We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for another installment of "One Design.....Multiple Cards."
That made me feel all announcer-ish. ;)
I have not just ONE card to show you today, but TWO cards! And the great thing about them?? They both use the same layout design, but I've used totally different products and images on them. In fact, one of them doesn't use any stamps at all!
The first card that I created uses two of GinaK's new Fall/Holiday images, along with the large oval from her Scalloped Frames and Doodles set.
I had a lot of fun with this little penguin and was so pleased with how he turned out. This is my favorite watercoloring job on Whisper White cardstock EVER! I have never gotten flawless watercoloring on Whisper White before so this was a Monday of Victory! What a way to start the week!
My husband has been SO sick all weekend and stayed home from work today. I was sitting at my desk working on this card and asked him, "Honey, do penguins have orange feet?" He was reading something at the time and apparently I distracted him from something he was really into (he really couldn't do much more than read all weekend). He said, "I don't know." I said, "Fine, then he's getting orange feet." He thought I was being snarky with him or something because he said, "It's not that I don't want to answer you. It's just that I don't know and I'm REALLY interested in what I'm reading." I told him, "It's no big deal. I'm just used to talking to myself all day so it was kind of exciting to ask a question out loud and actually have someone other than myself actually answer the question." And yes, I do talk to myself quite a bit. The good thing about talking to myself is that I win EVERY STINKIN' argument! SCORE!
I used some of the papers and cardstock from the Winter Bright Simply Scrappin' Kit that I used in Saturday's post.
I used the lids of my ink pads for watercoloring the penguin. I went over with a light wash of color first and then went back on the edges with more ink to give the penguin shading. If you look closely, you can see that I used a really light dillution (yes, that's my own word....it's a cross between diluted and solution) of Going Grey ink on the belly and face of the penguin to give those areas a little more dimension. I also used this "dillution" to create a shadow underneath the penguin so that he didn't look like he was floating in a Scalloped doodle bubble. I mounted the penguin on the card with Pop-dots.
The greeting was done by coloring my greeting stamp with a Real Red Stampin' Write marker one word at a time and stamping them on Whisper White cardstock, then cutting them in a "retro fashion."
Yes, I had to subject poor little Petey the Penguin to glitter. (And a pink scarf, for that matter. He's a very secure penguin when it comes to his masculinity.) I took my 2-Way glue pen over the cuff and the pom-pom of his hat and sprinkled them with the ever illustrious Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Come on, you KNOW that hat is SO much cuter with glitter on it. Even on a boy penguin!
I had so much fun with this easy layout that I decided to try another card with the same layout design. This time with no stamping at all!
These cards were cut at 7 3/4 x 3 7/8 inches. Yes, I know that sounds like a really weird measurement, but it just happened that way because I didn't want to cut into a full sheet of cardstock and the 7 3/4 inch length is what I had left on a piece of cardstock, so I went with it and the size ended up being something I really like. It's such a cute size.
For this card here, I used supplies from my FAVORITE EVER Simply Scrappin' Kit - the Secret Garden Kit. I chose the Groovy Guava and River Rock textured cardstocks from the kit, as well as one of the patterned papers.
The rest of the embellishments on this card were taken from the sticker sheets that come in the kit.
I really had my mind set on doing something that looked like a flower on a stem, but since I've used so many of the stickers already, I had to get a little creative. It's amazing what you can do with those lines of stickers in between the "real" border stickers. Those "left over strips" became the stem of the flower, as well as the borders above the "love" sticker. The love sticker looked so lonely without that special "something else." "Left over strips" to the rescue! The colors matched and it was just enough, but not too much. And who says "S" scrolls can't double as leaves? I had used up all the leaves on my sticker sheets and the flower just didn't look right without them (it actually looked like a flower shaped lollipop with a halo without the leaves and that just wasn't the look I was going for).
There was no stamping involved in this card and once again, another great use of the Simply Scrappin' Kits. This card took me less than 5 minutes to put together!
If you haven't yet used Stampin' Up's textured cardstock, you're missing out BIG TIME! This stuff ROCKS! It has such a rich look to it.....you can see the detail in this picture here. Both the River Rock and the Groovy Guava cardstock are textured.
Actually, ALL the cardstock in the Simply Scrappin' Kits are textured. I LOVE THIS STUFF! You can get it a bunch of different colors and it's colored all the way through. Gorgeous cardstock!
Hope you all have a lovely evening! See you tomorrow!
Happy Creating!
-Stampin' Mama
For those of you that are still waiting on the Winter Bright Extravaganza Kits and Tutorial CDs, the last batch went out in today's mail. I put a round in the mail at the beginning of last week, another round on Saturday, yesterday and today, as well. 
