Wednesday, July 22, 2020

blue poinsettia...

Hello!  Rosemary here and I have another slimline card to share.  The new slimline die collection from A Jillian Vance Design is amazing and I can't stop making cards with it!   I have so many ideas in my head that I think I can make slimline cards for the next month or two, lol!  Today's card features the Slimline Stitched Plaid cover plate die, as well as the largest die from the Slimline Essentials Backdrop set.  I also use two different Christmas stamp sets and a die from the Holly & Swirls die set.  You can still pre-order the Slimline dies... just click here.


So, back in the day when I first started scrapbooking and making cards occasionally you could not get patterned paper in a 6x6 size only 12x12.  Even though I had gotten rid of alot of my 12x12 papers I still have quite a collection.  So when AJVD came out with the slimline dies collection I got really excited because now I would have the opportunity to use up some of that 12x12 paper!  And that is what I did with today's card.  I had gotten a collection of beautiful American Crafts patterned papers and coordinating cardstock from a no longer in business scrapbook kit club.   I decided to pull out what I had left of the collection to use to make my card.   I used a pretty silver metallic cardstock to die cut the Slimline Stitched Plaid piece and the large Essentials Slimline die to cut the patterned paper.  I then layered the two and adhered them to my card front.  I stamped the poinsettia from the Elegant Christmas Greetings stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with blue and gray Copic markers using a technique shared by the amazing Yana Smakula called blending free coloring.  I still have some more practicing to do, but I think my first attempt turned out well.  A Jillian Vance Design had a stamp and die set that contained the same poinsettia image from Elegant Christmas Greetings and so I used the matching die to cut out the image.  I popped the image up on my card front with foam tape and then added the holly swirls that I die cut from the silver metallic cardstock, as well as the patterned paper that I used.  The sentiment is from the Just BeCLAUS stamp set.  I stamped it in watermark ink and then heat embossed it using WOW! embossing powder in Primary Ebony.  The sentiment was then die cut with one of the small strip dies that comes in the Essentials Slimline die set.   I adhered that with some glue and rolled up glue dots.

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Rosemary

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5 comments:

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Beautiful slimline card, Rosemary!! Love the blue poinsettias with all the grey elements and perfect on the slimline stitched plaid with the swirls! I have my slimline stuff on preorder - can't wait for it to arrive!!

Greta said...

Oh wow--fabulous card, Rosemary! Really love the lattice die & such a great idea to use 12x12 papers! Gorgeous color combo & your no blend coloring is wonderful!

Lisa Elton said...

The pop of pretty blue from your poinsettias is fabulous Rosemary! This is a marvelous card!

Celeste Goff said...

Beautiful slim line card and those blue poinsettia's are simply stunning!

TK said...

Stunning! And I LOVE that AJVD is offering a lot of slimline options!