Red, White & Blue Week--You're Invited

It's Party Time!!  Here is an invitation for that big block party you are planning for the 4th of July.  Or the kids Captain America birthday party.  Or the retirement celebration for a dear friend.

I love the Red and Silver Glimmer Paper on this one.  I cut two 1-1/2" x 4" rectangles from each paper.  Then cut each on diagonally in half.  I covered a piece of scrap cardstock in glue stick and put the glimmer triangles on with all the points meeting in the middle of one side.  I then trimmed the extra glimmer paper off the edges.  It is put on a Whisper White piece of cardstock and onto a Pacific Point card base.  The Stitched Satin Ribbon is wonderful.  There is a texture on one side from the stitching and the other side shines with the subtle lines.  The sentiment tag was made with the Decorative Label Punch.

I am hoping my son picks Captain America for his birthday party theme this year, so I have a reason to make more of these.

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Sprinkles of Life --6x3

I have one more Sprinkles of Life card to share with you this week.  I wanted to make a nice tall ice cream cone and figured what better way than to make a tall card.

The inspiration for this one also came from the sentiment.  The card base itself is 6x6 scored in half at 3".  I used Chocolate Chip, Whisper White (stamped with Smoky Slate), Watermelon Wonder, and Cucumber Crush (with Chocolate Chip sprinkles).  The cone is tone on tone Delightful Dijon.  I cut the cone out with scissors and the ice cream with the Tree Builder punch.  Two pieces of the Lace Trim are put together for the lower band.  You can easily step up this card further with a cherry on top (Tree Builder Punch) and a small button with twine next to sentiment.

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Cherry on Top Pinwheel Card

Can you tell how much I love the Cherry on Top color scheme by now?  They are so bright and perfect for all things birthday/celebration.

I showed you a Pinwheel card a couple weeks ago.  It was made using an 8 x 8 piece of paper.  I was curious what it would look like if I made them with the 6 x 6 pieces from the Designer Series Paper STACKS.  Of course I used a piece from the Cherry on Top DSP Stack.  I scored it with my Diagonal Scoring plate on all four sides at 2-1/4".  The mat in the middle is 3" square.  I might have been able to go a little bit larger, but had a 3" piece sitting on my work space already.  ;)
The outside and inside uses the Build a Birthday Stamp Set again.  I also used the 5th roll of Cherry on Top Designer Washi Tape (#138384).  The Watermelon Wonder bow is done with the Bow Builder Punch (#137414)

Be sure to stop by tomorrow for the Stampin' Addicts In Color Blog Hop!  I can't wait for you to see what we have all done with these fabulous additions to the Stampin' Up! Colors!

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Birthday Wishes Candles

Today I have another take on a birthday card using items from the Build a Birthday Stamp Set (#138646) and Cherry on Top Collection.

The layers of the cake can easily be turned on their side and used as candles.  You can also cut pieces from Designer Series Paper.  I chose to use the Cherry on Top Designer Washi Tape (#138384).  The great thing about the washi tape is the natural look it gives when you tear off a piece.  This works great for candles.  I also used washi tape from this set for the dots below the sentiment.  I stamped th sentiment and cut out the flames from the Build a Birthday set.  The background is embossed with the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder (#133520).

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Build a Birthday Sneak Peek

We are officially one week away from the premier of the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! Catalog.  I can't wait for you to see all of the wonderful things it contains.  As a demonstrator, I was able to pre-order several stamp sets.  The Build a Birthday Stamp Set (#138646) jumped straight at me.  It is a two-step stamping set with images to build pictures.  The most common thing to build is a cake.

I got the color combination for my card from the new Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper Stack (#138443).  The Cherry on Top DSP Stack contains several of the new 2015-1017 In Colors.  I used Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush and Bermuda Bay on the Tip Top Taupe pedastal. There are 3 paper stacks this year, sized at 6 x 6.  This makes them perfect to cut down for card fronts or smaller projects.  Don't worry Stampin' Up! still has 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper.  In fact they have 9 NEW packs in the catalog starting June 2nd.

Stamping each of the cake layers from the stamp set onto the pedestal stamp image is easy with the Photopolymer stamps.  There are several images you can put on top of the cake.  I chose the 3 flags image.  The little flowers are from the Tree Builder Punch (#138295).  I added Rhinestone Jewels (#119246) to give it a little sparkle.

TIP:  Do NOT over saturate your stamp pads when reinking them.  It may cause the ink to puddle on your stamps and fill in little details when you stamp.  (See bottom cake layer above)

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2015-2017 In Colors Comparison

My pre-order for the New 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! Catalog came a couple days ago.  I sat down this morning to play with the new In Colors for 2015-2017 and see how they compared to other SU! colors.  The New In Color is the balloon in front with the image stamped on top.  Scroll down for the names of all colors in photos.

The images, stamped in the same color as balloon, are from the Celebrate Today Stamp Set (Photopolymer #137138).  The balloons were cut out with the coordinating framelits (#137362). The sentiment and strings are stamped in Smokey Slate.  

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Happy Birthday CASE!

CASE--Copy And Share Everything.  This is a great way to make cards.  I had received a wonderful card, while swapping at convention, from Cathy Seal.  I loved her color use and design.  I do have this fascination with this years In Colors.  I changed my card to use more of the colors.  I also added some spritzer to the flowers.  You can see my card on the left and Cathy's on the right.  Both stamped sentiments are from the same stamp set.

A close up of the flower details.  

The best part of making cards is giving them away.  I made this one for my friend Rie's birthday.  Here she is celebrating at the Cheesecake Factory in Waikiki, HI.

Of course we had to have cheesecake.  I had the carrot cake cheesecake.  Yummmmmm!!

PRODUCTS USED:

Stamps: Bring on the Cake (WM #128490, CM #121958)

Colors: Crisp Cantaloupe, Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White, Black Stazon Ink #101406

Accessories:  Ovals Collection Framelits #129381, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder #117335, Coastal Cabana Ruffled Stretch Trim #130024, Sticky Strip#104294, Dimensionals #104430, Blossom Party Originals Die #115971, Bird Builder Punch #117191, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack #118309, Pearl Basic Jewels #119247

Convention Swap #2

I LOVE SWAPPING!  I participated in a few organized swaps this year.  This is my card for the Stampin' Addicts Birthday Card Swap.

I did a little twist with the focal image.  You could stamp the image on Whisper White and then punch it out with the Scallop Circle Punch.  Instead I punched through the Crisp Cantaloupe Cardstock and put the image behind the space.  All of the colors were chosen to go with the designer paper from the Birthday Basics DSP.

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Stamps: Sketched Birthday (WM #130423, CM #130426)

Colors Cardstock and Markers: Bermuda Bay, Crisp Cantaloupe, Gumball Green, Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White, Black Stazon Ink Pad

Accessories:  Birthday Basics DSP #130145, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle Punch #118874, Silver Brad, Crisp Cantaloupe Ruffle Stretch Ribbon #130021, Dimensionals #104430

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MDS Angry Birds

My son 's birthday is this weekend.  We decided to go with an Angry Birds Theme this year.  Treat sacks at our local store are $3.50 for 8 little angry bird sacks.  This does not sit well with me.  My Digital Studio to the rescue.

I created this postcard on MDS2 and will attach it to the front of a standard ole' brown lunch bag.  The grass area is done with the torn edges stamp in three layers of Gumball Green and Old Olive.  I resized and rotated a few squares to make the sling shot.  The bird itself is one of the new features that comes with MDS2.  You can now add a photo to any punch shape.  I found the face of the bird online and put it into the circle punch.  The feathers behind are the 5 petal flower punch.

Check out the curve to "Happy Birthday".  Again thanks to MDS2, you can now make your words follow along a curve or zig zag.  A few drop shadows and some cupcake top clouds....viola'.....we are done.  This took very little time to do.

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Mixed Bunch Birthday

I sat down the other day to make birthday cards for the ladies in my church group.  I didn't have much time and 95% of my stamping supplies are in huge crates heading to our new home.  I kept back the demonstrator starter kit done My Way (theme for Stampin' Up! in 2012) to use for the next two months.  Here is what I came up with.

I went with a monochromatic color scheme using soft subtles.  The above card is in Certainly Celery.  There are others below in Pretty in Pink and Marina Mist.  The Mixed Bunch Stamp Set from the Occasions Mini Catalog are perfect for simple fast cards.  They work for everything ....birthdays, sympathy, thank you, get well, even baby.  The stamp set comes with three large flowers and 3 small circle designs you can use for further embellishing your flowers or cards.  There is also a coordinating punch for all the images.

The Designer Paper is from the Paper Patterns Stacks.  You get 40 sheets of 12x12 double sided paper.  There are 4 sheets of each color in the color family.  The sentiment is from my favorite word stamp set Sincere Salutations.  It is a go to for any occasion.

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Stamps: Mixed Bunch (wm#125535, cm#125537), Sincere Salutations (#115068)

Colors: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Marina Mist, Soft Subtles Paper Patterns Stack (#117152), Basic Black Classic Ink (#101179)

Accessories:  Dimensionals (#104430), Blossom Punch (#125603)

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Mixed Bunch (wm#125535, cm#125537)

Sincere Salutations (wm#115608)

Birthday Boy

I have been busy the last week with workshops, classes and life in general.  I will post a few of the workshop cards in a few days.  For now I have a quick post of a Birthday Card I made for a special little 5 year old's party the other day.  I don't have any truck or dinosaur stamps, so I had to come up with something a little more general.  This card was quick, simple and can be done in any color combination to suit the receiver.

The little boy is into Transformers, so I tried to go with a bold color scheme to mimic the bold colored robots.  So you have your Optimus Prime (Real Red and Pacific Point) colored cupcake with your Bumblebee (Daffodil Delight) card base and a little Old Olive accent for good measure.  The cupcake panel and sentiment circle are put up on dimensionals (my must have product).

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Stamps:  Word Play (wm #120308, cm #120651), (Crazy for Cupcakes (wm #111618)

Colors: (cardstock and markers to color) Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Pacific Point, Real Red, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Basic Black Classic Ink Pad

Accessories:  Fire Rhinestone Square Brads (#109112), Real Red Satin Ribbon (#117286), Scallop Circle Punch (#119854), 1-3/4" Circle Punch (#119850), Houndstooth Embossing Folder (#123134), Big Shot (#113439), Dimensionals (#104430)

Vintage Vogue Birthday

I have been asked to make the birthday cards for the ladies in my church group this year. These ladies are older and I wanted something classy for them. I was looking for some fresh ideas when I came across this card on Laurie Zoellmer's blog. It was perfect. I changed up the colors a little and switched out the sentiment to suit my need. I also expanded the front panel to full size. I made 5 of these for the ladies with a September birthday in no time. I am also working on remembering to stamp the envelope.

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Stamps: Vintage Vouge, Sincere Salutations

Colors: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Basic Black

Accessories: Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Rhinstone Brad