You're so Tweet!

My youngest son (21 months) sees a bird lately and signs "bird" and repeatedly says "tweet, tweet" so he just LOOOOVED this card I made when he discovered it on my craft desk!


I love this little card for all the tiny details. The card base is Whisper White cut to 4.5 squared. A Chocolate Chip Scallop Square cut out with my Big Shot was added and my White Gel Pen added some faux stitching. The Old Olive cardstock was cut to 4" square and run through my Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder (my favorite!) My image is was stamped in Jet Black Stazon and colored with my Aquapainter and ink pads.

What do you think? Does it make you want to say "tweet!" too?!

Yet another Birthday card!

I'm on a roll this week, here is yet another birthday card I created, this one for my cousin who will be turning 10 soon.

My card base is Crushed Curry scored along the top. My little robot is stamped in Stazon Jet Black on Whisper White and colored with my Aquapainter and ink pads. This was then mounted on Dusty Durango and adhered to Bordering blue I ran through my Big Shot with the Texturz Backgrounds 1 large dot plate and mounted on Old Olive. My chipboard numbers were colored with Old Olive Craft Ink and then stamped with the tree design from Trendy Trees. Some little snippets of Dusty Durango Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon finish it off!

Clean and Simple Birthday

How's this for a Clean and Simple Birthday card? Thisi s another card for this week's Late Night Stamper's Birthday Card Challenge. A few simple score lines and the fabulous Happy Moments Stamp set and you're good to go! A little watercoloring makes it extra special!


Now, while I love massively layered cards I find myself leaning more and more lately towards these one layer cards....(I'm still working on my Artisan Award entries which are very detailed so I find myself goin gmore simple for everything else!) These cards are great though...it would be so simple to stamp a set of them and they'd make a great gift!

Divine Inspiration!

Doesn't this cake look divine?? It's the inspiration for this week's Late Night Stamper's Inspiration Challenge!

Here is my Design Team Entry inspired by this yummy cake:




I used the colors in the card to inspire my birthday card (made for my Grandmother's upcoming 80th birthday). I used So Saffron, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, and Orchid Opulence. But wait, I said it was for my Grandma, right? Well you know it had to be extra special then:







What do you think???? I love the way it turned out!

Mojo Sketch Challenge

I made this card using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.


I was a little nervous with my colors at first because I've been in straight Christmas mode for so long now that it was hard to break out of the red/green thing, I did purple and green instead!



In the end I love the way it turned out, perfect for one of the five gazillion birthdays I have coming up in the next month!

To make this card I used a standard 4.25 by 5.5 Whisper White card base. On this I layers a 4 by 5.25" Rich Razzleberry layer, a 3.75 by 5" layer of Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper, then one rectangle of Whisper White matted on Rich Razzleberry and one of Old Olive Textured Cardstock on Rich Razzleberry. My 1 3/8"Circle PUnch clipped my Old Olive Cardstock to make room for my silver Mini Library Clip and also punched out the cute cake image from the Voila Stamp Set (watercolored with my Blender Pen and Orchid Opulence Classic Stampin' Pad) The cake was matted on a Scallop Circle punched from Orchid Opulence. The card was finished off with a sentiment from Happy Everything stamped in Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive.

I hope you like today's card! I'll be working on a Free Tutorial for yesterday's Top Note Box so check back soon!

Pretty Purple Birthday!

One of my best friends has a birthday coming up and I sat down to make her the perfect feminine birthday card. I wanted something with the clean and simple look but with a little "bling" too! Here's what I came up with:

I truly love the look of this card. I love purple anyways, but the combination of Perfect Plum, Lavender Lace, and the Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper is just perfect!

Here's what I used:

Stamps
Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink
Rich Razzleberry

Paper
Perfect Plum
Lavendar Lace
Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper
Whisper White

Etc
Stampin' Up! Top Note Die
Clear Rhinstone Brads
Elegant Eggplant Ribbon

Don't forget to check out this week's Deals of the Week, they are great ones!

New Big Shot Specials of the Week!

Its that time again-time for a new Stampin' Up! Deal of the Week! This week's deals have a Big Shot theme, with awesome savings on the Perfect Settings Bigz XL die for $25.99 (normally $42.95); the Pop Up Three Tier Cake for $25.49 (normally $39.95); and the Flower Burst Embosslit for $5.99 (normally $11.95!)

To celebrate these awesome deals I broke out my Pop Up cake die last night and made a special someone a birthday card.

 

When I chose my colors for this card I was thinking back to Saturday at the Wichita Regional Conference and our session on Color Theory. I remember taking notes about how a monochromatic theme lends a classy, elegant look and I really think that I achieved that with the combination of Rich Razzleberry, Perfect Plum, and Orchid Opulence. I love the textured cardstock on the card front, its perfect to add interest without making the card "busy."

 

On the inside up pops my cake in Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper! In case you were wondering exactly how it folds I took a picture of it partially open as well:

 

Don't miss out on the awesome Deals of the Week-they are only good through October 19th at 9:50 am (MT)!

Bold and Bright

Many times, while looking for inspiration I browse online galleries to look at the work of others. I came across this card, which I thought was adorable and used as inspiration for today's card.

 

I rarely use my Bold Brights color family but I love the bright, cheerful look of this card! I started with a Whisper White card base, topped with Pixie Pink and then another layer of Whisper White. My image from Its a Stretch was stamped in Basic Black on Whisper White and colored using a blender pen and my ink pads. (See my tutorial here.)

I ran some scraps of Pixie Pink, Only Orange, and Yoyo Yellow through my Big Shot with the Small Dots Texturz Plate from Backgrounds 1. I then punched our circle with my 1 3/8" and 1/2" circle punches and glued them to my Whisper White to create a fun pattern. (I tried my best to show the texture of the circles but had difficulty getting it to show up in the pictures, sorry!)

 

Super cute, right?

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