Hello there! Today’s card on page 53 of the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog was my jumping off point for this card. When you’re in a slump, CASE the catalog or CASE yourself. It’s always fun to change it up a bit, especially CASEing a card that you did 5 years ago with new techniques and products.
I absolutely loved the 2015-ish choice of designer series paper (DSP) that Stampin’ Up! had available. I call it the “Year of Watercolor,” where the DSP was in various types of watercolored images and patterns. It was great! It’s also made a comeback this year. I found my piece of DSP below in my TO SALE stack and thought it would be the perfect DSP for my card. I wanted the colors and the pattern reminds me of all of the stamp images you see out there with a whale that is blowing water out of its spout. It just worked.
I have a video for you below on how I made the fun nautical knot. If I had to do this again, I would use Thick Baker’s Twine or Kraft Rope Trim. The Natural Rope Trim retired at least 5 years ago. I’m sure I have a roll of it lying around somewhere. I should have gone with the Kraft and am honestly thinking about making another video just for the knot only in a Quick Tip using the Rope Trim so you can see how easy it really is…and my nails look a lot better too. The rope is 3-ply and I would leave it intact so that you can see what a great knot the thicker twine or rope provides for you. There’s several ways we will go over this. Below is a picture of the knot up close a bit more.
I like how my entire image panel turned out. It’s very clean and simple. I didn’t want to scatter it up with sequins or anything. I’m on an embellishment strike a little bit right now and I don’t know why. The cards I’ve made lately have a very strong focus on the image panel to where it holds its own, on its own, just fine. Clear as mud?
Below is my video and I hope that you enjoy it. As you know, I’m pretty generous with stuff and I cut a tad over a foot for each string of Linen Thread. I’m sure there’s something in your stash that you can use. There always is.
Thank you so very much for stopping by to visit me today. I hope that your day goes swimmingly and God bless.
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