Urban Underground Suite

Hello, Crafters.

When I went to Natalie’s training in January, she had prepared six cards for us to make during the afternoon.

Three were from the Sending Love Suite which is primarily
viewed as a Valentine set, but the three cards Natalie had come up with were
nothing to do with Valentine, and included a Thank You Card as well as a Birthday Card.

She was demonstrating that this suite offers a
lot more than the one occasion!

In fact this applies to most, if not all suites – having seen someones project yesterday wher she made a girly project using this Urban Underground Suite.

It’s just a question of thinking outside the box – sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t! LOL!

The other three cards were masculine cards using the Urban
Underground Suite, which is one of the sets I haven’t bought!

I don’t tend to
make the cards at training because I prefer to spend my time chatting and
exchanging ideas with other demonstrators, and then I make the cards when I get home.

But on this occasion, because I
don’t have the stamp set I made sure I’d stamped all the images; that way, I’d
be able to make the cards at home!

On this occasion, I didn’t make the cards when I arrived home
and have just started on them!

Today I decided I have a go with the Urban Underground set but came up
with my own design!

I started my card with a base of Basic Grey Cardstock (CS), then a layer
of Very Vanilla CS and a top layer of one of the Delightful Dijon designs from
the Urban Underground Specialty Designer Series Paper (DSP).

I’d stamped and fussy cut three sets of letters for DAD from the Urban
District Stamp Set while I was chatting at training!

I adhered the three
letters in a straight line down the left hand side.

I think they would have looked better if I’d centred the letters under each other – I’m not sure!

Using our Archival Basic
Grey Ink, I stamped HAPPY BIRTHDAY – which is from Guy Greetings Stamp Set –
onto the DSP layer in the bottom right-hand corner.

I took one 2″ strip of
Basic Grey CS, one in Very Vanila CS and one in a design from the DSP – each strip being
about 1/2″ shorter than the strip underneath.

I fish-tailed the ends using
the Triple Banner Punch and adhered them together and then onto the
top layer on the card of the card front on the right hand side.

The NUMBER ONE image had also been stamped previously at training, and cut out by hand, so I adhered it about halfway down the banner.

To finish the card, I
adhered a layer of Very Vanilla CS inside the card, and adhered another set of
DAD, overlapping them to ensure they fitted across the width of the card.

I prefer the letters put together like this, so I may well use the third set this way, too!