ombre – Northwest Stamper

A Quick Thank You Card with a Beautiful Butterfly

I’ve been making a concerted effort to actually use up my scraps. You know, instead of having bags and boxes stuffed full of scraps…. because I’m a hoarder, I’ll admit it. I have a good system for managing my scraps but even that can only take so much and so when I have extra punch out or die cuts, I have a new “Use it or Lose it” policy. And thus, this card was born –

Yup! Totally a scrap card!

I started with the extra lattice that I had created when I was trying to figure out the technique for a recent class card. All it takes is the Chevron border punch and some weaving and you are done! (I have a full tutorial here if you want to try it at home.)

So, I stamped the Hardwood image on the back of my card and layered on the white cardstock lattice. Then I needed something to go over my lattice, and that is when my eye caught the butterfly scraps! The butterflies were left over for a different ombre butterfly card I created (see that card here) and I ended up having an extra of each of the colors, so I stacked them up only this time making sure to stagger them a bit so you could easily see each color.

Then I added my sentiment for the fabulous So Very Grateful (I’m shedding a tear that this stamp isn’t carrying over into the new catalog!) and it needed something else to ground it, so I added the scrap strip of Crumb Cake cardstock.

Psst- if you look closely, you can see that I put it on as an afterthought because I had to tuck it into each side of the lattice… see the empty space in the middle.

Quick Reminder: The butterfly I used here is from the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, which is retiring at the end of the month. I loved it because for my classes, I was cutting up to 6 pieces of cardstock at a time! Which makes cards like this much easier because you can do one run through the Big Shot to cut out all of your butterflies! Gotta love things that make your life easier. See the remaining retiring stamps and accessories online here.

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Stampin’ Up! Supplies Used
Stamps – So Very Grateful, Hardwood
Ink – Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Paper – Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Crisp Canteloupe, Calypso Coral
Accessories – Big Shot, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Chevron Border Punch, Pearls

May 15, 2014

Stacked Die cuts for a Cool Ombre Effect

I was working on cards for an upcoming card class for The Scrapyard Chicks April Workshop and one great technique Kerry mentioned was stacking die cuts to get a cool ombre or rainbow effect on your cards and projects. It looked so simple but just a neat effect that I just had to try it!

I decided to make life easy on myself and I started out with a bigshot die that can handle multiple pieces of cardstock at the same time (got to love those Bigz dies!!) So, I grabbed my Beautiful Butterflies die and got to work creating this card:

I kept the card really simple so that the butterfly and the subtle colors would stand out. It is just a plain white cardbase with a strip of white cardstock that has been embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder.

Then I picked a few colors to make the butterfly. I cut out 3 die cuts of each color– Calypso Coral (darkest), Crisp Cantaloupe (medium), and Blushing Bride (lightest) and then glued them together. And you know when you use the thick dies in the Big Shot you can cut all the sheets of the same color out at the same time, right? So, it only took a few runs through the machine to get my diecuts all done!

Then I cut out 1 die cut of Whisper White to place on the top of the stack.

Glue them together and add a string of rhinestones just a hint of glitz. I kept it to only 3 pieces of paper per color just to keep the die cut from not being too tall off my card, but you could add more sheets and more colors to make them stand out even more!

So, have some fun with your Big Shot, dies, and some cardstock and see what fun creations you can come up with.

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Stampin’ Up supplies uses. Click any photo for more details:

Big Shot Die-Cut Machine

$99.95

Beautiful Butterflies Stampin’ Up! Bigz Die

$21.95

Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder Die

$7.95

Blushing Bride 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock

$6.95

Crisp Cantaloupe 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock

$6.95

Calypso Coral 8-1/2 X 11 Card Stock

$6.95

Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents

$4.95

Sweet Essentials Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$14.95

March 12, 2014

Trying Out Ombre with a Fun Piercing Card

At a recent class, I focused on different ways to use Paper Piercing in your projects. Well, we made this card as a way to show how you can use a design from the Paper Piercing Templates without needing to have the matching Big Shot die or punch.

See, as much as I think of myself as a hoarder of Big Shot dies and embossing folders, I still have managed to get by without the Apocathary Accents framelit set (I’m sure this will be fixed in the future though Smile ) But I had the piercing template and thought this shape would be a nice accent for some punched out butterflies.

You can see it a bit better in this picture:

I also pierced my Whisper White paper and glued it down so that the “backside” of where I pierced was what was facing up on my card (the pierced parts poke up and out from the paper instead of pushing into the paper).

Plus this was a fun attempt to try out the Ombre trend. I played with a few color themes but settled on Blues as my colors of choice. I used the following blues in this card:

Baja Breeze
Pool Party
Island Indigo
Night of Navy

But grab your favorite colors and try it out with pinks, greens, or purples. Or you can step it up like some of the gals in my class did and start layering in on different blues using the Bitty Butterfly punch and layering them over these Elegant Butterfly punch outs. Let me just say they look super pretty!

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Supples Used
Paper – Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Night of Navy
Accessories – Paper Piercer, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Piercing Mat, Elegant Butterfly Punch

April 22, 2013

Tag: ombre

A Quick Thank You Card with a Beautiful Butterfly

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Stacked Die cuts for a Cool Ombre Effect

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Trying Out Ombre with a Fun Piercing Card

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