Social Stamping - #21 Brights

Brights with Floating & Fluttering 

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the first Social Stamping Blog Host for 2021.

For the next 5 months the Social Stamping Blog Hosts are focussing on each of Stampin' Up!'s colour families. This month the nominated set of colours are the Brights. While my go to colours are often a more subtle colour palette, the Brights are a range of gorgeous, vibrant colours, like a rainbow, that is: Poppy Parade, Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Pacific Point, Gorgeous Grape, Melon Mambo and Flirty Flamingo. Ten lively colours.

In pondering how I would showcase Stampin' Up!'s Brights, I was reminded of a sketch presented by the Global Design Project a few weeks ago and decided to commence with this layout for my card.

Given the striped panel across the centre of the card, I thought I would use all 10 Brights, so cut 5mm strips from each of the Bright's cardstocks. Each strip was adhered to some Basic White card-stock, leaving a small mount of Basic White at the top and bottom.

A piece of Basic White card-stock, that had been cut to card front size, was embossed with the leafy Meadows Moments Embossing Folder. Then it was adhered directly on a Thick Basic White card base. The Brights striped panel spanned across the centre of the card, being adhered in place with Dimensionals.

As I was walking my dog, the idea of using Vellum card-stock to add some further interest while allowing the bright stripes to shine. As I have seen many butterflies walking with Gemma, I decided on white embossed butterflies flying across the card. The set of butterflies from the Floating and Fluttering stamp set was stamped a couple of times with Versamark ink on Vellum and heat embossed using White Stampin' Emboss powder. Coordinating dies from the Fluttering dies were used to cut them out together with a tad of sniping to seperate each butterfly.

A stitched circle from the Stitched Shapes dies was cut from Vellum and it was adhered in a couple of spots to the striped panel where it would be covered by butterflies. A Gold Hoop embellishment was layered on top using rolled Glue Dots. The vellum butterflies were scattered across the card front. That sounds simple, doesn't it, but ... getting the right arrangement was not easy for me. I finally found an arrangement that I was happy with before heading off to bed last night, but the butterflies had been knocked and moved by the time I came to finish the card this morning. And yes, I wasn't able to achieve an arrangement that I was really happy with. 

The butterflies were either adhered directly to the card front or popped up on a Mini Dimensional. A sentiment from the Many Messages bundle was added with a Mini Dimensional either side of the Gold Hoop. Previously I had played with the Many Messages bundle and created a set of sentiments with Momento ink on Basic White card-stock and another set heat embossed with Versamark and White Emboss powder on Basic Black card-stock. It is very handy having a bowl of sentiments ready and waiting on my desk.

A few gorgeous Opal Rounds were added as a finishing touch. The card inner was created with thin strips of Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Pacific Point and Gorgeous Grape card-stock layered at the bottom with an embossed vellum butterfly. Some butterflies from the Floating and Fluttering stamp set were stamped in Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' ink on a C6 Basic White envelope so that the envelope would give a hint of what could be fount inside.

That's it from me this month. I hope you are enjoying this Social Stamping Blog Hop which has focussed on the Bright colours. If you started at the beginning with our amazing Social Stamping Host, Kelly Kent, then the next talented crafter is Elizabeth Gross at Lillybet's Papers. Either click on Elizabeth's name or click on the "next" graphic to be taken to her blog.

  

To see the full list of participants, click on this link and be taken to Kelly Kent's Host Blog Post at My Papercraft Journey where you will find all the individual links that can take you to each person's blog

I hope to see you again next month, when we will be focussing on the In Colours' families. 

Do look after yourself and your loved ones. Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others in these strange times. Hopefully improvement is around the corner.

Andrea 😘