Recreate this simple colourful card quickly and easily!
I am all about the quick and easy crafting – I love when something looks more difficult than it actually is – so this simple colourful card fits the bill!
Use your patterned paper as the main focus and you can create so many cards – add a bit of stamping for customization, and it’s ready to pop into the mail! For this card, the main focus is the Full of Life Designer Series Paper. This is a 6″ x 6″ set of papers, and you get four of each double sided design (there’s 12 different designs, so 48 sheets all together). Depending on how you cut your paper, you can have a majority of one colour tone over another. In this case, I chose the yellow/orange tones and used the blue/greens as a bit of an accent colour.
So you could call this a simple colourful watercolour card – since the original designs for the paper were hand painted by one of SU’s artists! (So yes, watercoloured, though not by me…!) For the sentiment, I used the Friends for Life bundle which includes a stamp set and dies. (It’s an extra 10% off the already discounted price if you purchase it before the end of June!). I added the die cut brush stroke strip, and managed to fit the greeting onto it. If you look at the Friends for Life stamp set, you’ll notice that the Happy Birthday Greeting is actually stacked, so the word “birthday” is below the word “happy”.
I used the Blueberry Bushel Stampin’ Write Marker (from the Regals Collection) to colour directly onto the stamp, one word at a time. I inked up “happy” and stamped it onto the strip, then I cleaned my stamp (to fully remove any remaining ink), inked the word “birthday” and stamped it onto the strip, so I could have the words horizontally aligned. I think that was the most difficult part of this simple colourful card, and it’s not THAT difficult!
I added a few Basic Gray and Smoky Slate Pearls as a finishing touch. I actually purchased the Full of Life Suite which includes the paper, bundle and Iridescent Striped Trim and Iridescent Faceted Gems, but I felt that the main tones of colour given off by the Iridescent Gems didn’t match my colour scheme as well as the more neutral gray toned pearls did. Backed everything with a bit of Peach Pie Cardstock and put it onto a Basic White Card and my simple colourful card was ready!
You can grab these products in the YamStamps Stampin’ Up! Canada Online Store by clicking on the links, or going to YamStamps.com/shop. Stamp and die bundles are an additional 10% off during June! If you’d like assistance placing your order, or would like to pay by etransfer, you can contact me. Create your own simple colourful card that doesn’t look so simple! Like I say – paper crafting doesn’t have to be difficult to be impressive!
