I took a few small liberties with this week's SCS CAS sketch, which makes quick work for paper scraps.
- I chose Stampin' Up!s Fan Fair and combined it with a greeting from Oh, Hello, stamped with Island Indigo. I do think the bolder sentiment works well with this sketch.
- The sketch required the sentiment to be on the middle strip and I wasn't comfortable placing that in the middle of the card.
- So, I graduated the sizes of the strips from largest at the bottom and smallest at the top and shifted them all up a bit. The card is Crumb Cake. I really like how well the Fan Fair papers work with this color.
- I rounded the corners, added the butterflies punched with the Elegant Butterfly Punch and the Bitty Butterfly Punch. I was ready to call it done when I got the bright idea to add a paper pierced butterfly in one of the corners.
- There's a lesson here. Don't try out something you haven't used before on a piece of work you are already happy with. The pierced butterfly pattern is great when it is around a stamped or punched butterfly but it really doesn't have the detail to stand on it's own, at least not with the level of detail present in the other elements of this card. Luckily it got better when I punched out another butterfly and set it inside the pierced holes.
I'm also posting this on SCS's March Creative Crew DSP/color challenge which is to use the Fan Fair Designer Series Paper and/or Island Indigo. You can play this challenge too: Create a project with Island Indigo and Fan Fair dsp or some of the colors in that DSP. You must use Island Indigo, though. If you have a Splitcoast Gallery post it with the keywords CCREW0313DF, Creative Crew, SUO or SUM. SUO stands for Stampin' Up! only; SUM stands for Stampin' Up Mostly. BTW, DSP stands for Designer Series Paper.
