Aloha, all!
One of the sweetest collection of products in the 2016-2017 Stampin' Up! Catalog is Affectionally Yours. My favorite products in this suite are the Love and Affection Stamp Set and the Affectionately Yours Specialty Designer Series Paper. The paper set is a "specialty" set because it has copper accents, to go along with other copper products in the suite. But today, I'm focusing on the floral part of the suite.
While I was drooling all over the products on pages 44 and 45 of the catalog, a card with this kind of design caught my eye. The card in the catalog was a square card, and the central stamped layer filled most of the card. But I wanted a card that was a standard size that showed off the paper in the DSP set. So I scrunched my design a bit to make it smaller all around.
If you guessed that I used my MISTI stamp aligner with this, you'd be right. The MISTI isn't a Stampin' Up! product, but it sure does make doing this kind a stamping a breeze! If you want to learn more about it, you can find dozens of videos on YouTube. The basic concept with this design is that you position a stamp in a spot on a square, stamp the image using the MISTI, and then turn your paper 90 degrees, restamp, and repeat twice.
I love the colors in the Designer Series Paper, so stuck with them for this project: Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush, Daffodil Delight, and Night of Navy. Once I finished stamping this square, I cut it out using the 3" square from the Layering Squares Framelits set.
For the background, I used both sides of the same sheet of the Designer Series Paper, cutting each 5-1/2" wide (the width of the card front) and 2-1/8" high (both together fit the height of the card front). I would like to have used the Affectionately Your Designer Washi Tape to "hold the pieces together," but at the time I made this card, I didn't yet own any (I do now, and it was this card that pushed me into that purchase!). So I used a 5/8" strip of another color of the Designer Series Paper and cut notches in both ends.
I adhered the stamped layer onto the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals.
This layout really is a simple one to make, and I'm already thinking that this might just be one of my swap projects for my summer swapping group! (Do you think they're reading this?)
Here are the products I featured in this project, and I hope you'll go to my personal Stampin' Up! website to learn more about them – and buy some to make your own projects!
