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Birthday Ride

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This is the final card I made while at my mom’s house.

This time I wanted to have a bright sunny watercolored scene. I pulled out the hostess set – Summer Afternoon and went at it.

I mounted the watercolored panel on Daffodil yellow to help bring out the sunny background.

The sentiment is normally two lines, but I wanted all on one – so some simple masking and I got it done.

Thanks for taking a peek!

happy birthday
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Summer Afternoon, Made for You;
Colors: Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake, Basic Grey, Lucky Limeade;
Other: nothing!

3 Cheers

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This is another card I made at my mom’s. This is the new Happy Hour set (after playing with it, I decided it would be a good one to have – sometimes I just love a solid image).

My kiddo doesn’t think “3 cheers” is a good birthday sentiment, but I do!

All the glasses and accessories are hand-cut. For the final touch, I added a bit of Dazzling Details glitter glue on the strawberry, margarita glass rim, and umbrella.

Thanks for taking a peek!

3 Cheers for You
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Happy Hour;
Colors: Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry;
Other: Summer Smooches DSP, Dazzling Details, Corner Rounder punch;

In My Thoughts

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I was at my mom’s house just before StampinUp Convention. Mom handed me a panel of Pretty in Pink and the Reason to Smile set and said make a card for swapping. Hmmm.

I ended up pulling the Pink Pirouette DSP from the pack – um mostly because I forgot that Pretty in Pink was in the same pack – so I just went with the first pink I found, lol.

I kept the design simple (we didn’t have a lot of time to get it done). I popped the flower head on dimensionals. The vanilla panel is also popped up – which provides a nice little shadow (which translates into dimension).

Thanks for taking a peek!

You’re in My thoughts
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Reason to Smile, Word Play;
Colors: Pink Pirouette, Vanilla, Primrose Petals, Soft Suede;
Other: Pirouette DSP;

Simply Everything

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While I was away from home, I did have access to my mom’s stamps – and I needed a birthday card.

I pulled out the Everything Eleanor set because I loved the images. I did have to hand-cut the flower and label, but it didn’t take long.

I kept the design very simple, but I really like the colors.

Thanks for taking a peek!

happy Birthday wishes
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Petite Pairs;
Colors: White, Pool Party, Certainly Celery, Calypso Coral;
Other: nothing 🙂

FYI – Metro Doilies

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It is time for another For Your Inspiration challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> FYI35.

What a beautiful night scene! The first thing that caught my eye was the curves of the bridge. If I had a roller coaster image, I would definitely have been using it. Alas, I do not. So next, I decided to use Kristina Werner’s awesome tutorial for creating a sketch from a photo.

I took another look at the photo and in addition to the “circles” of the bridge, I saw a pennant in the points on the cathedral. And so my sketch was born.

I had a sketch, now I needed colors. I went back to the photo and found my new favorite – Summer Starfruit. But then there was this bright teal and a totally different blue in the sky – eek. But, Starfruit and Pool look awesome together, so I just stuck with Gray to balance it all out. The final color palette felt very “metropolitan” to me, hence the post title.

Now I had a sketch and colors. Up next – stamp images. Since I was using StampinUp colors, I decided to check my SU stamps first and when I came to the doily set, I felt they were perfect!

Normally I make birthday cards, but these colors weren’t what I think of as birthday colors (though now that I see the final card, I don’t see why it couldn’t be a birthday card…go figure); instead I went with a get well sentiment instead.

I used pattern paper for added texture for the Pool pennant layer.

A final touch of a few pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Debbie
Debby
Michelle
Rochelle
Rudlis
Sara
Steph
Sylvia
Vicki

I hope you join us at For Your Inspiration!

A Little About the Challenge: The For Your Inspiration challenge is posted the first and third Thursday of every month; each challenge is open for two weeks. To play, use the photo to inspire you and create a card – very simple! Make sure you tell us in your blog post how you were inspired!

get well soon
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Delicate Doilies, Delightful Dozen;
Colors: Basic Grey, Summer Starfruit, Pool Party, Vanilla;
Other: Pearls, Dimensionals;

Summer Vine

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The Paper Smooches Sparks challenge blog has a great inspiration photo for the latest challenge.

I started with a kraft card base and then sponged some blue craft ink onto the base (mimicking the inspiration piece). After that, I just used the colors from the piece.

happy birthday
Stamps: Reflections, Party Posse (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Kraft (PTI); Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue (SU);
Other: tag punch (Marvy); twine (Paper Smooches);

Blue Rose

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As usual, I’m trying to catch up on more challenges (and I’ll be gone this weekend too, so more non-stamping time, boo). So this card is for the CAS-ual Friday color challenge (cfc63).

I love these colors! When I stamped the rose, I only used the top 2 layers of the stamp so that there would be plenty of white showing through – I think it makes it look more graphic/modern.

As for the layout – I started by trimming the card base down to just 4″ wide (a trick I learned from Maile Belles). Then I embossed the scallop square – it is harder to get that straight than I thought it would be, gah! Finally the rose is mounted with dimensionals.

Thanks for taking a peek!

happy birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: The Sweet Life, Inside-Out: Birthday;
Colors: Fine Linen, White, Aqua Mist, Enchanted Evening, Simply Chartreuse, Dark Chocolate;
Other: Limitless Layers: Square;

Wet Leaves

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This is another card I created for mom’s August camp. This time my assignment was a masculine card using Gently Falling.

This time I started with a technique – wet paper watercoloring. I love this technique and use it a lot.

I also recently discovered a great color combo that uses the new StampinUp color – Summer Starfruit. When I first saw this color I was very intimidated, but now I am loving it!

I kept the sentiment/embellishments very simple because I wanted the focus on the technique background.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Gently Falling, Teeny Tiny Wishes;
Colors: Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue, Summer Starfruit, Crumb Cake;
Other: Watercolor paper, Modern Label punch, Word Window punch, Linen Thread;

Rose & Lace Wedding

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I created this card for mom’s August stamp camp. She asked me to create a wedding card. Since I recently got Stippled Blossom and love it, I just had to use it.

To get started, I stamped my rose, leaves, and sentiment. To do the rose, I used an off-stamped inking of Primrose for the first rose layer and then full-strength Raspberry for the shading layer.

When I laid the image/sentiment die cut onto the card base, I knew I wanted something down the center. After looking through my supplies, I decided to use the large lace embossing folder.

I really love the embossing detail. The way I did it was new for me. First I made a tick mark at the center on the top and bottom on the backside of the pink panel. Then I lined up the straight edge of the lace to the tick marks and embossed. Then I turned the panel around and embossed again. It didn’t really leave a line on the other embossing, but it did flatten it just a bit – so I put the panel back through the Big Shot with all tabs and it flattened it out just a bit, but evenly. Hope that all makes sense – really the texture is still very nice.

As a final touch, I then wrapped the crochet trim around the center too.

Thanks for taking a peek!

bride & groom
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Stippled Blossoms, Sweet Essentials;
Colors: Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple (ink only), Pink Pirouette (cs only), Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Basic Grey, Vanilla;
Other: Delicate Designs embossing, Labels Collection Framelit die, Crochet trim;

Boldly Back 2 School

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I was away from my stamps for two weeks (eek!). Now that I’m back, I’m trying to get back into the groove of playing the challenges – and also trying to catch up with some that I missed.

This card is for this week’s Retro Sketch (rs21).

While I was searching through my index to pick a stamp set to use, I came up with the idea to do a back to school card using Smarty Pants (by Paper Smooches). I love this set – this little dude is so fun!

Since I was using some PS stamps – I checked on the challenges I missed while I was gone and found a Cool Shades color challenge which fit perfectly!

In the color challenge graphic – I wasn’t too sure if that was a yellow or a yellow/green swatch – so I picked Stampin’Up’s new Starfruit color because I have the same problem with that!

I was looking for some “school” pattern paper when I remembered I could use Papertrey’s Guidelines paper for my card base – love the subtle grid as a background for this card!

The sentiment is a combination of sentiment and alphabet sets.

The final touch was to add the string to the tag. I had nothing that was that yellow/green color. So I took white baker’s twine and colored it with the marker – very easy!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Go Boldly
Stamps: Smarty Pants, Space Cadet, He Said She Said, Alphadot (Paper Smooches);
Colors: White, Spring Rain (PTI); Starfruit (SU);
Other: Prestwick DSP for shirt paper piecing (retired SU); markers (Copic & SU); Tag die, Guidelines paper (PTI);