Happy Wednesday everybody! Hop along with me and my talented team of designers from the Cardmaker Blog & American Crafts. As we each share lots of wonderful, vibrant, spring projects from the super talented Amy Tangerine's *NEW* Better Together Collection. WOW! What fun we had creating projects from this amazing collection of shapes, bright colors, fun patterns with a retro twist, and lots of really great embellishments. See below for Blog Hop list, tutorial, and a list of supplies I used...
For this Hop I created a modern baby card with a retro twist using some of these fun patterns, an acrylic star overlay, and a brass retro Polaroid like die cut. Can you be retro and modern on the same project? Sure you can! I just did. This *NEW* collection by Amy Tangerine is great for all kinds of projects, kids of all ages, especially teenagers, birthdays, baby, spring, summer cards, fan's of the 80's, and so much more. It’s very fun, hip, modern, retro, and vibrant.
Make sure you hop to each blog listed below, check out each project, and write a quick comment and tell us what you think (we love comments).
Next Hop to the talented: Carisa Zglobicki
The complete Blog Hop list is below in case anyone gets lost:
-CardMaker
-Lisa Silver
-Pamela Haskin
-Linda Beeson
-Dawn Lusk
-Kim Klinkovsky <--you are here
-Carisa Zglobicki
-American Crafts Website or Blog: www.americancrafts.typepad.com
Make sure you hop to each blog listed below, check out each project, and write a quick comment and tell us what you think (we love comments).
Next Hop to the talented: Carisa Zglobicki
The complete Blog Hop list is below in case anyone gets lost:
-CardMaker
-Lisa Silver
-Pamela Haskin
-Linda Beeson
-Dawn Lusk
-Kim Klinkovsky <--you are here
-Carisa Zglobicki
-American Crafts Website or Blog: www.americancrafts.typepad.com
How I made this card:
Instead of the typical baby card, I was drawn to this geometric pattern with hues of blue and green. I love how the layers, triangles, stars, hearts, and dots all play along cohesively on this card. I chose this solid distress green paper to break up the busy patterned paper and border punched the edges with stars. But, when I laid down the border, I felt the background was still too busy, so I attached a piece of dark blue polka dot paper behind it and adhered to card.
I chose a light blue polka dot pattern paper to soften the card up a bit. Stamped this cute giraffe in blue right onto the pattern paper and layered a piece of acrylic stars over the top. This card still needed something else. And this brass die cut frame was perfect, but again, the background was busy where the “so happy” was cut out and it was hard to read. So, I picked one of the coordinating sticker strips from this collection, but I needed the top side sticky so it would stick to the brass die cut and the color would show through. So I grabbed my sticker machine and now both sides of the sticker were sticky and I placed it behind the brass overlay and adhered to card.
I added a gem for the giraffe’s eye, a few randomly placed sticker hearts, and a precious bow with a couple buttons to finish it up. One of the things I love-love-love about collections…is that everything coordinates and you can use several layers, stickers, and embellishments and it all matches perfectly. Viola! Instant modern baby card. Happy Spring! ~Kim
Challenges:
-WIW Photo Inspiration Challenge ~ M1616: I was inspired by the green and blues, the central image, and the polka dots.
-Skip to my Lou-Made by you Mondays
Supplies used: Amy Tangerine: Better Together Collection- Paper, stickers, and embellishments; Ranger Tim Holtz chipped sapphire distress ink; Stampin Up giraffe stamp from "wild about you" set (retired-sorry); EK Success star border punch; AC bakers twine; Doodlebug buttons; adhesive gem; and Xyron 1.5" sticker maker
I chose a light blue polka dot pattern paper to soften the card up a bit. Stamped this cute giraffe in blue right onto the pattern paper and layered a piece of acrylic stars over the top. This card still needed something else. And this brass die cut frame was perfect, but again, the background was busy where the “so happy” was cut out and it was hard to read. So, I picked one of the coordinating sticker strips from this collection, but I needed the top side sticky so it would stick to the brass die cut and the color would show through. So I grabbed my sticker machine and now both sides of the sticker were sticky and I placed it behind the brass overlay and adhered to card.
I added a gem for the giraffe’s eye, a few randomly placed sticker hearts, and a precious bow with a couple buttons to finish it up. One of the things I love-love-love about collections…is that everything coordinates and you can use several layers, stickers, and embellishments and it all matches perfectly. Viola! Instant modern baby card. Happy Spring! ~Kim
Challenges:
-WIW Photo Inspiration Challenge ~ M1616: I was inspired by the green and blues, the central image, and the polka dots.
-Skip to my Lou-Made by you Mondays
Supplies used: Amy Tangerine: Better Together Collection- Paper, stickers, and embellishments; Ranger Tim Holtz chipped sapphire distress ink; Stampin Up giraffe stamp from "wild about you" set (retired-sorry); EK Success star border punch; AC bakers twine; Doodlebug buttons; adhesive gem; and Xyron 1.5" sticker maker
Amy Tangerine prize package
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