Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Tropical Chic Anniversary Card

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Anniversary Card. The Tufted Embossing Folder provides an elegant matte for the leaves and flowers from the Tropical Chic Bundle on this anniversary card.
I was able to crack open the Tropical Escape DSP for an anniversary card for my husband.

After embossing a Thick Whisper White matte with the Tufted Embossing Folder I adhered it to a thin Shaded Spruce matte.

Another matte was cut from the Tropical Escape DSP and it was adhered to a 4.75 x 6" Granny Apple Green card base. The tufted matte was adhered to the card front using Dimensionals.

The palm leaves were die cut from Granny Apple Green and Shaded Spruce. The flowers were stamped with Calypso Coral and die cut.

I stamped the sentiment, from the Abstract Impressions Stamp Set, with Versamark on Shaded Spruce and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder. It was die cut using the #3 circle from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. (See Numbered Die Sets.) The leaves and flowers were clustered around the sentiment and all were adhered using Dimensionals.

A Whisper White matte was stamped with Shaded Spruce, stamped off, and then adhered to the inside of the card.

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Anniversary Card. The Tufted Embossing Folder provides an elegant matte for the leaves and flowers from the Tropical Chic Bundle on this anniversary card.

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Anniversary Card. The Tufted Embossing Folder provides an elegant matte for the leaves and flowers from the Tropical Chic Bundle on this anniversary card.

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Anniversary Card. The Tufted Embossing Folder provides an elegant matte for the leaves and flowers from the Tropical Chic Bundle on this anniversary card.


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Monday, July 23, 2018

Best Wishes with Subtle Texture

Linda Vich Creates: Best Wishes with Subtle Texture. Bold and bright and full of best wishes, this card uses the Subtle Embossing Folder as well as Love What You Do and Colorful Seasons.
Yesterday I shared a wreath card with you, built using wreath builder templates. The card I have for you today was intended to be another wreath but my stamping got a little out of hand and turned into DSP!

Like yesterday, I started with a 4 x 4" piece of Thick Whisper White and my Gina K. Designs Wreath Builder Templates. Because I already had these, I didn't feel the need to recreate my own. If you need your own templates, check out my Tropical Chic Wreath Card for links to tutorials for creating your own templates.

I taped the 4 x 4" template into my Stamparatus using Washi Tape and then set in my Whisper White. I used the flower from Colorful Seasons to stamp with Gorgeous Grape to form the initial wreath shape, placing my stamp at a corner, about 1/2" from each side. I then used stamps from the Love What You Do stamp set to fill in the rest of the design using both Bermuda Bay and Shaded Spruce.

The sentiment, from the stamp set that comes in the Darling Label Punch Box, was stamped on Shaded Spruce and heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder. It was then die cut using the #5 circle from Layering Circles Framelits and a matte was cut using the #5 scalloped circle. (Be sure to check out my Numbered Die Sets.)

The stamped piece was mounted on a thin Shaded Spruce matte. I decided then to add in some actual die cut pieces so used both Sweet Cake Framelits and Petals & More Thinlits with Bermuda Bay and Silver Glimmer. These pieces were arranged on top and then glued before adding the sentiment with Dimensionals.

A 4.75 x 6" card base was cut from Shaded Spruce and a matte from Gorgeous Grape. The matte was embossed using the new Subtles Embossing Folder. This is a wonderful folder for adding just a hint of texture but its use can take a card from "ok" to "WOW!" You'll definitely want to add it to your collection!

Before adhering the matte to the card front, and for a little more glitz, a length of silver ribbon, from the now retired Glitter Ribbon Combo Pack, was tied in a bow around the matte.The matte was then adhered to the card front with Dimensionals and the stamped piece on top.

A Whisper White matte was stamped with a few branches and flowers and then sponged with a little Highland Heather before adhering inside the card.

Linda Vich Creates: Best Wishes with Subtle Texture. Bold and bright and full of best wishes, this card uses the Subtle Embossing Folder as well as Love What You Do and Colorful Seasons.

Linda Vich Creates: Best Wishes with Subtle Texture. Bold and bright and full of best wishes, this card uses the Subtle Embossing Folder as well as Love What You Do and Colorful Seasons.

Linda Vich Creates: Best Wishes with Subtle Texture. Bold and bright and full of best wishes, this card uses the Subtle Embossing Folder as well as Love What You Do and Colorful Seasons.


Do you like the color combo for this card? Feel free to save and use it for your own projects!

Linda Vich Creates: Best Wishes with Subtle Texture. Bold and bright and full of best wishes, this card uses the Subtle Embossing Folder as well as Love What You Do and Colorful Seasons.


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Saturday, July 21, 2018

Tropical Chic Wreath Card

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Wreath Card. Tropical Chic is used to create a palm leaf wreath on this lovely card.
Today I enjoyed a wonderful day off playing in my craft room!

Inspired by a post by Jennifer McGuire in my email this morning, I decided to do some wreath making. In making my wreath, I used the Gina K. Designs Wreath Builder Templates. Since I already had these, I decided to not reinvent the wheel by creating my own but there are several tutorials for doing just that. There is one by Narelle, Pixie's Crafty Workshop, and Jane Allmark. All the templates are designed to work with a stamp positioner such as the MISTI or the Stamparatus.

I began by cutting a 4" square of Thick Whisper White and positioned it within my template inside my Stamparatus. I chose the little palm leaf from the Tropical Chic stamp set. A positioned the stamp in the corner of my paper and stamped it in Granny Apple Green. I rotated two places, and stamped again. I repeated this until I had four stamped palms.

After cleaning my stamp, I positioned my paper so that the stamp would now stamp between the existing palm leaves and this time used Garden Green ink.

I liked this wreath as sis but decided that some flowers would b a nice addition. Unfortunately, the flower in Tropical Chic was much too big so I settled on the tiny flower grouping from the Love What You Do stamp set. I positioned them to fall between the palm leaves and stamped them using Calypso Coral. I die cut a circle in the middle of the wreath using one of the Layering Circle Dies but then decided to place a die cut instead of stamping in the centre of the wreath.

I stamped the sentiment from the Darling Label Punch Box using Granny Apple Green  on Thick Whisper White and die cut it using the #2 circle die from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. To matte this circle, I used the #5 scalloped circle from the Layering Circles Dies to die cut from Garden Green.

The 4 x 4" wreath was matted with Garden Green. The matted sentiment was adhered to its centre using Dimensionals.

I cut a matte from the Tropical Chic DSP and adhered it to a Garden Green card front. I used a sponge to color the backs of two of the Pearlized Doilies using Calypso Coral. After snipping each in half, I adhered them with a bit of Fast Fuse to the front of the matte and then adhered the wreath on top using Dimensionals.

On a Whisper White matte for the inside, I stamped some palm leaves and then sponged the edges with Calypso Coral before adhering the matte to complete the card.

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Wreath Card. Tropical Chic is used to create a palm leaf wreath on this lovely card.

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Wreath Card. Tropical Chic is used to create a palm leaf wreath on this lovely card.

Linda Vich Creates: Tropical Chic Wreath Card. Tropical Chic is used to create a palm leaf wreath on this lovely card.


Though the palm leaves are stamped, not die cut, I think they look almost 3D! Anyway, I like how this turned out. I hope you will give wreath building a play!




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