#TGIFC316 - Sketch Challenge using Turtle Friends Bundle

 Hello & Happy Pre-Friday Crafty Friends! 

I'm super excited to share a card I put together that features one of my favorite stamp sets in the new 2021-2022 Annual Catalog by Stampin' Up!: Turtle Friends. I've combined this stamp set with this week's TGIF Challenge #316: Sketch Challenge.

1st ATTEMPT FOR CARD DESIGN

I tried and tried again on the design of my card until I got what I believe to be the best out of the three different designs I created.

It's funny how you have this idea in your head and it doesn't quite look like how you imagined. From this first sample below, I figured that the bright color strips were taking over the focus on the little turtles.

2nd ATTEMPT FOR CARD DESIGN

So I tried again and changed the colors of the cardstock strips to more of a monochromatic look and varied the widths of the strips too. Since some of the cardstock strips are a bit thinner, I had a little extra space to add a 3rd little turtle.

While I like this version better, I still felt like the white embossing took away from the focus of the little turtles. 

FINAL CARD DESIGN

This is when I developed my final version to remove the white embossing and just use some clear embossing. I also decided to add the cute little bird on top of one of the turtles as well as the clear-embossed hearts to resemble rain drops below the clouds. 

Those little turtles are cute, aren't they?! 

While this stamp set has a coordinating Turtle Punch, I made the mistake of just ordering the stamp set and not the bundle by using the wrong item code. BUMMER! But even if I did have the punch, I didn't need it for this card project. 

I hope to put together a video of how I created this card and upload it before the weekend so stay posted on that. See video below on how I put this card together. updated 5/21/21

CARDMAKING TIPS

• Use your blending brushes and some Pear Pizzaz and Coastal Cabana ink to create the background.
• The cardstock strip colors in order from bottom to top are: Soft Sea Foam, Pear Pizzaz, Old Olive, Garden Green and Mossy Meadow. There are two different widths I used for the strips and alternated them for each color: 3/8" x 4 1/8" and 1/2" x 4 1/8"

• Once the strips are cut to the widths and lengths described, stamp the sentiments with versamark and use clear embossing powder and the heat tool to finish the strips.
• Unfortunately, there's no punch or dies for the turtles and little bird so this does require some fussy-cutting. I colored the turtles using the following Stampin' Blends colors and stamped the shell image with the ink in "()": Crumb Cake (with a Soft Suede Shell), Soft Sea Foam (with a Soft Sea Foam shell), Old Olive (with a Mossy Meadow shell). 
• Pop up the turtles on the left and on the right with a dimensional for some added dimension. Use a mini dimensional for the little bird.
• The little bird was stamped on a Basic White piece of cardstock with Daffodil Delight ink and then I used the Mango Melody and Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker for the details. 
• The clouds were stamped on a piece of Basic White with Balmy Blue ink that was stamped off twice to get a subtle color of blue. The clouds came from the Mountain Air stamp set which I cut out with the coordinating Majestic Mountain dies.
• I carried over a few elements over from the card front onto the inside of the card as shown below. In order to keep the cutting and layering to a minimum, I had to do a little masking for the turtle and bird.

SUPPLY LIST

Click on the following link to view a full list of supplies used on this project: https://s.tamp.in/l4vWkS 

Well, this is it! I would love to hear your thoughts on the different card versions and which one you liked best. Comment below and let me know!

Until next time...