Marnie's Mystery Challenge

Each month, my teammates and I participate in a team swap with a different theme each month.  This month it was a mystery challenge so everyone sent piece(s) to each other and wait to see how everyone interprets them.  We all have very different tastes and styles. This month,  I was given a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock that had been embosssed with the Bark 3D folder as my mystery challenge piece.  I don't currently have that folder but I see that changing in the very near future.  I immediately reached for the Sand and Sea DSP and thought the smaller elements from the Friends are like Seashells bundle would be a perfect fit.  If you would like to order any of the items I used to create this card, leave a comment in the section below.  If you would like to be a part of my team so you too, can participate in these fun swaps, please comment below.

Thanks for stopping by;

Mary Louise

East Coast Stamping with Mary Louise

Supply List:

Ink pads: Soft Suede (147115), Mossy Meadow  (147111), Flirty Flamingo (147052)

Cardstock: Crumb Cake (120953) ( 4”x5 ¼” and scrap ), Basic White(159276) (5 ½” x 8 ½” scored at 4 ¼” and scrap)

Designer Series Paper: Sand & Sea (154288) (5 ¼”x2, ½”x 5 1/5”)

Friends are like Seashells bundle (159516)

Paper Trimmer (152392), Everyday Label Punch (144668)

Stampin Cut and Emboss Machine (149653)

Adhesive (152813), dimensionals (104430)

Pastel Pearls (154571), acrylic blocks (118487, 118484) or stampartus (146276)

Bark 3D embossing folder (155431)

 

 

Step- By- Step Instructions:

Using your Cut and Emboss machine, cut white card base to 5 ½ x 8 ½ and score at 4 ¼

Emboss the Crumb Cake matte using the Bark 3D embossing folder in your Cut and Emboss machine

Stamp the small shells using Flirty Flamingo ink on scraps of Basic White cardstock, also, stamp the Sand Dollar stamp onto scrap of Basic White with Soft Suede ink.  Cut these pieces out using the Seaside Seashells Dies.

Stamp your sentiment onto a piece of Crumb Cake scrap using Soft Suede

Punch your sentiment out using the Everyday Label punch

Adhere your 2” wide strip of DSP onto your matte.  Add dimensionals to your sentiment and place on top of the dsp strip, next add some the shells and sand dollar die cuts.

For the inside, stamp your greeting in the center in Soft Suede.  Using the sea grass stamp, ink up in Mossy Meadow and stamp in lower, left corner up about a 1/8” from bottom.

  Repeat without reinking, stamping on either side of the first image twice.  Reink the stamp and do this process again, this time stamping slightly higher to achieve the look of taller grasses.

 Adhere the smaller piece of DSP along the bottom of the card and then adhere a seashell to the bottom of the grasses, slightly on top of the dsp.

Adhere the completed front of your card to the card base adding a few Pastel Pearls to it.