Love you

Hi everyone. I am back today with another negative space card for this month's Trends Challenge at Scrpamaster's Paradise.

This was created using letter dies. SP & Co sells two different alphabet dies and I love BOTH of them. I used this one here Timeless Typewriter any alphabet die would work or you can use your electronic die cutting machine to get the same effect.

I started by  cutting a piece of paper down to 4 1/8 x  5 3/8 and making my card 4.25x5.50, I then die cut the speech bubble in my Silhouette software out of the 4. 1/8x5 3/8 paper. Then line up your dies and die cut them. Don't forget to reverse them.

I took a scrap piece of paper and laid my die cut paper over it so that I could get the size I would need for the rainbow strip. I put tick marks above and below the "i love you" and then I colored a rainbow on the strip with colored pencils. I then attached it to the back of the die cut paper.

I added lots of pop dots to the back of it.. I spritzed the little heart with some Tattered Angels spritz and taped it to the back of the speech bubble and then pop dotted all of that.

It was a very fast, very fun card to make. I hope you will join us in the Trends Challenge and show us what you do with negative space! There is a $25 Gift Certificate to the SP & Co store up for grabs for one lucky entrant!

You are my happy SP&Co Trends Challenge

Hey everyone! Today kicks off a new Trends Challenge over at Scrapmaster's Paradise. This time it was my turn to be hostess and I chose to go with the theme of Negative Space. I love to play with negative space.  Here is my first card:

I started with a 4.25 x 5.50 sheet of cardstock and stamped the new Happy Moments Journaling Frame on the front of my card in the new Ocean Waves ink. I then masked it off and used the the Small Polka Dots Background Stamp in gray. I cut the center of it out using an exacto knife and then I lightly traced the inside of it onto my card front so that I new where to stamp.

I masked off everywhere around my rectangle on the front of my card and then stamped the Circletastic Background in Flamingo Pink. I didn't want the pink to be really bright so I first stamped it off on a piece of scrap paper and then stamped it onto my card front. Here is a close up of it. I love the softness that the SP&Co chalk inks give off when you use this stamping technique.  I stamped my title, that comes with the Happy Moments stamp set and stamped it directly onto the chalk ink background.

I added some gray twine used a Sizzix butterfly I had in my stash and attached it to the front of my first card piece. I then added pop dots to the 4.25 x5.50 stamped cardstock and attached it to the front of my card.

I hope you will choose to play along with us. I will be back tomorrow with another negative space card. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Michelle