TGIF – Print Shop in Dark Mode + Save the Date!

Hiya! I hope you had a fabulous week! It’s been a hot one, summer is definitely here! Since I’m not a lover of the heat, that means time to turn on the AC and curl up in the craft room.

I have lots to share with you today including a couple of cards and a super early sneak peek of some new goodies coming to the shop! (shhhhh!)

Speaking of new goodies, mark your calendars! We have a new collection coming to the shop on Wednesday, June 29 called Sweet & Sunny and those two words pretty much sum it up. I’m excited!

We’ll share some official sneak peeks beginning a week from today, but I’m breaking the rules and sharing a super sneaky peek today! I really didn’t intend to when I started working on my projects for today’s TGIF, but they were just lying there on my desk and turned out to be the perfect thing for my projects. I couldn’t resist. I figure when you’re the boss you can get away with it, right? And I didn’t think you’d mind. 😉

For today’s projects, I started out with an idea to create some “dark mode” Print Shop cards. You’ve probably noticed my slight obsession with dark backgrounds lately – well, the obsession continues. I pulled out the latest additions to our Print Shop line-up – Garden Goodness and Daisy Days. I challenged myself to use a slightly different-to-me color combo (no pink allowed!) and wanted to try to create the feeling of a glowing garden.

For the Daisy Days card, I started out with the black panel from our matching Fill in the Blank papers. I stenciled the Daisy Days design using Oxide Inks in shades of blue, yellow, and green. I used Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire, Mowed Lawn, and Mustard Seed. I left the daisies white so my design would have some lightness to it, and stamped the daisy petal details using Tumbled Glass. The focal point is a pretty butterfly, which is one of my sneaky sneak peeks of what’s coming to the shop as part of our latest collection, and I’ll share more details about that soon!

For my second card I used the Print Shop: Garden Goodness stamps and stencils. I created the design on white cardstock, then used the matching die to cut an overlay from black cardstock. The dragonfly is another sneak peek (although it might look a little familiar *wink*). I used the same ink colors for my Garden Goodness panel that I listed above for the Daisy Days version.

The sentiments on both cards were stamped using the Curio: Labels set, stamped onto diecut labels from the Curio: Divider & Details die. For both of my cards I added some additional colored pencil shading to my stenciling/stamping as well as some white pen details to really make things pop on the black!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed my “dark mode” projects and they’ve inspired you to keep cool and keep crafting this weekend!