My Give Peace a Chance Card

Card with a Hippie Girl
My Give Peace a Chance Card Closed

Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Laurie here! I am sharing My Give Peace a Chance Card as my Design Team Inspiration Card for Paper Nest Dolls using the new release Decade Collection Hippie Ellie. With everything going on in the world right now, I thought this was a very appropriate card for the times!

The Details of My Card

I had a lot of fun colouring Hippie Ellie with my Copic markers! Don’t you just love her jeans with the patches and her suede fringe vest! She is such a groovy hipster!

For my card, I found this perfect paper that had a Seventies theme! I loved it so much that I wanted to use a whole sheet for my card front! So, I used a fun fold called a Z-Fold Card for the card base, but I reversed it into a backwards Z. I wanted the love bug to show on the front with Ellie when the card is closed. This type of card folds up to a regular A2 card but allows for lots of room to decorate! It also is neat how you open it, and the paper continually keeps going! 

Card Laid Flat
Full Card Laid Flat

Since the paper was so detailed, I only used a few dies to dress it up such as the Love, Peace, daisies, and peace sign. They were from the Retro Bus by Elizabeth Craft Designs. I bought this set planning to use them for the Decade Dolls and they were perfect for Hippie Ellie! A couple of sequins and glimmery dots for the flower centres was all the embellishments this card needed.

Card Open
Card Showing Fold Standing Up

Measurements

Card Base:  5 ½” x 8 ½”, score at 4 ¼” and 2 1/8”.  Cut the Seventies 6” x 6” paper to 5 ¼” tall, then cut at 2” and 4:”. You could leave the last panel for your sentiment, but I decided to add a fourth panel using a 2” piece of floral rice paper as a background for my coloured stamp.

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Copic Markers

Skin: E04/E11/E21/E00/E000/R20
Hair: E39/E37/E35/E33
Jeans: B99/B97/B95/B93/B91
Top: R29/R27/R24/R22
Vest: E29/E27/E25/E23/E21
Shoes: E29/E27/E25/E23
Green: G99/G94/G21
Flowers: R29/R24/R22/Y38

Close Up of Hippie Stamp
Close Up of Hippie Ellie

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Card Recipe for My Give Peace a Chance Card

Decade Collection Hippie Ellie, Paper Nest Dolls
Paper Basics – Stamper’s Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Seventies 6” x 6” Paper Pad, Ciao Bella
1928: Retro Bus Dies, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Rice Paper A4 Love Peace Joy, Ciao Bella
Artistry Blooms Adhesive-Backed Sequins, Stampin’ Up!
Glittery Enamel Dots, Stampin’ Up!
Real Red and Basic White Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 5 ½” x 4 ¼”

Card Standing Up
Card Standing Up

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To view my other Paper Nest Dolls cards, please click here.

My Other Cards in the Decade Collection

For more information on my cards, please click the photos.

Card with 50s greaser and girl with poodle skirt
My Grease Lightning Card
Card with a Girl from Seventies and a retro bus on it
My Road Trip Card

Hope you like my Design Team Inspiration Card using
Decade Collection Hippie Ellie by Paper Nest Dolls!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie

Heartfelt Sunflower Wishes Card

A card with a Sunflower on it
Heartfelt Sunflower Wishes Card

Hello Crafty Friends! Laurie here again! I am sharing my Heartfelt Sunflower Wishes Card using the Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle by Stampin’ Up! This bundle is currently on sale for the March 2022 Savings Are in Bloom Sale. Check it out in my online store: https://www.stampinup.ca/products/celebrate-sunflowers-bundle-(english)?demoid=2103981.

The Details of My Card

For my card, I wanted to show my support for the Ukraine people. My heart bleeds for them and anyone who are affected by this war! So, I decided to create a sunflower card since it is their national flower. I also decided to use Bumblebee and Pacific Point as my card stock choices to reflect the colours of the Ukrainian flag. 

To highlight the sunflowers, I stamped in Pacific Point the sky stamp from the Oceanfront Stamp Set a couple of times on the Basic White card stock. I love how it peeks out from the top die cut sunflower! Once that was done, I layered my pieces. The sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder and punched out with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. A scattering of epoxy shapes represents the “tears of the people” in my mind.

I have created several cards with this bundle in the past. I will include links to the cards at the bottom of this post. There is even a quick video on YouTube explaining the advanced colouring technique I used on the sunflower.

Colouring Video of Sunflower
Colouring Video of Sunflower

Supplies:

Stamps/Bundles/Dies: Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle (154065), Oceanfront Stamp Set (157862), Lovely You Stamp Set (152525)

Inks: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad (132708), VersaMark Ink (102283), Pacific Point Classic Stampin’ Pad (147098)

Paper: Pacific Point (111350), Bumblebee (153077), Basic White (159276), Old Olive (100702)

Accessories: Lovely Labels Pick a Punch (152883), Silver & Clear Epoxy Essentials (155567), Basics Embossing Powder (155554), Mango Melody Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack, Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (154881), Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack (154906), Stampin’ Blends Color Lifter (144608), Heat Tool (129053), Bone Folder (102300), Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430), Stampin’ Seal (152813), Mini Glue Dots (103683)

Close Up of the Coloured Sunflower on the card
Close Up of Coloured Sunflower on Card

Measurements: 

  • Pacific Point: (2 pieces)
    • 5 ½” x 8 ½” scored a 4 ¼”
    • Scrap (sentiment)
  • Bumblebee: (2 pieces)
    • 5 1/8” x 3 7/8”
    • 3 5/16” x 3 ¼” (sunflower)
  • Old Olive: (3 pieces)
    • Scraps (leaves – 3 pieces)
  • Basic White: (2 pieces)     
    • 3 ¾” x 5”
    • 3 5/16” x 3 ¼” (sunflower)

More Information on my Heartfelt Sunflower Wishes Card:

For more of my Stampin’ Up! cards, please click here.

For the other items on sale, please click here.

For the Celebrate Sunflowers Bundle, please click here.

You will find the items listed above in my online store.

Let’s Celebrate You Card

Link to post: https://stampwithlaurie.com/lets-celebrate-you-card/

Video Tutorial: Flicking of Different Colours Technique

Let's Celebrate You Card
Let’s Celebrate You Card

My Congratulations Card

Link to post: https://stampwithlaurie.com/my-congratulations-card/

My Sunflower Congratulation Card
My Sunflower Congratulation Card

I’m sharing my card at the following challenges:

Color Hues-Special Double Challenge: Blue and Yellow
The Flower Challenge #66 Use Scraps

My Tears for Ukraine Card

Squirrel holding a sunflowers with tear in his eye
My Tears for Ukraine Card

Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Laurie here! I am sharing My Tears for Ukraine Card using the Clarence with Sunflower for Ukraine illustrated by Dustin Pike for The Rabbit Hole Designs. The people at TRHD were kind enough to make this stamp free so that we can all show our support for the Ukraine.

This stamp really sums up how I feel about all the unrest going on with Russia and the Ukraine! My heart bleeds for the Ukraine! So, I wanted to show my support in the best what I can…through my crafting!

The Details of My Card

For my card, I decided to make the stamp the focal point with minimal embellishments and paper since this card is all about the message!

I coloured Clarence and his sunflower with my Copic markers and added a few accents with my White Gelly Roll Pen on the seeds of the sunflower.

I decided to use Daffodil Delight and Pacific Point as my card stock choices to reflect the colours of the Ukrainian flag. A couple of layered paper flags under the “heartfelt” sentiment help to set it off. I wanted it to be highlighted since this is what my card is all about. To match my colour choices, I coloured some clear rhinestones with my Copic markers. Finally, I added some clear epoxy stickers on certain parts of the flower to represent the tears of the people. 

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Copic Markers:

Fur/Flower Centre: E49/E77/E74/E71
Tummy/Eyes: C3/C1/0
Petals: E15/Y38/Y15/Y21
Stem/Leaves/Grass: G07/YG23/YG11
Rocks: C4/C3/C1
Sky: B02/B00/B000/0
Rhinestones: G07/B02/Y38

Close Up of Stamp
Close Up of Clarence with Sunflower for Ukraine

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Card Recipe for My Tears for Ukraine Card:

Clarence with Sunflower for Ukraine, The Rabbit Hole Designs
Paper Basics – Stamper’s Select White Cardstock, Papertrey Ink
Regals colour collection with this Regals 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, Stampin’ Up!
Brights colour collection with this Brights 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, Stampin’ Up!
Tasteful Labels Dies, Stampin’ Up!
Basics Embossing Powder, Stampin Up!
Lovely You Stamp Set, Stampin Up!
Rhinestones Basic Jewels, Stampin’ Up!
Heat Tool, Stampin’ Up!
Silver & Clear Epoxy Stickers, Stampin’ Up!
White Gelly Roll Pen
Pacific Point and Daffodil Delight Card Stock, Stampin’ Up!

Finished card size: 5.5” x 4.25”

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To view my other Copic Marker cards, please click here.

Hope you like my card in support of the Ukraine using the free digital stamp
Clarence with Sunflower for Ukraine from The Rabbit Hole Designs!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,
Laurie