Birthday Remembrances

I created this one-layer card for mom’s birthday stamp-a-stack camp. All this takes is a little masking.

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Remember When
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Word Play;
Colors: Vanilla, Espresso, Pear, Rose Red;
Other: ~nothing~

Pop Up for Spring

I created this card for mom’s February camp. We like to throw in funky folds occasionally, so I decided to do a Free Standing Pop-Up card (tutorial @ SCS).

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Pop Up
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, Very Vintage wheel;
Colors: Pear, Bride, Baja, Vanilla;
Other: Vanilla Seam Binding ribbon;

Shabby Chic Mother’s Day

I created this card for mom’s next stamp camp. She wanted me to make a Mother’s Day card using Aviary.

Each (catalog) year she asks her customers what they’d like to see in the coming months. One thing on the current list is more shabby chic. This isn’t a style that either of us like doing. It has been a while since our last shabby card so I thought I’d give it a go for this card.

I used LOTS of products on this card, but it still came together pretty quickly.

I stamped the bird cage base onto the Vanilla panel first, then I embossed it (sometimes I don’t think about it in the right order, lol). Then I just layered and layered until I felt it was enough. I know I could have taken this to another level, but since this is for stamp camp, I needed it to be doable within the time constraints.

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Wonderful Mother
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Aviary, Delightful Dozen;
Colors: Crumb, Vanilla, Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso, Marina Mist;
Other: Crumb DSP, Pearls, Leaf die, 5-Petal Flower punch, Pleated Ribbon, lace, button, linen thread, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder;

Handy Man Thank You

When I saw this challenge from Play Date Cafe (pdcc123) I wasn’t too sure. But once I pulled the colors out, I fell in love.

The inspiration photo for the color challenge had me thinking ric-rac or chevrons.

I needed to make a masculine card for one of mom’s upcoming stamp camps. I was tasked to make the card using Totally Tool.

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Thanks for All You Do
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Totally Tool, Woodgrain Background;
Colors: White, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango, Certainly Celery, Black;
Other: Basic Grey & Sahara Sand markers, Tasteful Trim die;
Layout: Retro Sketch #1

St Patrick’s Day

I created this card for mom’s stamp camp a couple weeks ago. I ended up casing the design of my Christmas card (second card) because her customers loved the design and wanted a chance to make the ruffle.

To make the ruffle, punch a couple strips of cardstock using the Scallop Border punch. Run the cardstock through a crimper a lot to break up the inner fibers. Apply adhesive to the back of the circle, around the edges. Adhere the first edge of the scalloped piece and just fold and bend to fit it around the circle.

The colors are not the best in this photo. That green is Lucky Limeade!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Happy St Patrick ala carte;
Colors: Lucky Limeade, So Saffron, White;
Other: Limeade DSP, Limeade Ribbon, Scallop Border punch, Circle die;

Rainbow Critters

I created this card for one of mom’s stamp camp. She requested a kid birthday card. I chose to use Fox & Friends (such a cute little set!). I couldn’t pick which little critter to use, so I decided to use them all. I was trying to decide what color to make each animal when I realized I could make a rainbow. That always makes me happy 🙂

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happy day
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Fox & Friends, Friendly Phrases;
Colors: Daffodil Delight, Pure Poppy, Pumpkin Pie, Lucky Limeade, Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, White, Crumb Cake;
Other: Daffodil ribbon, Scallop Border punch;

Hollyhock Garden

My random file this afternoon was Spring Garden – an oldie but goodie from Stampin Up. I thought I would do a tulip row, but when I went looking for help I found a sketch at Clean & Simple Stamping (ftl180) that worked perfect for the hollyhock image.

I decided I wanted to use Wisteria (mostly because I knew I had some pattern paper in that color) and chose Limeade because they are family 🙂

This is a great layout and I’m sure I’ll use it again!

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Happy Birthday
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Spring Garden, It’s Your Birthday;
Colors: Black (VersaFine); White (PTI); Wisteria, Limeade;
Other: Wisteria ribbon, Lots of Tags die;

Kiddie Cards

A few months ago I needed a couple boy birthday cards.

The first card is pretty straight forward.

The second card I used some bits from a card that failed me months before. The little banner and the cute monster are from my scraps bin. I pulled the rest together around them.

Happy Birthday
Stamps: Free Spirit: Boy, Free Spirit Sentiments, Offbeat Backgrounds (WMS);
Ink: Going Grey (SU); Black & Red markers (SU);
Paper: White, Kraft (PTI); Pacific Point? (SU);
Other: Limitless Layers Circle (PTI);
HB 2 U
Stamps: Make a Monster (SU); Tiny Treats: Valentine, Birthday Bash Seniments (PTI);
Colors: Real Red, Pacific Point (SU); White & Black (PTI); Celery or Olive? (SU);
Other: Twine, Black ribbon (SU); star die (?);

Coral Doilies

I haven’t played the ColourQ challenge in forever so when I needed a card but wasn’t sure where to start, I fired up their blog to see what was what. I loved the latest challenge (#127) of chocolate, coral, bride, and celery.

I recently received the StampinUp Doily set and it called my name today! The scallops along the bottom are done using the new StampinUp edge dies – love the scalloped scallops!!

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Happy Day
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Delicate Doilies, Friendly Phrases;
Colors: Chocolate Chip, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery, Vanilla;
Other: Lots of Tags sizzlet, Lace, Adorning Accent Edgelets die;

Razzleberry Rose

This week’s Clean & Simple challenge at SCS was a color challenge: Rich Razzleberry and White. Razzleberry is one of my favorite colors!

I had tons of ideas, but settled on using this rose from an old set – Abundant Joy. I stamped the rose full strength, but the sentiment is off-stamped, though the ink is quite rich and so it is hard to see any difference.

I also added an embossed square around the image. I did the embossing from the back so that the embossing is out, not in (debossed).

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Birthday Wishes
All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Abundant Joy, Watercolor Wishes (sentiment);
Colors: White, Rich Razzleberry;
Other: Sq die (Spellbinders);