Blogger Challenge: Week 99

This week’s blogger challenge was to pick out one of your older cards and CASE yourself, making at least two changes in the new version of your card. I didn’t go back too far to find this card to work with. You can read my original blog post about the card here.

I really liked its clean and simple layout, so I decided to start with that. The original card had a pretty girlie feel to it, so I went in a completely opposite direction with my revised version.

I used the 3 Step Baseball set from Kitchen Sink Stamps to create this masculine card. The baseball mitt is stamped in different shades of brown ink on a cream panel (I try to start with a pigment ink layer for my first layer—I’ve found it makes a really nice base for the image). If you haven’t tried the multi step stamps yet from KSS and are curious about them, there’s a great tutorial on how they work here on Paper Craft Planet.

After playing around with arranging the elements on the cardfront, I flipped the layout from a vertical one to a horizontal one to fit my larger sentiment panel. The striped patterned paper I used has a weathered look to it that I thought was a nice match for the mitt image. I used a simple strip of twill tape along the edge of the panel. I resisted the urge to add some brads as embellishment.

For more fun takes on this challenge, you can visit the rest of the challenge players. Links to their blogs are in the sidebar on the right.

Materials Used:
3 Step Baseball stamp set (Kitchen Sink Stamps); Dune pigment ink (Color Box); Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, and Riding Hood Red Classic inks, Riding Hood Red, Night of Navy, and Very Vanilla cardstock, word window punch, sponge (Stampin’ Up!); patterned paper (Junkitz); circle dies (Nestabilities); twill tape (Martha Stewart)