Hello there! Are you having a nice weekend?! I sure hope so! I sat down to make a card today and must admit I was feeling a little silly! I had no idea what I was going to make, but decided I wanted it to be a think outside of the box kind of creation! I looked around at everything I had sitting on my craft desk (I am a chronic don't put it away-er until the piles are falling over kind of crafter!!) and grabbed a Christmas set! Now Christmas card Sunday isn't until tomorrow, but I decided I wanted to challenge myself to use this set to make a non Christmas card card! So, I set to work playing with different ideas! After a few additions to the circular file (read trash can!) this is what I came up with:
This is my cute pineapple pine cone card!! It was actually inspired by the adorable Tufted Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder (I dare you to say that 3 time real fast!) I was just sitting staring at it and thought it resembled pineapple skin! Then I remembered the cute pine cone Christmas stamp set and wondered if I could talk those pine cones into being pineapples and sure enough...!! Pineapples are all the rage right now! They are on everything!! I love it!!
I started by embossing my base layer; which happens to be Pineapple Punch (see today's card just screams pineapples!!). I created my pineapples by stamping just the tips of the pine stem. I used a postage note to mask off the bottom half of my paper keeping it ink free. After I stamped the leaves I removed the post it which left only the tops of the leaves stamped. Then I stamped the pineapple/pine cone base in Daffodil Delight and then stamped the bumps on top using Soft Suede. This technique is called 2 step stamping. I added a few leaves from the Leaf punch in Old Olive and added a few gold accent dots.
Here is the stamp set I used to create my card. See the fun pine cones...look again...see them as pineapples now!! Wooohooo!
Here is a complete list of everything I used today:
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If you have any questions, or just want to chat zip me an email and we can dish! I will be back soonest with lots more to share! Have a wonderful day!
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