Aloha, all!
I do hope that you're not tired of my efforts to CASE some of the projects on the Stampin' Up! Catalog pages featuring the Seaside Shore Stamp Set. But once I got started on them, I really wanted to try them all out to see how the stamps and the papers worked together. And, for today's project, to see how the lovely new Seaside Textured Impressions Embossing Folder work with them, too!
As with the card that I published last Tuesday, today's project is on page 93 of the 2016-2017 Stampin' Up! Catalog. What a pretty set of pages 92-93 are! The artists who put these today really caught my attention for sure.
You may have noticed that a lot of the cards featured in the current Stampin' Up! catalog are not showing much of a mat behind the base layer on the card fronts. This is one of those. And, while I don't considered it necessary for me to follow suit when I'm CASEing a project, in this case, I thought the simplicity of this design warranted staying with a solid color layer.
This is one of the projects that my newest downline and I worked on creating last week, and we both decided that we just weren't interested in doing any heat embossing that day. So we gave up the idea of gold embossing the sentiment and several starfish that had been added to the Designer Series Paper sheet. I also do not yet own the stamp set from which the original sentiment comes (Better Together). So we looked around and found one that we liked from the Rose Wonder Stamp Set.
Once we decided on the sympathy sentiment, we found that we had to make our banner a bit deeper to fit the stamp. That was really not a big deal, especially when you're not trying to copy a card exactly. But we needed something else for the horizontal element behind the banner as I do not yet own any of the new Thin Striped Ribbon. I'll get them all eventually (I love ribbon!). But my ribbon stash right now seems to be large enough. Anyway, we decided to use one of the designs from the By the Seashore Designer Series Paper set, the same set from which the starfish paper comes. We picked the sheet with the Mint Macaron bubbles to complement the background color.
My friend and I discussed how tall and wide we wanted the Starfish DSP to be. With this layout, I really wanted the top, bottom and right side to have the same distance from the edge of the paper to the edge of the card. But we both wanted the left space to be no smaller than it seemed in the picture. We ended up cutting the DSP 5" high (with a 1/4" border top and bottom) and 3-1/4" wide (with a 1/4" border at the right and 3/4" border on the left).
Occasionally I share hints about using Stampin' Up! products here on my blog, and here's a hint for today's project. If you use Fast Fuse Adhesive (and I use it exclusively for my basic adhesive), definitely don't press too hard on the back of a texturized piece of cardstock. The texturizing weakens the cardstock a bit, and the Fast Fuse Adhesive can tear the paper apart if you've pressed too hard. You never need to press hard with Fast Fuse, and this is one time when you should keep that firmly in mind!
So that's it for CASEing the Seaside Shore samples! I do need to get onto more products! Speaking of which, these are the products I featured in today's project. I hope you'll click on any of the pictures to find out more about them, and order them directly from my own Stampin' Up! Store!
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An update after writing this post. I know I've said in the past that it's a good idea to make Sympathy cards when I really don't need them. When I need them because someone you I or who is close to someone I know, it's really hard to think about the deceased when I'm trying to come up with a design. This happened with the Sympathy card I made last week for a friends whose husband passed away. This week, someone I'd known online for quite some time died, and I was able quickly to send out this card to her family. The bad news is that I have to make another Sympathy card pretty quickly!
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