Sweet Stampin’ Challenge: Stripes or Chevrons

Hi there! Can you believe it’s already the 1st of August? This year is absolutely flying by. Today I’m sharing my latest card for the Sweet Stampin’ Challenge, where this month’s theme is “Stripes or Chevrons.”

I started by looking through my patterned paper stash for something that would suit the theme, and I found a chevron paper that immediately sparked the idea for this card.

To build the design, I trimmed a panel of the chevron paper and placed it across the centre of the card front. From there, I chose the focal image and sentiment. Lucy from Peanuts was the perfect fit, and the sentiment from the Peanuts stamp set finished everything off beautifully.

I stamped Lucy onto white card, die cut her with an oval shape, and coloured the image with alcohol markers. I added a black lacy mat for contrast, then white embossed the sentiment directly onto the patterned paper. I love how the bold chevrons work with the classic character image to create a fun, cheerful card.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you’ll join us at Sweet Stampin’ and share your own striped or chevron-inspired creation!

Creating a Peanuts-Inspired Card

Last week, I was lucky enough to get my hands on Creative Stamping issue #156, which included a fabulous freebie stamp set called Positively Peanuts. The set features lots of lovely images from the Peanuts gang, and I was so excited to start creating with it. Here in New Zealand, UK magazines usually take around six months to arrive, so this one felt like a real treat. After a quick look online, I discovered just how popular this issue has been—it has sold out on the CraftWork website and in many other places around the world.

To get some inspiration, I joined a Facebook group dedicated to using this stamp set.  There are so many talented makers out there, and I loved seeing the beautiful designs people were sharing. It was the perfect way to spark ideas before starting my own project.

Here’s the card I created using this adorable set.

I decided to use a square panel and a heart aperture die for the design, backing the panel with black card to make the shape stand out. For the main image, I chose Snoopy and Charlie Brown. I first stamped the image directly onto the panel so that it overlapped the heart opening, then stamped it again onto a scrap piece of white card. After colouring the second image, I carefully fussy cut it, trimming away the fine outline lines, and layered it over the original stamped image for extra dimension.

To finish the card, I added a few red die-cut hearts around the image and included a sentiment from the stamp set. I’m really happy with how it turned out, and this project was such a fun way to use this fabulous magazine freebie. My friend, Carol, saw this one on Facebook and has let me know she got the last one at her local bookstore too!