Simon Says Stamp Artful Palette Card

Today I’m honored to be guest designer at the Try It On Tuesday Card Challenge Blog.

Since today’s challenge theme is Numbers, I considered making a birthday card, but then decided to go for an anniversary card. My daughter’s first wedding anniversary is in August. I knew from the get-go that I’d use the Tim Holtz Bulletin Alphanumeric set of dies. They’re my favorite set of alphas.

When I first saw the Simon Says Stamp Artful Palette Dies and Templates I was smitten. And when I got my hands on them along with the 8 x 8” pink, green and orange Tim Holtz Palette Paper Collections, I was in love. What a perfect combo for a zillion easy cards.

I chose the green Palette Paper Collection and hunted through the beautiful green patterns until I’d found my ideal cut outs. I had seen a card by Tina Smith for Simon Says Stamp where she used vellum layers over parts of the squares. I thought it was genius. I took some heavyweight vellum paper and stamped on it with two different stamps from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Messages Everyday set in order to get the Happy Anniversary and the word Years. I heat embossed these onto the vellum using Ink On 3 Gold Rush embossing powder and then die cut them with the Artful Palette dies. I carefully ripped them and then adhered them to the other elements like this: The piece with Year on it allowed me to easily hide liquid adhesive under the planned placement of the giant 1. The Happy Anniversary piece needed an adhesive hiding spot so I added 2 tiny little hearts from another die I had (can’t remember which one) and hid the adhesive here. I also took a toothpick and hid a little glue under the letters (that was hard and took my strongest eye glasses).

I used Tim Holtz’s Bulletin Alphabet to cut out the 1 from thick black cardstock. I also cut the number one from matte gold cardstock and used just the inner portion to adhere to the center of the black one. 

I also cut a heart and a butterfly from the gold, and a larger butterfly from the black and adhered all this as shown. I splattered a piece of 4 x 5.25” Basic Beige Stampin’ Up! cardstock with Tim Holtz Black Distress Paint using a tiny paint brush and his Splat Box. I mounted all this on an A2 piece of black cardstock.

What number will you choose for your Try It On Tuesday project? Look forward to seeing how you play along with us.

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