Today I wanted to play along with the CPS sketch, it's my first time but PTI is one of the sponsors this month which gave me the kick in the butt I needed to play along. You can see my sample above!
Here is the sketch:
You'll notice I used strips of cardstock stamped with words again just as I did on this card and these two too.
Every time I post one of these cards I get a bunch of comments/emails saying it looks like it must have taken forever and so I wanted to take a few pictures to show how untrue that is. They are really quick and easy!
I start by just cutting several strips of paper 1/4" wide. I usually use my scraps to do this and just slide along my cutter in 1/4" increments until I get a big pile. Then I stamp them (I'm using PTI's clear stamps so it's really easy to line them up. I lay out a bunch of strips and then just stamp down the line, it takes a few seconds to go down the whole set of strips.
Then I run a piece of scrap paper through the xyron machine and just layer the strips on, budding each piece up to the previous one. I stagger them and don't worry about overlaps on the side.
Then I trim off the excess
Now you can just punch a shape, run it through a die cut machine, or trace something on the back. Here you can see 3 different hearts created three different ways.
For the first one, I punched it. The 2nd, I traced a Heidi Swapp chipboard piece onto the back, and the last one was a sizzix die-cut.
The chipboard shaped heart wound up on the first card up at the top of the post, here's what I did with the others.
Credits
Stamps: PTI Love Songs; Just for Fun Background Swirl
Paper: Sweet Blush, Raspberry Fizz, Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White , True Black, - all from PTI
Ink: PTI Raspberry Fizz, Sweet Blush, True Black, Aqua Mist
Dies: Nestabilities Rectangles & Scallop Rectangles (small), Sizzix Heart, EK Success Heart Punch, Martha Stewart Border Punch
Other: Pink satin ribbon, Kaiser Crystals, Heart Charm (Target $1 spot)