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While I usually enjoy using different colour combinations for my designs, I do love making monochromatic cards too. This week I’m showing off the retiring Dandy Garden 6×6 Designer Series Paper and the Ladybug Trinkets. I have to admit that this DSP was not my favourite. Some of the designs were nice, but I did love that I could use the Dragonfly punch to cut out the dragonflies instead of fussy cutting.

For this card I choose the sheet using Blackberry Bliss. Blackberry Bliss is one of my favourite colours. And I was so happy when Stampin’ Up! decided to bring it back. Other than the DSP and Blackberry Bliss, I used Basic White cardstock. It’s always good to keep it simple, and neutral, when you’re making this kind of a card.

I simply stamped the tall flower image from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set at different heights for the top of the card. Then the DSP went underneath. To overlap the two pieces I stamped a dragonfly and used one of the Layering Circles dies to cut it out. For the wings I stamped off first so that the colour was a little bit lighter than the wings.

The phrase also came from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set. For this card I just cut the cardstock, but you can also use the Stitched Rectangles dies. I popped up the phrase, and the dragonfly, with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then instead of my usual bling, I decided to add a lady bug.

Monochromatic cards can be so nice. Sometimes it’s nice to just keep things simple. This is one that I shared on my YouTube channel, which you can check out here.

Check out last week’s card featuring the True Love Designer Series Paper and Blushing Bride Metallic ribbon here. And you can find everything that’s retiring from the January-June Mini catalogue in my online shop here.

It’s the last Fancy Fold Design Team Blog Hop of 2020! I’ve been having a lot of fun creating different fancy folds since joining the hop earlier this year. This month we’re making a Surprise Window Card. It’s a really simple card to make and looks really neat. Here’s a video showing a few examples. I’ve created a basic project sheet with measurements and instructions if you want to make your own, so make sure to scroll to the end!

I bounced around a few different ideas for my card. Initially I thought of using the Sweet Ice Cream stamp set from the upcoming new catalogue. But instead I went with the Dragonfly Garden stamp set, which is also from the new catalogue. I really like this stamp set, but for whatever reason I haven’t crafted much with it since I got it for OnStage back in November. I’m hoping that will change over the next little bit.

I also wanted to use the Dandy Garden 6×6 Designer Series Paper for this project so that helped me figure out my colour combination. It started with a piece of Blackberry Bliss DSP and so I went with Mossy Meadow for my other colour. From there I added in a few dragonflies that I punched out from another piece of DSP using the Dragonflies punch. I also stamped a few small ones in the background using some Crumb Cake ink. Here’s that flap of my card…

For the other inner most flap I just stamped a phrase from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set using Blackberry Bliss ink. Here it is to give you a sense of the card fully opened…

So for the front of the card I used that piece of Blackberry Bliss DSP. Then to create my window I used one of the Stitched Nested Labels dies. I initially thought of embossing the front of the card as well and kind of wish I had (next time). I popped up my “for you” from the Beauty Abounds stamp set with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And then added a few of the Ladybug Trinkets. To adhere those to the card front I just cut a Mini Dimensional in half and squished it inside.

I really like how my Surprise Window card turned out. Those cute little ladybugs add a nice touch! I’m definitely going to have fun using those guys. To check out the next stop on this month’s blog hop check out Nadine Schweda’s project. And don’t forget to grab the project sheet below!

2020-Surprise-Window-Card-Project-Sheet Download

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Monochromatic Cards

Surprise Window Card