Category Archives: Cards

Creativity Blooms: Flowers | Joy Taylor

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Today Joy Taylor is here to share an amazing floral card featuring Mint Julep. Sadly, this also marks her last project as a member of the BG design time. We feel so lucky to have been able to feature your beautiful designs here for so long, Joy! Thank you for sharing your talent with us all!

 

BasicGrey | Flowers | Joy Taylor

 

Joy: I worked with the Mint Julep collection and created a unique handmade flower to add to any projects. This is great when you don’t always have the tools in your arsenal to create something pretty to add to a creation. To begin, I cut out three circles using 6 x 6 patterned paper and circle dies.

 

BasicGrey | Flowers | Joy Taylor

 

Using some scissors, start to cut into the center of the circle, making sure not to cut all the way through. I prefer to eyeball it in order to give the flower more character.

 

BasicGrey | Flowers | Joy Taylor

 

Adhere each of the circles together with some dimensional adhesive.

 

BasicGrey | Flowers | Joy Taylor

 

Add a center feature to the flower by threading some twine through a Vintage Button and adhere it to the center of the flower with a glue dot. Tie the twine into a bow and add to a card.

 

BasicGrey | Flowers | Joy Taylor

 

Trim a standard size card to form a top fold card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2,” trim a piece of patterned paper to measure 4 1/4 x 2″ and adhere to the base of the card, trim another strip of pattern paper 1/4 of an inch and adhere to the top of the other piece of pattern paper. Add the handmade flower with dimensional adhesive to the left hand side of the patterned paper and finish off by adding a stamp sentiment to the top of the card in addition to a few pearls.

 

BasicGrey | Flowers | Joy Taylor

 

This is sadly my last post for BasicGrey, I want to say a huge thanks not just to BasicGrey as a company but also to Shara and Mel who gave me the most amazing gift to be apart of this incredibly talented team and fabulous company, I have enjoyed every minute of my time with BasicGrey and have learnt so much…but with changes in my life, some hard decisions have had to be made and unfortunately I will be standing down from the BasicGrey team…

 

However, I will still continue to create with their amazing product and, who knows, you may see me back here guesting :) I wish BasicGrey, Shara and the rest of the team all the very best and thank them from the bottom of my heart…

 

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Mint Julep Mother’s Day Cards | Joscie Cutchens

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With only one week to go until Mother’s Day, we called on Joscie Cutchens to share a few beautiful cards using the soft pastels and feminine florals in our Mint Julep line. I will definitely be turning to her designs for inspiration as I create my own mom’s card this weekend!

 

BasicGrey | Mother's Day Cards | Mint Julep | Joscie Cutchens

BasicGrey | Mother's Day Cards | Mint Julep | Joscie Cutchens

BasicGrey | Mother's Day Cards | Mint Julep | Joscie Cutchens

 

Joscie: I created these three cards for Mother’s Day using the Mint Julep Collection. I added some pieces from the Snippets pad, a few stickers, candy buttons and machine stitching to finish it off. Some of my favorite bits from the Mint Julep collection come from the Die Cuts and Transparency Pack. I love using the transparency tag as a focal point and adding buttons and bits all around it.

 

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Hipster Vintage Stamps | Joy Taylor

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Hello lovely blog readers! I hope you all had a relaxing weekend and are ready for an inspiring new week. Today I have two fun Hipster projects to share with you. The first one is an awesome card designed by Joy Taylor that features our new Vintage Stamps!

 

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Joy: Hi everyone! I am back to share a fun masculine card with you all today, using some products from the Hipster collection.The colors and fun bits and bobs in this collection remind me of the 70′s when all the retro was around. Let’s dive in and I will show you how the card was created…

 

April Step 1

 

When creating with a collection, I usually start by pulling everything out on my table and looking at the various products to see what will match up well together.

 

April Step 3

 

Once I have selected the pieces as I have here, I begin to process a layout by trimming papers and laying down the fun accents to see where I wish to sit them on the card. When I am happy with the layout, I start adhering the papers to the front of the card and begin the layering process.

 

BasicGrey | Hipster | Joy Taylor

 

Here is the end result and how the card was pulled together. I have to say that I really enjoyed creating a masculine card this month and those Vintage Stamps…how cool are those? I love how they really do come as the old lick-and-stick stamps. I just know I am going to want to do more with them.

 

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Basic Card Sketch : 3.18.13

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BasicGrey Sketches

13 March BasicGrey Card

This week’s sketch from BG sketch artist Susan Stringfellow is perfect for the next time you find yourself needing a card.

Shari-Carroll-March-Card-Sketch Shari-Carroll-March-Card-Sketch-detail BG card designer Shari Carroll was the first to put this week’s sketch to use.  Shari notes, “I loved the sketch this month! It gave me a chance to add some layers (my addiction) and use some SPRING colors from Hey Girl! I changed up the design slightly to incorporate the Hanger Banner and instead of running ribbon or twine around the card, I used the little flag Garland.  Love the colors… and I hope you do to!”

Banner Card | Jana Eubank

Scrapbook designer JE also used this week’s sketch as the starting point for her card.  Jana says, “I love this card sketch by Susan! I thought the Ring Around the Rosies floral paper would be the perfect companion to the doily shape along the top of the sketch and chose colors from the flowers in the paper to create the dovetailed strips. Next, I used my electronic die cutting machine to cut a doily shape, I accented the center of it using a circular sticker from the Knee Highs Element Stickers. I wrapped green grosgrain ribbon around the top and accented the bow with a Knee Highs chipboard button. Finally, I tucked in a wooden flag printed with a sentiment. I can’t wait to send this card out to a special friend!”

Now it’s your turn! We’d love to see what you create from this week’s sketch. Leave a comment below with a link to your project and we’ll select one comment at random to receive a $10 credit to shop at basicgrey.com. Comment must be posted by March 24, 2013 at 11:59p MST.

If you upload your layout to your blog or online gallery, we hope you’ll also upload it to our BasicGrey flickr pool and note what products you’ve used so that other BG fans can find inspiration from your work easily.

 

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