TBT with a Fun Fold

Today's throw back card uses retired colors along with a retired die cut and the retired Circle Circus stamp set. This is a CASE of Jane Knudsen. I pretty much took her fold directions and created my own card. The Basic Birthday Decorative Strip was used in the Big Shot to cut out the letters. I cut it 4 times to get the different colors for the inside of the card and then cut the Happy apart and every two letters of Birthday apart. I'm always looking for ways to use this die as the cut strip is almost 12 inches long. I really like the way the card turned out. I used Midnight Muse and Encore Silver pads to ink the front. The rhinestones on the front are smaller than the current ones in the catalog. These came from a previous SU! product for decorating eggs. (I've been digging in my stash and straightening up my studio again... seems like it needs a good straightening every couple weeks.
The bottom photo shows how simple the fold is.
Start with a 5-1/2 X 11 inch piece of card stock.
Cut 5/8" off one short side
Score at 4-1/4, 5-1/4, 6-1/4 inches.
Flip over and score at 4-3/4 and 5-3/4 inches.
Fold back and forth in zig zag fashion to get fold as shown in photo above.
Decorate front and inside of card.

Punched Circles

This card is a CASE of Kelly Rasmussen on Pinterest. The hardest part of making this card was creating the template for punching the 3/4" circles. Once I had that created the rest of the card went together quickly using the little star punch and some scraps of Sweet Taffy DSP. The greeting is from the retired On Your Birthday stamp set. After I had this card done I felt like it could use a little something more. So I grabbed my Essentials paper piercing pack and made this stepped up card.

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 Spots!

This week I'm seeing spots! Today's card uses two stamp sets. Celebrate Today from the Occasions catalog for the Celebrate and the dotted background and Big News for the candle.  

CASE: Jill Hilliard

Seeing Stars - Day 5

Two cards today made with the Work of Art stamp set. The top card using one of the brush stroke stamps. Start with your lightest color first and then increase in intensity and you won't have to scrub your stamp between. Add a sentiment. I used Word Play stamp set, then some stars punched from silver glimmer paper and some rhinestones. I wasn't going to use the rhinestones until I had a tiny smudge of ink on the card... so had to think of a way to cover that up. Happy Accident!

The bottom card uses a piece of the Sweet Taffy DSP. That gave me the jumping off point for my colors. The sentiment is from the Pictogram Punches stamp set.  The larger stars were cut using my Stars framelits and the smaller star in the sentiment was punched using the star in the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack. 

CASE:  Laurie Zoellmer

TBT is Seeing Stars - Day 4

For TBT I've used one of the first stamp sets I purchased, Starring You. I've used the retired Gumball Green ink pad and three patterns from the retired Birthday Basics DSP along with retired Summer Starfruit Ribbon and card stock for the star. All those pieces are layered on a piece of retired Raspberry Ripple card stock and attached to the Very Vanilla card base.

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.