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Rainbow Birthday

Today I'm featuring not one card, but an entire set of 12 cards! I saw a similar card idea on Pinterest and knew I wanted to recreate it using all 12 Stampin' Blends colors and a ton of scrap DSP pieces. I tried to use only scrap pieces of DSP from my giant scrap box. I love how this design makes great use of scraps. After stamping and coloring, I added the stamped image to my DSP with glue but also added a strip of decorative washi tape. These cards were so much fun to put together. I loved finding paper, color, and washi tape combos in my stash. P.S. This card is being featured at my Quick and Easy class. Participants can choose which color they want. 

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Details of all 12 cards

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  • Stamps: Happy Birthday to You
  • Inks: Basic Black; Stampin' Blends
  • Cardstock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Rich Razzleberry, Cherry Cobbler, Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Kraft, Powder Pink, Pool Party, lots of scrap DSP
  • Accessories: random washi tape
  • Tools: Softly Falling Embossing Folder
tags: Softly Falling Emboss, Happy Birthday to You, Washi Tape
categories: Birthday Cards
Wednesday 04.04.18
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

April Crafting Goals

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A recap of last month’s goals:

  • Finish April - July PL Family pages -- Success! I snuck June and July in on the 31st, but I did get them done! 
  • Order Spring Bingo supplies and prizes -- Success!! Now to organize all my prizes and finish putting together the supply bags.
  • Cardstock Inventory for April -- Success! Inventory has been done. My list of cardstock to buy has been created. Now to order it.
  • February MP Pages -- Success! I finally found a bit of time to get this one done.
  • Work on April-May Class Projects -- Success! I have Coloring Class, Quick and Easy Cards, and DSP Part 2 kits assembled and ready for class. I'm taking a look at what to do for May (thinking. maybe a clearance card kits class, card buffet, and maybe sneak peek class).
  • Pull (and send) March and April cards -- Success! I've sent all of March's cards and have pulled all of April's cards. I just need to buy some stamps so I can send them out this month.

April Goals:

  • Decide on (and prep) May's Class topics -- I have April's classes all set, so time to think about May's classes. May is a weird month as it's the last month in the annual catalog, but it's preorder month for demos. Depending on the week, I might have to new products, but I don't want to rely on getting new stuff. 
  • Finish September - November PL Family pages -- Need to continue knocking out the months and finish my 2017 album. Then I can hopefully get caught up on the 2018 album and work backwards for Arthur and Quentin's 2017 albums.
  • Decide on my preorder strategy for May -- Related to my first goal. I want to be strategic about what I purchase during preorder. 
  • March MP Pages -- I need to stay on top of this ongoing goal.
  • Craft destash -- I'm planning on having everything ready to go on Spring Bingo day for a 50% off sale that day only. Anything left over is going to be posted on my FB group.
categories: Goal Posts
Tuesday 04.03.18
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Powder and Gray

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

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I decided to use a very simple color palette for my card. I pulled three different patterns of Powder Pink DSP from the Fresh Florals stack and played around with layering them. I realized that I didn't want to use one of the patterns to stamp on, so I made my own! I stamped the single flower image from Birthday Blooms (one of my MVP stamp sets), die cut it, and stamped on a sentiment from a different stamp set (Sharing Sweet Thought). For embellishment, I simply added a bitty bow.

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  • Stamps: Sharing Sweet Thoughts; Birthday Blooms
  • Inks: Basic Gray
  • Cardstock: Fresh Florals DSP; Smoky Slate
  • Accessories: Itty Bitty Bows
  • Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits
tags: Sharing Sweet Thoughts, 2017-2019 In Color Bitty Bows, Fresh Florals DSP, Birthday Blooms
categories: Misc- Cards
Monday 04.02.18
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
Comments: 1
 

30 Days of Lists: Days 22-30

I've really enjoyed participating in 30 Days of Lists on and off for the past few years. For 2018, the creators offered a season pass getting me all three months of lists (March, September, and December) for a bit of a discount. I jumped at the chance and sign-up. For March's lists, I decided to use the 6x8 PL page protectors, the Dear Lizzy Polka Dot Party mini kit, and various stickers and embellishments. My plan is to use the same 6x8 album (a Snap Simple Stories album) to house all three months of 30 Days of Lists, my Week in the Life pages (documenting this week), and possibly December Daily. Check out my days #1-10 here, days #11-21 here. Now are my Days #22-30:

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tags: 30 Days of Lists
categories: Other Crafts
Sunday 04.01.18
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 
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