Hello, Happy
Wednesday everyone!
This week at
As You See It we have another great sketch challenge
to work with.
For this week’s
challenge we need to create a card with five images in a row on the card front,
I have rotated this weeks sketch to better suit the elements I have chosen for my
cards design.
I had a
pretty good idea of what I wanted to create for this challenge however I had one
tiny problem,
I didn’t have any eyewear (glasses) sentiments, but instead of binning
my idea I decided to improvise.
So since I don’t
own any quirky eyewear sentiments I decided to make my own using Gimp,
Like the
last time I made my own sentiment with Gimp I decided to use a bit of word play.
To make my
sentiment a bit more quirky I have broken the word spectacular up, using some
funky
brackets that look like little glasses to separate “Spec” so it reads { Spec }
Tacular.
Because my
card is going to be natural with just a spot colour I wanted to incorporate
this into my sentiment
so I colour blocked the word “Spec” with Melon Mambo,
this just helped tie in my spot colour and made the sentiment a bit more
interesting.
With my
sentiment all ready to go and lined up for my card base I then used my home
printer and printed the sentiment out onto a sheet of Trophee Board White Linen
240 GSM cardstock, I then used
my We R Memory Keepers Trim & Score Board to trim and score my card base, making
an A2 top folding card.
Now onto the
fun part… I got these adorable spectacle dies (Stunning Spectacles) from Poppy
Stamps a little while back and have been dying to use them on a card and this week’s
sketch was just perfect for them.
Like I said
above I wanted my card to have a spot colour whilst keeping everything else nice and natural
so I wanted four of the glasses on my card to be Basic Black with my fifth (middle) pair of glasses in Melon Mambo.
I also
wanted my glasses to be raised not just flat on my card front and since there isn’t
a lot of room around the frames to add any foam dots I decided to do a little
trick I like to call stacking, this Is where you die cut the same image several
times and glue them all together to get that added dimension; for each pair of
my glasses I die cut each one four times and glued them together to get one
pair.
To add a bit
of detail to the glasses I added some Clear Wink Of Stella to the Melon Mambo
frames, I then gave all the of the glasses a generous coating of Rangers Glossy
Accents to jazz up the glasses a little more and make them look a little more
real.
As a finishing touch I added a tiny bow to the Melon Mambo frames, made with the Paper Smooches Baby Bow die, die cut from some DCWV Black Twinkle Glints cardstock finished with a Basic Rhinestone Jewel to the center of the bow.
As a final detail I added a few Pretty Pink Posh 6mm Orchid Sequins around the frames, this is a super cute
card made with very few supplies, a little bit fiddly if you want to stack the
frames but I think it was definitely worth it.
Hope you enjoyed my spectacle card with the spot colouring,
Thanks for
stopping by and happy crafting,
- SUPPLY
LIST -
STAMPIN' UP!
Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Basic Black
A4 Cardstock
Melon Mambo
A4 Cardstock
Tombow Mono -
Multipurpose Liquid Glue
….
Simon Says Stamp
Paper Smooches - Baby Bow Die
Pretty Pink Posh - 6mm Orchid Sequins
Poppy Stamps
- Stunning Spectacles Dies
We R Memory
Keepers - Trim & Score Board
ZIG - Wink
of Stella Clear Glitter Brush Tip Marker
Ranger -
Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive
DCWV - Twinkle Glints - Glitzy Glitter 6X6 Paper Stack
….
OTHER
Trophee
Board - White Linen 240 GSM Paper
