Celebrate with Cake - Stampin' Up! Attention Shoppers

 This week is a week of birthdays at our house!  Both of my boys have birthdays in the span of 4 days so there is a lot of gifts, good food and cake in our house right now.  I used a combo of older and new supplies to make this star filled birthday card for my oldest.

  This panel of Bright & Beautiful DSP (which is a carryover from the last Annual Catalog that you can find in the Online Store) seemed like a fun inspiration to get this card started.  I pulled my base color, Blueberry Bushel, from it and then added a panel of the same color embossed with the Dotted Circles embossing folder so you can see some texture peeking out the sides.

  The sentiment is from Heartfelt Hexagons and is stamped in Blueberry Bushel ink and then punched with the Heartfelt Hexagon punch.  I punched a second hexagon to be a base for the cake.

  I used the cake from the Attention Shoppers stamp set and then colored it in with Blends markers adding a tiny little bit of gold Wink of Stella for the flames.  Once it was colored I fussy cut the cake (because I totally forgot there was a die for it!) and popped it on the the hexagon with dimensionals.

  A long retired star punch was used to punch out a few more stars in some of the DSP colors.  I colored them with clear Wink of Stella so they have a nice sparkle to them in real life.  The stars are all added to the card front with dimensionals too.

  All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Heartfelt Hexagons, Attention Shoppers

Ink: Blueberry Bushel

Blends: Azure Afternoon light & dark, Lemon Lime Twist light & dark, Lemon Lolly light & dark

Paper: Blueberry Bushel, Basic White, Bright & Beautiful DSP, Azure Afternoon, Lemon Lolly, Lemon Lime Twist

Accessories: Dotted Circles embossing folder, Heartfelt Hexagon punch, dimensionals, Wink of Stella, small star punch (retired)

Retro Birthday Message - Stampin' Up! Tune In

   The Tune In bundle is for you if you need a stamp set that has fun vibes for birthday cards and that works well for those hard to create for guys in your life! And that wide open TV screen can accommodate so many other sentiments so you can make a variety of cards not just birthdays!

  This one starts with a neutral card base in Basic Beige, then a layer of Pretty Peacock embossed with the Dotted Circles embossing folder.

  2 narrow strips of Crushed Curry cardstock create and anchor for the TV placement as well as bring in another color to add to the retro palette.  The TV is stamped in Copper Clay onto Copper Clay cardstock and is then die cut.  

  The sentiment and antennae are stamped in Pretty Peacock on Basic Beige and the electricity bolts are stamped in Crushed Curry on Basic Beige as well.  All of these are die cut and added to the card front.  The antennae is colored in with a Copper Clay blends marker.  Various elements are popped up on dimensionals so no flat screen TVs here lol!

  The final detail are the 2 adhesive-backed texture dots that are added to the TV knobs.

  All of the current products used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Tune In

Ink: Pretty Peacock, Copper Clay, Crushed Curry

Blends: Copper Clay light

Paper: Basic Beige, Pretty Peacock, Crushed Curry, Copper Clay

Accessories: Tune In dies, dimensionals, Dotted Circles embossing folders, adhesive-backed texture dots

Best Friend Sympathy - Stampin' Up! Happy Tails

 The Happy Tails stamp set is one that I will never get rid of no mater how long it's been retired.  It's probably the most used of my few retired sets and the coordinating punch is an exact match to my dogs silhouettes.  Unfortunately I had to make a sympathy card recently for a friend who had to say good-bye to her sweet Labrador but Happy Tails was just the right stamp set to use to let her know how sorry I was.

  The Country Lace DSP gave me a good starting place for this card as the soft colors and subtle patterns in this pack are a nice tone-on-tone.  I used a Basic White thick card base and then chose one of the Basic Beige patterns for the next layer.

  I stamped the sentiment from Heartfelt Hexagons in Basic Beige on a strip of Basic White.  I die cut a large heart (with retired dies) in Petal Pink then embossed it with the Eyelet embossing folder.  The Eyelet embossing folder echoes the patterns on the DSP for some nice coordination.

  The pup is stamped in Versamark on Basic Black cardstock them embossed with clear embossing powder.  After he's punched out out I popped him up on the large heart and then added a smaller punched heart in Calypso Coral also popped up.

  All of the current products used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Happy Tails (retired), Heartfelt Hexagons

Ink: Basic Beige, Versamark

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Basic Black, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Country Lace DSP

Accessories: Dog builder punch (retired), Eyelet embossing folder, Heart dies (retired), dimensionals

Wildflower Spotlight - Stampin' Up! Wildflower Designs

   We made this design in my last class and I loved showing off the new Wildflower Designs bundle paired up with my new favorite circle dies: Spotlight on Nature dies.  The Spotlight on Nature dies are just lovely with 3 different designs along the edges of the 12 dies (so many!!) for great mix and match layering possibilities.

  The basis for the color combo is directly from the Wildly Flowering DSP that coordinates with the Wildflower Design bundle.  So pretty all around.  The card starts with a Crumb Cake base and then we took a panel of the DSP (my stampers could choose this blue design or a similar one with a Crumb Cake background depending on which they liked better) and added some scallops in Mossy Meadow along some of each side.  

  The scallops are cut from one of the frames that comes in the Wildly Flowering die set.  Just cut out a frame trim the long parts of the scallops and add them to the DSP.  Next the Spotlight on nature dies are used to cut 2 circles and the flower image is stamped on the Basic White one.

  Using blender pens and ink we lightly colored the image and then popped it on the Mossy Meadow circle.  The sentiment is stamped in Mossy Meadow onto a strip of Moody Mauve and is also popped on dimensionals.

  The embellishments are a floppy linen thread bow for some texture and 2 Adhesive-backed sparkle gems in the champagne color.

  All of the items used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Wild Flower Designs

Ink: Mossy Meadow, Moody Mauve

Paper: Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Basic White, Wildly Flowering DSP

Accessories: Wildflower Designs dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, dimensionals, linen thread, blender pens, Adhesive-backed Sparkle Gems

Badger Birthday - Stampin' Up! Hearts & Hugs

   I recently sold a ton of my card stash to family members so now it's time to re-stock my bins and since birthday cards are always a need for me (and apparently my family members!) I decided to use the Hearts & Hugs bundle to make a sweet badger birthday card to get started.

  Don't have a lot of time for coloring or just don't feel like doing a lot of coloring with this set?  It's easy to just emboss or stamp the animal images onto neutral or colored cardstock and you're finished!  For these badgers I embossed them with white embossing powder onto black cardstock and did a tiny bit of coloring with just a white watercolor pencil around their eyes.  So easy!

  The card base is a Basic White thick, then a layer of Summer Splash and the top layer is also Basic White.  On the top layer I lightly blended some Summer splash ink with a blending brush to give the badgers a bit of a background.  I popped them up with dimensionals then added some stamped hearts to the side also in Summer Splash ink.

  The sentiment from Simply Said is stamped in Memento Black onto Summer Splash card stock and then die cut with the banner die in the Hearts & Hugs die set.  I tucked the banner under the badgers feet and adhered it with dimensionals.

  All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Hearts & Hugs, Simply Said

Ink: Versamark, Memento Black, Summer Splash

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Summer Splash, Basic Black

Accessories: Hearts & Hugs dies, dimensionals, blending brush, white water color pencil

Birdhouse Blues - Stampin' Up! Country Birdhouse

  Well it's been a hot minute since I've shared a project hasn't it?  And hot can be taken a few ways at least here in Central Virginia!  I was out of town last week and I even brought my computer to share a few projects but I just didn't make the time to do it and then once I got back home there was a bajillion (actual number!) things that needed my attention.  And I may or may not have spent several hours at the pool with my book because that was about the only way being outside was bearable!  But now I've finally grabbed a few minutes to try to get back in the swing of things stamping-wise!

  My stampers made this design a few weeks ago at class and it was the first time I've shown them the Country Birdhouse bundle and they all thought it was adorable!  How can you not love this sweet stamp set and the dies just make it even better!

  I used a lot of new product on this card because I don't want my stampers to miss out on anything!  I also showed them the quick trick of how to stamp mirror images using the silicone craft mat since this set only comes with one bird image and I wanted 2 birds towards each other!.

  We started with a Misty Moonlight card base, then a layer of Basic White is embossed with the sweet Eyelet embossing folder.

  Next the birdhouse is die cut using pieces of Country Woods DSP, Basic White and an Early Espresso punched circle for the opening and also for the hanging bow.

  The flowers and one bird are stamped in Misty Moonlight onto Basic White.  To make the mirror image stamp the bird onto the silicone craft mat and then carefully press a piece of Basic White over the image. Voila!  You've now got a bird facing the opposite direction! To die cut the mirror image simply hold the image up to a bright light or a bright window and line the die up on the back of the image and secure it with a piece of painters tape, masking paper or washi tape and then run it through your die cutter.  Below is a quick video showing how I did the stamping.

  

  After all of the images were stamped they are colored in with Stampin' Blends then die cut and added to the card front.  The birdhouse fills up pretty much all of the card front so it doesn't need much else to finish the card.  We added a few Pool Party adhesive-backed Dots for Days as a final touch.

  All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

 Stamps: Country Birdhouse

Ink: Misty Moonlight

Blends: Pool Party light & dark, Petal Pink light & dark, Crumb Cake light, Lemon Lolly light

Paper: Misty Moonlight, Basic White, Country Woods DSP, Early Espresso

Accessories: Country Birdhouse dies, dimensionals, Adhesive-backed Dots for Days, circle punch, Eyelet embossing folder, silicone craft mat

Hey Good Lookin' - Stampin' Up! Saying Hey

   My card today is a bright, cheerful hello card that was inspired by the prompt of 'critters' over at Addicted to CAS challenge.  I used 2 stamp sets that you might overlook when paging through the catalog.  The Choose Happy and Sayin' Hey stamp sets are both on page 24 and have mostly word stamps but have a lot of versatility for every day cards for all year round.  If you journal or keep a planner the Choose Happy might be just thing to jazz up your calendars and to-do lists!  

  Since this challenge is a clean and simple one I stayed with a plain Basic White card base and used the rest of the colors pretty sparingly.  I stamped the Hey in Blueberry Bushel and the sun from Choose Happy in Daffodil Delight and then colored it in with Blends markers.  I cut the images out with a Stylish Shape square. Next I stamped the penguin (also in Choose Happy) and fussy cut it and popped it up on another die cut square in Poppy Parade.

  The rest of the sentiment is stamped in Versamark on Blueberry Bushel and then embossed in white and cut into a banner with the Stylish Shapes dies.

  I arranged the squares and banner roughly following one of the sketch samples on page 22 of the Annual Catalog.  And it being a clean and simple card I left off any other embellishment.

  All of the products used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Sayin' Hey, Choose Happy

Ink: Blueberry Bushel, Versamark, Memento Black, Daffodil Delight

Blends: Daffodil Delight light & dark

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Poppy Parade

Accessories: Stylish Shapes dies, dimensionals

Hey Friend - Stampin' Up! Attention Shoppers

   My card today is inspired by 2 challenges that got the ball rolling for me when I was in a bit of a design funk.  I used the Just Add Ink layout along with a trio of prompts from the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  The Tic Tac Toe line that I chose is the top left to bottom right diagonal of 'friendship theme, flowers and bright colors.  What a great combo! Look what I came up with!

  How's that for bright colors?  I used Lemon Lime Twist for the card base as well as for stamping the large Leaf Collection background stamp. Before adhering the leaf panel to the card front I wrapped a bit of Lemon Lime Twist ribbon around it and added a knot.

  The Spotlight on Nature circle dies were perfect for making the circle element from the sketch on which I stamped the big 'hey' from the Saying Hey stamp set. I just love the different detailed edges of this set!  I stamped 'I miss your face' on the inside; perfect to send to a friend I haven't seen in a long time. The trimmed circle is popped on dimensionals.

  Next I stamped 3 of the flower bouquets from the Attention Shoppers stamp set and then used Blends markers to color them in.  I die cut the bouquets and layered them around the circle.

 Finally I added some Pretty in Pink 2024-2026 In Color Resin Dots to decorate around the 'hey'.  I love that these resin dots are a bit flatter than some of the other embellishments so I think they will be great for mailing.

  All of the current products used to make this card can be found in my ONLINE STORE.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Leaf Collection, Attention Shoppers, Saying Hey

Ink: Lemon Lime Twist, Memento Black

Blends: Summer Splash light, Pretty in Pink light & dark, Flirty Flamingo light & dark, Crumb Cake light & dark

Accessories: Spotlight on Nature dies, dimensionals, Attention Shoppers dies, 2024-2026 In Color resin dots, Ribbon Duo Combo Pack Lemon Lime Twist (retired)