Hi everyone, the new Expressions in Ink suite is amazing! It’s quite different from anything I’ve been aware of Stampin’ Up!® doing in the past. The Expressions In Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper, in particular, is really quite stunning – it has gorgeous gold foiling on one side of the papers. Divine!
I couldn’t wait to start creating with the suite and I wanted to make the gorgeous patterned paper the focus of my cards. This led me to design a really simple card and it is one you could easily replicate. In fact, I couldn’t stop with one – so I am sharing two cards today.
All you need to do is select the paper you want to use and pick a coordinating sheet of cardstock for the card base. For the first card I’ve used Polished Pink, and for the second I’ve chosen Just Jade. I trimmed the patterned paper to 12.4cm x 8cm and matted it on a mat of Basic White (12.8cm x 8.4cm). You could pop this panel up with Stampin’ Dimensionals if you wanted. I decided to add it directly to the card base.
The next step was to die cut the beautiful leaves from the Artistic die set. As it is quite a delicate die, I used Adhesive Sheets and applied it to the Basic White cardstock before I ran it through the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine. It makes it easier to adhere the die-cut to your card.
For the sentiment, I stamped Happy Birthday (from the Artistically Inked stamp set) in Versamark and then embossed in Gold. So pretty! I die cut this sentiment using one of the dies from the Stitched Rectangles die set. As the dies weren’t the perfect size I positioned the die over the sentiment and then made sure the part I didn’t want cut was kind of hanging off the edge of the cutting platform. This meant that when I ran it through the die-cutting machine only half of the sentiment was cut out. I then moved the die so it would cut the other end of the sentiment strip. Once again, I placed the die in the machine so the part I didn’t want cut was hanging off the edge of the cutting platform. This technique enables you to extend the use of your dies.
The final touch was to add a bow of gold trim from the Simply Elegant Trim pack. I adhered the bow with a Glue Dot.
Here’s the first card…
Here’s the second card…
Aren’t they both so lovely? The colours are so rich and lovely. Which colourway do you like best?
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