Stamps & Stretchy Pants

Hello friends! This is a card share featuring a technique I have used quite a bit lately—the Floating Strip Technique! It is such a good way to use up those strips of paper we all seem to have in our scrap bins!

After I designed this card and shared it with my card making group I realized that the floating strip section looks rather like a baseball! It wasn’t what I was intending but it works with Your Biggest Fan Bundle as a bit of a happy accident!

The base of the card is Sahara Sand and I layered Basic White with a panel of DSP from the Hey Sports Fan collection. It almost looks like this DSP has been run through an embossing folder but it hasn’t, it really is that amazing.

For the Floating Strip component, I ran my strips of Sahara Sand cardstock through the Timber 3D folder to mimic the DSP. The window sheet and strips are die cut with the largest circle from the Layering Circle Dies. Once you have the shape die cut, add it to your card base using the Foam Adhesive strips on the backside of the circle. I like to use the strips because they do have a little more height than a regular Dimensional.

I used a few of the ticket dies from the Sports Event Dies to accentuate the sentiment which is die cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies (a craft room must have, hit #addtocart ). I also used the twine and Resin Stars embellishments to complete this card!

The inside of the card is stamped with some Crumb Cake stars from the Your Biggest Fan stamp set and a cute die cut ticket with “Happy Father’s Day” is added over top as a little extra happiness on the inside!

Sometimes its an unexpected surprise to have something on the inside!

I hope you enjoy this Father’s Day themed card and if you have not purchased this bundle, you definitely need to before it is gone for good at the end of June. It is a keeper for me as I find it is unique and has a lot of potential.

Hello friends! My oh my, its been a hot minute since I posted on my blog. Seriously I do not know where a whole month can go in a blink of an eye and I really do admire the diligence of people who update their blogs regularly! If you do like my creative style, please go follow me on Instagram @stampwithbrenda as you will find alot more content over there! And while you are at it, make sure to go follow the new Stampin’ Up! Instagram @stampinupofficial as they were recently hacked! The nerve! Why target crafty people? We are the nicest people ever!

Ok enough with that, you are here to see a fun project featuring our monthly color challenge! This month we are creating with Pacific Point, Crumb Cake and Balmy Blue. Colors that make me think of my boys so I decided to scrapbook an older picture of husband and kits from a Father’s Day a few years back. Looking at their cute little faces just kills me. They are teens now. I say no more.

This page is clean and simple which makes putting it together a snap!

I started with a 12x12 base of Pacific Point and I added a base layer of Basic White 12x12 that I trimmed half an inch off 2 sides. This would be similar to what you would do with a making a card. I will say it again, a scrapbook page is just a larger card canvas with a picture!

I also new that I wanted to use the Your Biggest Fan bundle to make this page. I love love love this bundle and am a little crushed it won’t be in the new Annual Catalogue. Its a keeper for me and will have some extra shelf life in my Home Studio!

I created this cute little area on the top left of my photo using the bundle and the new upcoming Stylish Shapes Dies (you will love them!).

An easy way to add texture to your scrapbook page is to use die cut shapes in the same color as your main background. Here I used one of the ticket dies to highlight the sentiment area. The large ticket in the die set was cut in half and I stamped in Balmy Blue ink “You’re Amazing” and added a little Classic Matte Dot beside it.

The sentiment “Most Valuable Dad” is stamped on Crumb Cake cardstock with the same ink. I also matted my 5x7 photo on this color. I added some of the blue twine from the Fan Bakers Twine behind and popped it up on the pennant shape.

I stamped the outline in Pacific Point ink on the same color cardstock and then used the dies to cut it out. The pennant die has little add ons such as the tassels which I added with a Mini Dimensional to make this more 3 dimensional.

I added a few of the blue Resin Stars as well to finish off this little area,

I wish I could go back in time and snuggle my kids a little longer. I miss this cute little faces! The teen expressions I see a lot are not nearly as enjoyable. If you know, you know.

My next little area of interest is on the bottom right. Our eye naturally travels this way so from a design point of view it makes sense to have something visual to look at here. I started by stamping the sentiment “You’re Amazing” again in Balmy Blue ink and then flicked my Balmy Blue Dark Stampin’ Blend maker over the area.

Once again I added a couple of tag dies in Basic White to add some texture.

I used the “Happy Father’s Day” sentiment as well in Crumb Cake ink and paper to mimic the “Most Valuable Dad” sentiment. I also added the #1 die cut in Pacific Point and layered on Balmy Blue card stock.

A few more Resin Stars and Classic Dots and this page was complete!

If you live in the Edmonton region and are interested in learning how to scrapbook, I offer several groups and classes per month! More than card classes to be truthful!

It did not take me long to put this page together, when you have the right elements I find things come together quite quickly! Scrapbooking doesn’t have to feel overwhelming or intense and I think this page reflects that style of clean and simple!

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the Color Fusers Team has designed this month to share with this color scheme! Please make sure to hop all the way around and comments are always appreciated!

You can shop all of these products by clicking on any of the project images to go directly to my store as well! Thank you for helping me keep loving what I do!

Let see what the amazing Melanie Hockin has created for us! You can click on the link to visit her next!

You can always chose to go backwards (really though…does anyone? Lol. It seems weird to me but at least if the link chain get broken you have this option!