making….this is the end result.  It’s definitely different, but I really like it. 

Here’s how I made it:

1. Take a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Tempting Turquoise Textured CS and fold it in half using a bone folder to create your card base.  Set aside for a moment.
2. Mat a 4 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ piece of Tempting Turquoise DP from the Pink Flamingo collection onto a 4 3/4″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Pumpkin Pie CS. Set aside for a moment.
3. To create your sun you are going to need a chipboard circle and some chipboard leaves (these are from the On Board Batch of Blooms collection).  Place some Dotto adhesive onto a scrap piece of paper and stick your chipboard leaves to the Dotto, to keep them in place.  Completely cover the leaves in Summer Sun Craft ink and dry with a heat tool.  Stick your chipboard circle onto the less textured side of a scrap piece of So Saffron textured CS using Tombow Multi-Purpose adhesive.  Trim around the chipboard circle.
4. Sponge the edges of the So Saffron chipboard circle with Summer Sun Classic ink.  Take a pencil and randomly mark small dots onto the circle, and then punch them out with a Crop-a-Dile.  Insert a So Saffron Brad into each of the holes you punched.
5. Stick the leaves to the back of the So Saffron chipboard circle with Tombow – you want about half the leaf to be hidden behind the circle.  You may need to adjust the placement of the prongs of the brads to accomodate the leaves.
6. Stick the sun you just created to your card front with Tombow.  Take the orange rick rack from the Ribbon Originals Pig Tails Collection, cut off three pieces of different lenghts (I think they were 1 1/2″, 2″ and 2 1/2″).  Staple one end of the rick rack along the left edge of the matted DP as shown.  Take the fish stamps from the Just Beachy set, and stamp in Basic Black ink in between the rick rack.  Stick down the free end of each piece of rick rack with a mini glue dot.
7. Stamp another set of the fish onto a scrap of Whisper White CS in Basic Black ink and color them in using the following Stampin’ Write marker colors: Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun and Pumpkin Pie.  Cut them out as close to the image as you can and then stick them on top of the image you stamped onto the DP with a 2-way glue pen.
8. Cut out the greeting “Summer” out of Basic Black CS using the Big Shot and the Stampin’ Up! Billboard Sizzlit Decorative Strip die.  Stick the letters onto the card with a 2-way glue pen.  Punch two holes using the Crop-a-dile, just to the left of the word “Summer” and insert 2 silver brads.  As a final touch I grabbed a dotted border from the retired Anchored rub-on collection and added it as shown in the picture. 
9. Center and attach to your card. That’s it!

I hope you have as much fun looking at this card as I had making it!

Click Here to Order your Stampin’ Up! Products Online 24/7! (Canada Only)

 Stamps: Just Beachy (113796)
Ink: Basic Black Classic Ink (101179), Summer Sun Classic Ink (100537), Summer Sun Craft ink (101690), Tempting Turquoise Marker (100058), Summer Sun Marker (100077), Pumpkin Pie Marker (105115)
Paper: Tempting Turquoise Textured CS (108698), Whisper White CS (100730), Pumpkin Pie CS (105117), So Saffron Textured CS (108696), Basic Black CS (102851), Pink Flamingo DP (113976)
Accessories: Big Shot (113439), Stampin’ Up! Billboard Sizzlit Decorative Strip die (114510), On Board Batch of Blooms (112087), Rich Regals brads (106953), Silver brads (104336), Heat Tool (100005), paper snips (103579), Crop-a-Dile (108362), Ribbon Originals Pig Tails (114316), Anchored Rub On’s (retired), Bone Folder (102300), Snail Adhesive (104332), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Dotto Adhesive (103305), Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive (110755), Stampin’ Sponges (101610), Mini Glue Dots (103683), 2 Way Glue Pen (100425), Stapler (non-SU)