Card Share: Guest Designing for Concord & 9th

One of the cool things about diving into card making is getting to know some of the creative, clever companies out there and getting to play with their stuff! Concord & 9th, one such company, invited me to be a guest card designer for the month of July. I was a little nervous about doing it, only because I still feel VERY green on the whole card thing and most of what I am doing is watching YouTube and learning from the masters out there. I feel like my design for this first card is very simple, with just enough technique to be interesting, and yet completely do-able!

I used the Sunshine Turnabout Bundle for my card this week!

The Turnabouts are cool because they are designed to stamp and turn using your stamp positioner! I used the Original Misti to create my card. You can watch a video on how they work here.

I created the background using a watercolor stamping technique that I recently learned from Jennifer McGuire. I cut a 6 x 6 panel of Canson XL watercolor paper and covered a very large Stampin’ Up acrylic block with smooshes of Distress Ink, wetting them down generously with a mister and stamping the block onto the paper. I left the block on the paper for five minutes, and then used a paper towel to sop up any of the extra water.

I let the paper dry completely before using the Sunshine Turnabout Stamp with Versamark ink. I added white embossing powder and made the background you see. I cut a panel using one of my Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle dies, backed it with some Fun Foam, and then mounted it onto the 4.25 x 5.5 white card base, which also features a larger stitched white cardstock panel. I love that generous margin of white space framing the card!

I cut out four scalloped circles, stacked and glued them together, and adhered them to the vellum circle where I stamped and embossed the sentiment. I added a little bit of thin foam adhesive to pop it up off the panel.

I’m a little geeked about the final results! Thanks, Concord & 9th!

I’ll be back with another Concord & 9th card next Friday as the guest designer series continues!

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