Have Your Cake

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a Birthday card. I had fun recreating a card I saw from the Artisan Team. Guess I'm digging Peekaboo Peach right now...

• Stamps: Designer Tee
• Inks: Peekaboo Peach; Basic Gray
• Cardstock: Carried Away DSP; Peekaboo Peach; Smoky Slate; Whisper White
• Accessories: Silver Sequin Trim
• Tools: Stitched Shape Framelits

Stamp Sets to Use:

• Birthday Blooms
• Celebrate Today
• Build a Birthday
• Love and Affection
• Foxy Friends
• No Bones About It
• Watercolor Wings
• Papillon Potpurri
• Jar of Love
• Petite Petals
• Seaside Shore
• Suite Sayings
• Friendly Wishes
• Flower Shop
• Timeless Textures
• Playful Backgrounds
• Work of Art
• Blooms and Wishes
• Botanical Blooms
• Kinda Eclectic
• Labeler Alphabet
• Cookie Cutter Christmas
• Paisleys and Posies
• Endless Birthday Wishes
• Dragonfly Dreams
• Cool Treats
• Bookcase Builder
• Birdcage Builder
• Tasty Trucks
• Hey Chick
• Designer Tee
• Reverse Words
• Four You
• Four Feathers

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today’s card is my birthday card. Okay, well it's a birthday card and it's my birthday, so I guess it's my birthday card. It's a simple card featuring some of the remaining scraps from the Festive Birthday pack. I layered on some fun colors and patterns. From there, I stamped a simple sentiment and added a punched flower. Easy peasy!

• Stamps: Flower Shop
• Inks: Melon Mambo; Tempting Turquoise
• Cardstock: Festive Birthday DSP; Melon Mambo; Emerald Envy
• Accessories:
• Tools: Pansy Punch

Stamp Sets to Use:

• Birthday Blooms
• Celebrate Today
• Build a Birthday
• Love and Affection
• Foxy Friends
• No Bones About It
• Watercolor Wings
• Papillon Potpurri
• Jar of Love
• Petite Petals
• Seaside Shore
• Suite Sayings
• Friendly Wishes
• Flower Shop
• Timeless Textures
• Playful Backgrounds
• Work of Art
• Blooms and Wishes
• Botanical Blooms
• Kinda Eclectic
• Labeler Alphabet
• Cookie Cutter Christmas
• Paisleys and Posies
• Endless Birthday Wishes
• Dragonfly Dreams
• Cool Treats
• Bookcase Builder
• Birdcage Builder
• Tasty Trucks
• Hey Chick
• Designer Tee
• Reverse Words
• Four You
• Four Feathers

SSINKTC42: Understated Bloom

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the technique below.

For my card, I used the traditional way of doing stained glass cards. I have also seen others use a large cutout die (like the Rose Garden Thinlits) and replace the middle pieces with colored paper. Very cool effect, but I enjoy doing the heat embossing and vellum technique. For my card, I used the Birthday Blooms stamp set as my stained glass image. I have found that the trick to coloring is to use darker markers to show the color more. After coloring, I handcut my vellum and placed it in the corner of my card. I added a metallic doily and a sentiment.

Detailed of the flower:

• Stamps: Birthday Blooms; Dragonfly Dreams
• Inks: Perfect Plum; Elegant Eggplant; Always Artichoke; Pumpkin Pie
• Cardstock: Falling in Love DSP; Very Vanilla; Crumb Cake
• Accessories: Metallic Doily
• Tools: Gold Embossing Powder; Vellum

SSINKCS42: I Scream, You Scream

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the sketch below.

My card features items from the super fun Cool Treats suite in the Occasions Catalog. I had fun playing with the patterns from the paper pack. Because of the riot of pattern, I kept the stamping fairly simple with a big sentiment and a fun ice cream cone. It's hard to see in the photo, but the watermelon part of the ice cream has extra shine with Wink of Stella. After layering the paper, I added some fun coordinating washi tape and enamel shapes to finish out the card.

• Stamps: Cool Treats
• Inks: Watermelon Wonder; Crumb Cake; Chocolate Chip; Peekaboo Peach
• Cardstock: Tasty Treats DSP; Peekaboo Peach; Whisper White
• Accessories: Tasty Treats Washi Tape; 2015-2017 Enamel Shapes
• Tools: Frozen Treats Framelits; Stitched Shapes Framelits

Festive Dinosaur

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using your favorite animal stamp. Hands down my favorite animal stamp is the dinosaurs from No Bones About It. I love that I can layer the solid images and the skeletons. Such a cute visual! I decided to play with a simple color scheme of blue and orange with a yellow accent. I love the play of subtle patterns in the DSP. Because of the DSP, I kept my dinosaur image and sentiment simple.

• Stamps: No Bones About It
• Inks: Pumpkin Pie; Soft Sky; Tempting Turquoise
• Cardstock: Festive Birthday DSP; Soft Sky; Tempting Turquoise; Whisper White
• Accessories: Metallic Enamel Shapes
• Tools: Layering Circles Framelits; Triple Banner Punch

Festive Cupcake Truck

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card with one of our favorite Sale-a-Bration items. I knew I had to have the Tasty Trucks Stamp Set when the sale launched. Apparently, everyone loves this set. Almost all of my club ladies picked this SAB item for their January orders. I'll definitely be making more cards using this set and featuring one of them for February club. But first, let's see my first attempt!

I knew i wanted to make a birthday card featuring the watercolor pencils and some bright bold colors. I used some of the remaining scraps from the Festive Birthday DSP pack to create some fun pattern layers. From there, I focused on my main image. I stamped the truck, embellishments (cupcakes, flags), and sentiment in Basic Black. I then light colored parts of the image with the watercolor pencils. I applied some water to create a soft colored image. I finished off the card with a couple Emerald Envy enamel shapes.

• Stamps: Tasty trucks
• Inks: Basic Black
• Cardstock: Festive Birthday DSP; Emerald Envy; Pumpkin Pie; Whisper White
• Accessories: 2016-2018 In Color Enamel Shapes
• Tools: Watercolor Pencils; Aqua Painter

Throwback Thursday #1

For 2017, I'm starting a new series on the blog. Every other Thursday (or so), I'm going to feature a project using retired products. If you're like me, I hoard paper and products and end up having leftovers once the catalog retires. Not any more! I'm going to use those pieces. Today's set of cards were made while in Indiana for Christmas break. I realized that I was completely out of Birthday cards! Oh no! Never fear, I still had half a pack of the Petals and Paisleys DSP to play with. I layered on some DSP sections, added a simple sentiment, and finished off the card with some fun copper foil die cuts. 

Variations using Night of Navy and Mint Macaron

Variations using Rich Razzleberry and Sweet Sugarplum

• Stamps: Birthday Blooms
• Inks: Night of Navy; Rich Razzleberry
• Cardstock: Petals and Paisleys DSP (retired); Copper Foil; Night of Navy; Mint Macaron; Sweet Sugarplum; Rich Razzleberry
• Accessories:
• Tools: Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits; Paisley Framelits; Lots of Labels Framelits

Watercolor Birthday Blooms

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the new Watercolor Pencils. Hands down, these are my favorite new tool from the Occasions Catalog. I've already used them a ton!

For this card, I stamped the large birthday bloom (with added tall flower) and went to town coloring. But I didn't color everything in. I only colored certain areas. When the aqua painter is used, the color fills the space. In person you can see the shading more clearly. I love the look! To finish the card, I adde some coordinating cardstock and DSP strip and some pearls. And yes, that flower is fussy cut!

• Stamps: Birthday Blooms
• Inks: Basic Black
• Cardstock: Succulent Garden DSP; Rich Razzleberry; Calypso Coral; Whisper White
• Accessories: Pearls
• Tools: Watercolor Pencils; Aqua Painter

Occasions Catalog and SAB Swap Cards

I love participating in swaps when the new catalogs launch. Over the Christmas break, I was in three big swaps, ensuring lots of great cards to keep on hand for inspiration for me and my customers. Check them out!

Wanda Smith @ Wanda Creates

Michele SalchowJudy Pinner

Jeanne Moss @ Bluegrass StamperSheila Stanton @ Sheila StampsCreator unknownDarla Roberts @ Stampin' With Darla

(fellow member of the SSINK Design Team) Jenny Hall @ Jenny Stamps Up

Jen Guarino @ Faith, Grace, Stamp

(fellow member of the SSINK Design Team)

Jen Guarino @ Faith, Grace, Stamp

(fellow member of the SSINK Design Team)Jeanne Moss @ Bluegrass Stamper

Candy MichaelStasia ToddWendy Cranford @ Luvin' Stampin'Creator UnknownSheila Stanton @ Sheila StampsCatherine DaweLynda Falconer @ Crafter InspiredKathy ThistedJennifer Blomquist @ Northwest StamperLiz Mitchell @ Liz Loves 2 StampPamela Wu @ Stinky Tofu

(Pam's my upline and good friend)Carla BrantonNicole Flournoy @ Inky Fingers StampingStacey Lane @ A Work of CarteSusan Schultz

SSINKCS41: Carried Away

I ran out of time this past weekend to get a card sketch card posted for Monday's SSINK challenge. So instead of being a design team member, I'm going to participate in the challenge today. Click on the sketch to play along with us!  Here's the sketch we were given:

And here's the card I came up with! I decided to play with patterns and stamping for this card. The new SAB paper Carried Away is one of my favorites! I love the great color combinations and patterns. So I took three patterns from that pack for the circles and the banner. I then added a simple sentiment, but jazzed it up by using tone on tone stamping to create my own patterned background. Before I glued everything down, I decided the background needed a bit more. Enter the Playful Backgrounds stamp set. A few stamps of these fun circles completed my card.

• Stamps: Designer Tee (SAB); Playful Backgrounds
• Inks: Watermelon Wonder; Peekaboo Peach
• Cardstock: Carried Away DSP (SAB); Watermelon Wonder; Peekaboo Peach
• Accessories:
• Tools: Circles Framelits; Triple Banner Punch