Friday, March 1, 2013

CFC #92: Wallpaper, and A Study in: Stripes



So excited for my first CAS-ual Fridays Challenge post as a Girl Friday! To celebrate, I made a few additional cards using the same stripe stamp, included later in this post. The challenge this week is to create a stamped background on your card. 


For this challenge I used the stamp with the three lines (right under WTF) to make a one-layer card.


The line stamp reminds me of the lines in a UPC bar code, so I thought I'd make one with a custom happy birthday sentiment. I showed it to my husband, and he said UPC codes have numbers in them, not letters. Bah humbug. Creative license, my darling!


I printed the sentiment from Word (added a space between each letter) and then made two rectangular masks to put over "happy 32nd" and "birthday."  The long masks for the lines on the top and bottom came in handy too. Then I opened all my ink pads and just started stamping down the color wheel.
  
I've been stamping for many years, but had never known about the Fiskar's stamp press until watching a Papertrey video recently. It almost feels like cheating! To be able to stamp with right angles and parallel lines every time ... heaven! 


While I had the mask all set up I printed off some more card bases for upcoming birthdays, and stamped more rainbow bar codes. I did one in blues for a man (rear right) and one in grays with a pink section pointing to the age (front right). This would also be a fun set to give someone too if you make different color combos and take the age off.


Here's another card using the same stripe stamp. The stamp press is great at helping you match up the ends of your lines when you need to stamp across the base. I just used two inks on this one, pink and blue. The lighter colors are from doing a second generation stamp. This helped to give a little more dimension, and also speed up the process since I didn't have to re-ink each time. "Sweet Friend" is from the new Beanstalks set.


Here's a quick one stamping the lines through a circle I punched out of copy paper. "Just Thinking about YOU" is from the new Only You set.


Finally, my favorite card. Here's the start of it. I cut out a 1 1/4" wide rectangle out of copy paper to make a mask for the lines stamp. Then started stamping rainbow colors across the card base. 


Here it is a little farther along, with the stamp press and mask to the right.


I stopped at this point and grabbed some circles from my scrap basket to see what it would look like as a card. Kinda cool already! Also, I figured if I messed up later I could just show you this card for the completed one : ) But let's finish it up ...


I was super happy with how the "wallpaper" turned out, but when I came to putting the sentiment on I was stuck. Everything I tried competed too much with the background. So finally it hit me that I needed to do a white on white sentiment. And then I was happy with it.

Thanks for sticking with me. I promise future CASual Fridays posts won't be as long, but I was incredibly excited about the whole thing and wanted to do something special.

I sure hope you'll join in the fun at CAS-ual Fridays, where there is a $25 gift certificate to Ellen Hutson for the winner! Also, stop by to check out the new design team and their fabulous creations : )


Thanks for looking!
-Kelly

50 comments:

  1. I feel like I am in a stripey heaven....I am loving your creations for this post! You are absolutely AMAZING, Kelly! So happy that you are a Girl Friday! YAY!

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  2. I'm in stripe heaven! So much gorgeousness!!! Love everything.

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  3. Love the stripes!! I used to have no stripe stamps and was dying for some. Then suddenly, stripe stamps everywhere!! I have the martha stewart stamp press and I think I'm going to get the fiskars one soon. Looking at your photo, it looks so much easier to line up!

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  4. There you go again, Kelly, inspiring me with your amazing work! I love all the stripes! I agree with you, the top cards look like bar codes to me too! I bought the Fiskars stamp press a couple of months ago, and I really don't know how I ever lived without it. :-)

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  5. Another great study! Love the awesome stripeyness! Is there such a word? I love how UPC barcode-ish it is, even with the letters! Sooo cool, Kelly!

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  6. Blown. Away. Seriously.

    The barcode cards are just sheer stripes perfection!! And the penultimate card, with that effect - I don't kit's if it's because I'm just waking up or because it's that mindblowing, but I can't work it out!! I am gonna have to study it hard, lol!!

    Amazing inaugural post. Michele did right not to let your application slip through her fingers!!

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  7. Seriously amazing cards Kelly, love the barcode and all its variations of colours, can't wait to see your CASual Fridays cards every Friday if these are your first projects :0)
    Jenny x

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  8. Well , special it is!!! Kelly these cards are beautiful and amazing . I had to laugh about your husband telling you barcodes are numbers not letters. Such a guy! Nothing short of wonderful for your first CASual Friday post.

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  9. these are all awesome! TGIF!

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  10. WOW! Love the barcode idea - so simple (except for all that masking) and so effective - I really enjoyed seeing all the different colour combinations. Leave it to you to get so much out of a single stamp!

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  11. WOW! These look incredible!!!!

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  12. I am so loving all the stripey cards, especially the bar code cards! Really fun and colourful idea!

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  13. Love your CAS cards with this stripe stamp to make so many wonderful backgrounds.

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  14. Wow Kelly!
    .you make it look so easy..I would never be able to line up all those stripe even with a stamp press!...Awesome job!

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  15. Kelly what a brilliant way to use the stripes, they look fabulous thanks so much for sharing this with us, its brilliant really...

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  16. Kelly :) I am soooooooooo impressed by your work, I love it. Beautiful cards

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  17. Oh. My. Gosh! These are all amazing and I just love the little tutorial you provided! Nothing makes me happier than seeing new and creative uses of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! I hope you don't mind if I share this on the store blog :)

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  18. Husband's are funny literal creatures aren't they LOL?! I absolutely thought "bar code" when I saw your card Kelly & they are all amazing - I am going to have to seriously check out the stamp press. The last card is my favorite too.

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  19. Oh my goodness, Kelly! These are all so amazing! I'm in awe of your stamping abilities. Fabulous. Absolultely fabulous!

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  20. I LOVE these! What a great idea! Looks fantastic. I really love how you take an idea and see it through, turning over all sorts of possibilities. Really eye opening!

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  21. For real? Holy stripes batman! You are incredible

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  22. WOWZERS!!!
    This is incredibly stunning and sooooo adorable!!!
    Sylvia xx

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  23. love the ways u have used the stripes. Amazing possibilities!

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  24. Congrats on your first Casual Friday's post Kelly! I'd say you're off and running...these are STELLAR!!

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  25. Kelly you did an awesome job!!! These are incredible!!! YOU ROCK!!!

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  26. Wow wow wow! Kelly your striped cards and informative post are amazing. That bar code card just ROCKS! Have a great weekend.

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  27. super cool! I love stripes!!

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  28. FAB-U-LOUS!! I'd say you're going to be a hit on CAS-ual Firdays.

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  29. Wow!! Those are some amazing cards!! I LOVE the barcode ones...love!! That is genius! Pinned!

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  30. Wow! Fab cards and great tutorial, Kelly! I will have to try it. Thanks for sharing:)

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  31. absolutely gorgeous cards, Kelly! and thanks for the tutorial/photos. i am in awe! love love them all!

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  32. I'm completely blown away by these, Kelly, what a supremely FANTASTIC first week on CFC's DT! These happy rainbow bar code cards are just splendid ... your final one in particular is even beyond that ... stunning! I too never knew about the Fiskars stamp press till I saw it on a video just recently ... added to my looong wishlist! Anita :)

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  33. wow these technique and results are amazing! love the stamp press.

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  34. This is really clever with just a simple stamp! Bravo!

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  35. What awesome cards, girlie!!! Congrats on your new DT gig!! Woot Woot!!!

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  36. LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about your cards!
    Thank you for the "making of"!
    Anni

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  37. What an impressive debut Kelly! Congrats! stunning cards, so original.

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  38. Kelly, these cards are so inspiring! I love how you made all of them using one single stripe stamp! The birthday card is quite creative and I like the rainbow colors. The plaids are stamped perfectly (I have a stamp press, but I don't use it much...however, I am thinking of giving it another try after seeing this post!). As for the last card...I am still trying to figure out how you stamped it! It looks really cool! had to laugh about your comment on showing us the card halfway :D

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  39. Wow...love the colours and the strips! Clever cards.

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  40. Sorry- I meant stripes not strips. Once again -great cards.

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  41. I enjoyed your lovely cards with stripes, especially the first one, looks like giant bar code! Wonderful work Kelly!!!!

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  42. Oh my Kelly!

    You did it again!
    You stole my heart!

    I love your study of stripes!
    You are so good it almost hurts!!

    Wow.Wow.Wow!

    In French, I would say you are "brillantissime!"

    xx

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  43. Well you certainly knocked this challenge out of the park, Kelly! Totally inspiring!

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  44. I don't normally make my own cards, but I love this! I wonder if there is an expiration code :) That may not be the best B Day card :) We are starting a link up party on Thursdays (today:), and we would love for you to join us with this post and/or any others you would like to include. We are at allthingswithpurpose.com. Hope to see you there!!

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  45. You are just one amazingly creative girl! Seeing your cards always makes me want to by new stuff - those stripes - WOW - I am speechless!

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  46. Oh my goodness! Love it! What stamp did you use? I'll have to start looking for stripes now. Love the possibilities!

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    1. Thanks Lezerlie! I used the stamp with the three lines from CASual Fridays WTF set. You can see it here: http://www.cas-ualfridaysstamps.com/WTF-CFSS-12-001.htm

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