bike rider enjoy life card

blog hop bannerWelcome to our Di’s Country INKers May blog hop. Today we are featuring projects using products from the 2018-19 Stampin’ Up! catalog that goes live TODAY!

I’ve chosen the new Enjoy Life stamp set that Connie Fitzgerald helped design. When I saw the bike rider and read the greetings, I knew this set would be one of my first purchases out of the new catalog. My older son has been training for an Ironman triathlon. He rides his bike at least 25 miles 4-5 times a week, so the words “Wake Up. Kick butt. Repeat.” are perfect for his card.

In order to picture him riding along a road, I used watercolor paper as the base and applied a wash of Balmy Blue for the sky and Call Me Clover for the grass. I cut the road from Basic Gray CS and used the Stampin’ Write Chalk Marker to create the stripes and lines. The biker is stamped in Fresh Fig onto Whisper White CS and fussy cut. I applied him to the road using several Stampin’ Up! Mini Dimensionals. The greeting is cut out using the smallest Stitched Shape circle. To create the Pineapple Punch yellow mat, I traced around the outside of the framelit circle and cut it out by hand. The panel is attached to a Call Me Clover card.

new ink pad

Watercolor Tip: The new ink pad cases are too rigid to press ink into the lids. Instead, I lightly pressed one of the clear sheets off the back of the stamp set onto the ink pad (see photo). I will eventually purchase the ink refills, but for now this works well.

 

 

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Di         http://www.stampingwithdi.com

Barb    http://www.beelinestamping.com

Kathya http://www.stampwithkathya.com

Connie https://www.texasschoolmarm.com      (You are here!)

Trisha  http://www.creativelystamping.blog

 

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