Wheelie Happy Birthday - Stampin' Up!® Along These Lines

     Not only do do both of my boys have July birthdays we also have a niece and nephew who celebrate theirs in July as well so I needed quite a few teen birthday cards this month.  My ideas for punch art cards were tapped out after doing SpongeBob and Curtis the Cat so I went back to stamping for the card for our nephew!  I was inspired by the Paper Players challenge of clean and simple "things with wheels" but my card didn't end up clean and simple so I'm not sharing it there but wanted to give credit for the inspiration.  I went with the dad joke of "Hope you have a wheelie Happy Birthday" for the inside; teens love those jokes I'm told lol!

  I didn't really have a plan when I started other than using the bike image from Along These Lines stamp set so I pulled a few colors out that seemed like fun summer colors and then cut some bands at 1 3/8" wide in Timid Tiger, Lemon Lolly, Azure Afternoon and Coastal Cabana.  I stamped each band with the bike in the same color ink going all the way across linking each image to the next.

  Then I adhered each band across a Basic White thick card base and then trimmed off the overhang.  I stamped the bike again but this time in Versamark onto Basic White and then embossed it in black.  I used the Stylish Shapes dies to cut the circle.  Using Stampin' Write markers in a few of the card colors I  highlighted a few parts of the bike.  Helpful hint: don't use Blends when coloring in embossed images as the alcohol ink reacts with the embossing and pulls the embossing away if they touch.

  Finally I stamped and embossed the sentiment from The Right Words onto Timid Tiger cardstock and popped that above the bike and added a retired faceted gem for the embellishment.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

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Stamps: Along These Lines, The Right Words (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Versamark, Timid Tiger, Lemon Lolly, Azure Afternoon, Coastal Cabana

Paper: Timid Tiger, Lemon Lolly, Azure Afternoon, Coastal Cabana, Basic White thick, Basic White

Accessories: black embossing powder, Stylish Shapes dies, dimensionals, faceted gem (retired)