Marquee Messages with DSP

Today's card also requires stamping the marquee three times and fussy cutting the arrow and banner. I used a marker to color the messages, side stripes and the stars on the banner. I saw a very similar card on Pinterest and loved the color combo of Real Red, Basic Black and Pool Party.

Sprinkles of Life

I just got the Sprinkles of Life stamp set and Tree Builder Punch with my recent Stampin' Up! order. I am so glad I finally decided to order it. I've had such fun creating with these coordinating projects. This card went together rather easily. The front panel is cut short and the biggest challenge for me was not putting too much adhesive on the layers of ice cream so that they wouldn't stick to the inside of the card. The top scoop is ice cream was made by stamping on some retired birthday bash confetti Designer Series Paper. And I used the Cupcake Builder Punch to punch out a cherry to top off the cone.

Cotton Paper Assortment

For this card I used Stampin' Up!'s Cotton Paper Assortment to make the flower. You can find instructions for making it in a SU! YouTube video. It is really quick and easy to make. I used a smaller flower framelit for my flower so it would fit on a corner of my card. Of course, this is not a card you are going to want to put in an envelope and mail. You'll want to hand deliver this card or enclose in a gift package or bag. Another thing I love about this card... The Cucumber  Crush tag was laying on my desk from a previous projecct, as was the small scrap of Designer Series Paper and the Crushed Curry ribbon. It just sort of fell together!

Here's a close up of the flower.

Essentially you cut the flower shapes and line them up on top of each other sort of cattywampus and then staple in center. Starting with top layer (center of flower) scrunch the paper. Repeat with following layers. As I said there is a SU! You Tube video you can watch. 

Glimmer Paper

This card uses some Silver Glimmer Paper from Stampin' Up! I used the Hexagon punch to punch the one hexagon of Glimmer Paper and the 4 hexagons of Designer Series Paper. I added a Pink Pirouette stamped flower and some candy dots as embellishments.

Paper Pumpkin Balloons

I paired the Calypso Coral balloon from the kit with a round balloon cut using my Balloon Framelits to make this quick and simple card. The round balloon is cut from another piece of the cut up bag. I used Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight card stock, Island Indigo baker's twine and some candy dots from my own supplies. I made two cards like this... that brings the total to 12. And there are more to come!

Amazing Birthday

I was looking for some new birthday images and Amazing Birthday caught my eye. This is my first card using the set.

Hearts a Flutter

Hearts a Flutter stamp set is one I thought I would use a lot and haven't. So, I've challenged myself to get it out put it to work. If you make a card like this you will want to pull out your stamp-a-ma-jig to get the banners lined up and probably also to stamp the sentiment. My sentiment comes from Delightful Dozen stamp set. The little flower was punched using the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack and topped with a candy dot.
CASE: Amy O'Neill

Gold Soiree Dots

 Today's card uses one of the special papers from the Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper. It's hard to tell in the photo but some of the dots are made with Metallic Gold Ink. I've used the Big Day and Something to Say stamp sets and a circle punch plus three little Garden Green Candy dots.

Seeing Stars - Day 3

A small strip of the Birthday Bash Designer Series Paper gives this card pizzazz. Then it's just a few punches of card stock (Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango here), stamping your sentiment (from Big News stamp set) and added a few candy dots.

TBT with Miracle of Easter

Today's throw back uses the retired Miracle of Easter stamp set. I received this set from a niece. (Thanks, again!) I love the image and the script. I stamped it on Vellum with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. After that it's just layering and a candy dots to cover up the dots of glue underneath. Simple and so pretty!

More A-B-C's

I've used the Little Letters Thinlits and my Big Shot for today's A-B-C cards. The top card was the idea I had in my head and I liked the way it turned out but I then I had the Marina Mist Blue card stock with "HAPPY" cut out and decided to design a card around it. Which is your favorite?
The DSP on the cards is from the Sweet Taffy pack. "Birthday" sentiment comes from the Celebrate Today stamp set. The tag on the top card is punched using the Ornate Tag Topper Punch.

Two cards, same layout.

This design layout is a CASE from Frenchie Stamps. The Designer Series Paper is layered on matching Pool Party card stock, which I did first before picking out my stamps. When I stamped the expressions I realized that they were going to look too small with the layered bands... so thought about what I might be able to add to make them fit. I like the way the stars and Candy Dots finished off this simple design. (Subtles 130933 and Neutrals 130934 Candy Dots used here.) The stars were punched using the star from the retired Merry Mini's Punch Pack but it is almost exactly the same size as the star in the new Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (133787). Little punches from the Punch Packs are great to have on hand for adding a little focal point. And the Candy Dots are so much easier to use when you don't need an actual brad to hold things together. The Thank You So Much expression comes from the Lots of Thanks stamp set. Mighty Kind of You is from the Yee-Haw photopolymer special stamp set (138107) being offered now. I'm having a lot of fun with that set! Yee-Haw!