Life of a Caffeinated Mom: Growing in Unity Day 2 Clean and simple...Say what?

Welcome Back to Day 2 of {Growing in Unity} Friends:

Today I am sharing a card that was super fun to make and very frustrating at the same time. I am not really what you call artistic. I always say I am a technician, I put things together. I can not seem to color or blend well even after watching numerous Copic coloring You Tube videos and going to classes. Like I eluded to yesterday day..."I am a mess". My area at scrapbooking retreats generally spans two tables and the floor a space 5 feet around me. You have heard of the saying "it takes a village", well for me it takes my whole scrapbook office to create a few cards. I love the idea of Clean and Simple(CAS) but it only works in my head not in the final product. I have be a fan girl of the Unity Designer Team member Tenia Nelson for years. I love how she just makes her cards on a white base pop. If you don't know her work go to the Unity blog site and click on the design team and go to her blog and "check it" as she would say. So is my attempt at working with white to make a CAS card. It actually turned out close to my vision in my head, but it was bit UGLY getting there. 😉

Here is how I created these cards.

1. Stamp out leaves, sprinkle with WOW gold glitter embossing powder. This came in a Whit Card Kit for 2021. Initially I was attempting to use the Juicy embossing ink on red, yellow and brown paper. I was not getting the impact I wanted. I switched to brown ink on Kraft paper and like it much better. I than used my heat gun to set the embossing powder.

2. The Fall y'all bundle comes with dies! Click the link below to purchase because the bundle is on sale. The therapeutic value from make the leaves is worth the price alone even if you do not put them on a card. I cut the leaves out by running the stamp with the matching die through my Big Shot. In addition to the stamped leaves, I cut out 3 more of each leaf on white card stock and glued all three pieces together and then adhered to my cut out stamped leaves to give them support and dimension.

3. I took a precut 4.25 x5.5 inch white cardstock and trimmed .25 inches on one of the long sides and one of short sides.

4. Using my Misti I stamped the sentiment on bottom for 4 x 5.25 sheet of cardstock. Embossed it and set with heat gun.

5. I then placed double sided foam tape, cutting to customized size, and stuck on back of leaves. Using my T-ruler I allowed about a 1/4+ inches to have a straight line to place on leaves and spaced out by basically eye balling it and loosely placing maple leaf at 2.75 inches. Removed the back of the double sided tape and adhered them to the card.

5. I wrapped thin twine around my card twice and tied a bow. I could not decide on whether I like the epoxy white dot or not but I went with them.

6. The final step was taping to an A2 card base I had scored on my scoring board.

7. I was really obsessed with how well the maple leaf turned out so than I was side tracked by making them. If you look closely at the bottom picture you can see one I made. Next week am going to use them to make more cards.

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Supplies:

Fall y'all bundle -Unity Stamp Company

Juicy Embossing Ink- UnityStamp Company

Craft Cardstock- American Crafts

Wow Gold Glitter Embossing Power- Whit Kit October 2021 membership

Gatherer Twig Distress Ink- Tim Holtz

Glitter Glue

Misti

STAMPendable Stamping Tool

White smooth A2 Precut papers

Thin Twine-American Crafts