Beautiful World

Do you struggle when making masculine cards?  Well, I usually do.  BUT this stamp set that I just got is making the task much easier.  Check out Beautiful World on page 26 of the Annual Catalog.  Actually, the whole suite is amazing - the patterned paper, embossing folder, stamps, dies, trim and the foil sheets.  Check out these cards I made last week with this set.

This card is a semi-CASE that one of our NC demos (Lisa Tedder) did during last Saturday's NC Demos Stamp Along event.  I made my card in silver - the globe, silver mat, and "flag" pieces on the sentiment.  I used the die for the globe and backed it onto a Misty Moonlight circle.  I colored the ribbon with my Misty Moonlight SU Blend pen.  To make the silver mat on the card, cut out the center of the silver foil and save it for die cutting the globe and flag pieces (a savings tip!)  Take a brayer and ink it up with  White Shimmer Paint.  Roll it over the Dry Brush stamp (or the Birch stamp) so the shimmer paint covers it.  Lay a piece of 5"x 3 3/4" black cardstock over the stamp and rub to transfer paint onto the black cardstock.  Heat set.  Next I took my Aqua Painter and splattered watered down shimmer paint all over the black cardstock.  Assemble the card using Misty Moonlight for the base.  I embossed the sentiment in silver.  I think it looks sorta like the Milky Way!

This card was a little bit of an experiment.  I embossed a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock (2 1/2" x 5 1/4") with the World Traveler embossing folder.  This folder retired a couple of years ago and I never used it.  It is one of the reasons I purchased this stamp set - because I thought they went together well.  I used a sponge dauber to ink up the embossed strip - in Misty Moonlight, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede.  Next I inked the piece up with VersaMark and sprinkled Copper embossing powder over it.  I took a paintbrush and brushed away a lot of the embossing powder before I heat embossed it.  I tried to just accent the coast lines of the countries with the powder.  I mounted this piece onto Misty Moonlight cardstock.  The globe was stamped onto Very Vanilla cardstock.  I sponged a bit of Misty Moonlight and Crumb Cake over the circle.  The mat is Soft Suede which is stamped with splatters and embossed on the very bottom before adhering it to the Misty Moonlight card.

OK - this is a simple one but is very striking!  I used the retired World Traveler embossing folder and embossed a piece of copper foil paper.  I wrapped a piece of (retired) black ribbon around the copper piece and adhered it to a black cardbase.  I made a 2" tag in black and adhered one of the globes in the center.  I stamped the sentiment on a window sheet with Versamark, embossed it with copper powder and used the die to cut out the sentiment circle before adhering it to the globe.  

Another easy one!  The card is Very Vanilla with a black mat adhered.  Next is a piece of patterned paper that I found in my stash.  I sponged the edges with Soft Suede ink.  I used colored pencils to lightly color the globe.  The globe stand is copper foil paper.  The feather is stamped with black ink;  I used a yellow pencil to color the feather before using Wink of Stella on it.  It's hard to tell, but I stamped the sentiment on a clear window sheet and adhered it to the card.  The globe base and the inkwell are both on top of the window sheet.

This card actually looks like it is embossed but it is not.  I used the matching die and die cut 7 globes.  Before die cutting them,  I adhered them to a piece of Merry Merlot cardstock with the new (welcome back!) Adhesive Sheets (see them on page 162.)  Then it was easy to adhere them down to the 5" x 3 3/4" Merry Merlot cardstock.  I sprinkled gold Wink of Stella over the whole card.  The feather is embossed in gold and the little swirl is die cut from gold foil.  The tag for the sentiment is from the Tasteful Labels dies in Smoky Slate.