OK...just so you know the title is a Weekend Set...notice the missing word? I was just playing around with SU!'s new Circle Circus, and I had so many ideas floating around that I wanted to try that I just couldn't wait for the weekend for all the sketches. I can hardly believe I worked without them, I so love my sketches, but I like the way they turned out so! Oh, and just so you know, these are all SUO!!
I started with Wednesday's Sketch Challenge #235 on SCS. It was a fun one that screamed Circle Circus! I particularly love this flower stamp, so I stamped it nine times in Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry and Dusty Durango. I punched it out with the 1 3/8" punch and popped them up on dimensionals. I added two little ribbon tabs in Dusty Durango and Rich Razzleberry and I had to borrow the sentiment from Taylored Expression's Beary Special Accessories because I couldn't find an SU! one that small! I layered the Whisper White on Crushed Curry and popped that up on dimensionals. I love it!
Recipe: Stamps: Circle Circus (SU!), Beary Special Accessories (Taylored Expressions) Paper: Whisper White, Crushed Curry Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry Accessories; 1 3/8" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, dimensionals, Rich Razzleberry & Dusty Durango polkadot grosgrain ribbon
This next card was inspired by Michelle Yungbauer's card here. She has a fabulous blog and is so gifted with design, I encourage you to drop in for a visit...you'll enjoy every minute you're there!
I started with a base of Rich Razzleberry textured cardstock and cut the top note in both Crushed Curry and the Razzleberry designer paper and pieced them together, tying them with Rich Razzleberry polka dot ribbon. I stamped the circles in several of the new In Colours (I love them!!), and positioned them on the topnote piece. I made a brad from the smaller image using the Build a Brad kit. The sentiment is from the "Define your Life" set, and it's stamped in Rich Razzleberry. The top note is adhered to the card base with dimensionals and that's it!
Recipe: Stamps: Circle Circus (SU!) Paper: Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, Razzleberry DP Ink: Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Rich Razzleberry Accessories: Rich Razzleberry polkadot grosgrain ribbon, top note die, dimensionals, Build a Brad
I just can't get enough of the top note, and I used it again for my next card! I "saw" the circle images as being perfect for flower centres, and that's how this card began, although it took the longest for me to finish. I originally had 3 flowers, but it took me forever to realize there was no way they were all going to fit on one card, so I finally cut it down to two.
I thought the one image seemed a perfect match for the fancy Filigree Brads so I created a Melon Mambo flower using the scallop circle punch, and the smaller flower uses the 5 Petal punch and a Build a Brad flower centre. The stems were cut freehand from Old Olive cardstock and the leaves are from the Felt Fusion flowers...a little idea I got from Susan Roberts (Rainy on SCS)! I used the bottom half of the Crushed Curry top note die left over from the card above, and added a scalloped border in Melon Mambo. The sentiment is from "Kind and Caring Thoughts", and the top not panel is adhered to the DP with dimensionals.
Recipe: Stamps: Circle Circus, Kind and Caring Thoughts (SU!) Paper: Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Razzled berry DP Ink: Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Versafine Onyx Black Accessories: Top Note die, Scallop border punch, Build a Brad, circle punches, Felt Fusion flowers, dimensionals
My last card is my personal favorite. The inspiration for this came from this card by Bethany Paull, and particularly the Text Box stamp by PTI. I kept to a monochromatic colour scheme and popped a few of the circle images up for interest. The sentiment is from the retired "Small Sayings" and what can I say...that's all she wrote!
Recipe: Stamps: Circle Circus (SU!) Paper: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry textured cardstock, Razzleberry DP Ink: Rich Razzleberry Accessories: dimensionals, Rich Razzleberry polka dot grosgrain ribbon
Oh, I just love this set! So many possibilities, I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot more of it!
I hope all my American friends are enjoying a wonderful Fourth of July weekend. We had our holiday on the first and I worked a full day today; I'm looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow! That's a treat I haven't experienced since school let out earlier this week. I hope to be back tomorrow with some pictures from DD's birthday party. It turned out really fun, and I want to thank everyone who offered up some games to play! We didn't have time to play them all, but those we did were a blast!
Happy Saturday! Thanks so much for spending a bit of it with me! I truly appreciate it when you do!
Laura
