Guest Designer | August | Katrina Hunt

08/15/2013

Guest Designer | August | Katrina Hunt

Our August guest designer, Katrina Hunt, is celebrating back to school with us this week. She's created these super fun cards to ring in the new school year. Here's what she had to say about it:

This is a super quick card that I made with a cut file, but I loved the idea of a pencil card and wanted to make it!

With a title “school rules” this card could be given to your little one heading off for the first day of school or to your child’s teacher as a “welcome to the new school year” card. The colors of the papers worked perfectly to give the pencil detail and I added the twine, instead of cardstock, since I love to have bows on my cards!

Supplies: Sweet Shoppe (Lemon Drop 12 x 12 Paper-SSP284, Cotton Candy 12 x 12 Paper-SSP285, Sweet Shoppe Label Stickers-SSS297, Sweet Shoppe Letter Stickers-SSS298); Pinwheel (Flip-Flops 12 x 12 Paper-PWP311)

One of my favorite paper techniques is layers and more layers. I love cards that have layers. Also, I love distressing the edges of my layers. My cards today show my love of both.

The “thanks berry much” card was simply put together with layers that graduated into smaller sizes. Not only did I distress the edges of each layer, but I also used foam adhesive to pop those layers up and give more dimension to those layers. Layers with distressing are simple, but so effective to make a project stand out.

Supplies: Sweet Shoppe (Pink Mint 12 x 12 Paper-SSP290, Lemon Drop 12 x 12 Paper-SSP284, Sweet Shoppe Circles & Tags-SSS341), Destination (Atlas 12 x 12 Paper-DSP323), Pinwheel (Pinwheel Label Stickers-PWS316)

The “Hi Hey Hello” card uses layers, but in a totally different way. This isn’t necessarily a card that you would think you could mail, but if you lay the layers down on the balloon you would be able to. I used a cut file for the balloon, but you can make this type of embellishment with punched shapes, creating a fold in the middle and just attaching all the punched pieces together, back to back. Make sure to alternate your folds on your paper, so that you get both sides showing.

Supplies: Sweet Shoppe (Lemon Drop 12 x 12 Paper-SSP284), Pinwheel (Kite Strings 12 x 12 Paper-PWP306, Lime Rickey 12 x 12 Paper-PWP309, Ice Cream Truck 12 x 12-PWP310), Destination (Destination Letter Stickers-DSS336)

Hope I gave you some ideas to try out on your cards, or even you layouts! These work for both!

Thanks for the inspiration, Katrina! I can't wait to see what you create for next week.