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It's a Bee-utiful Day!

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Today’s card features one of my favorite colors (and my favorite color retiring this year) Fresh Fig. I love the deep dark purple. This color started with Fresh Fig. From there, I found some DSP that featured a darker purple and then settled on a sentiment. The bees came to me after a search for something nature related.

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  • Stamps: Love What You Do; Dragonfly Dreams

  • Inks: Fresh Fig; So Saffoon; Early Espresso

  • Cardstock: Tranquil Textures DSP; Fresh Fig; Whisper White

  • Accessories: Very Vanilla Lace Trim; Fresh Fig Ribbon (retired); Candy Dots (retired)

  • Tools: Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits

tags: Tranquil Textures DSP, Dragonfly Dreams, Love What You Do
categories: Birthday Cards
Monday 03.11.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Sunday Haul #5

I popped into Joann’s to look for a specific Happy Planner sticker book, and they didn’t have it. So of course, I browsed around the rest of the store and came out with this stack… I pulled a few papers to use for Week in the Life this year (happening in late April for my family). I wanted to coordinate with some fun colors and patterns and all of these ones really called to me. Beyond that I grabbed a alphabet stamp set on the cheap and a cute die cut pack.

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tags: Sunday Haul
categories: Craft Supplies
Sunday 03.10.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Bermuda Bay Cupcake

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Today’s card is a CASE from Amy Koenders @ Stamp with Amy K. I loved the little cupcake with the oval sentiment and fun pattern paper as a background. I pulled out my own supplies and set about recreating her card. Love the results! Very fun and bright!

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  • Stamps: Hello Cupcake; Better Together

  • Inks: Melon Mambo; Coastal Cabana; Bermuda Bay

  • Cardstock: How Sweet it Is DSP; Melon Mambo; Whisper White

  • Accessories: White ribbon (retired); Bermuda Bay Sequins (retired)

  • Tools: Stitched Shapes Framelits

tags: How Sweet It Is DSP, Hello Cupcake, Better Together
categories: Birthday Cards
Sunday 03.10.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Watercolor Butterfly

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Today’s card is my result of playing with some ink and watercolor paper. I love the big butterfly from the Beautiful Day stamp set and tried a few different ways to color it. I finally settled on using ink and a watercolor technique to fill in my butterfly. I love how messy the coloring looks. From there, I found some scrap pieces of DSP that coordinate and added some fun embellishments.

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  • Stamps: Beautiful Day

  • Inks: Bermuda Bay; Basic Black; Daffodil Delight; Pear Pizzazz

  • Cardstock: Myths and Magic DSP (retired); random yellow scrap; Whisper White

  • Accessories: Coastal Cabana / Granny Apple Green Reversible Ribbon; Bermuda Bay sequins (retired); random paper clip

  • Tools:

tags: Beautiful Day, Myths and Magic DSP
categories: Birthday Cards
Saturday 03.09.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Tea Time Birthday

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Today’s card was an attempt to use the pretty, but not quite my style Petal Promenade DSP pack. When faced with florals, I sometimes struggle to find a design that works. For this card, I started by stamping and coloring the tea pot. (Love how that one turned out!!!) From there, I stamped a flower image all over a piece of Powder Pink Cardstock before layering on a piece of DSP. A sentiment and a bit of shine finished off my card.

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  • Stamps: Beautiful Day; Tea Together

  • Inks: Rich Razzleberry; Powder Pink; Rich Razzleberry Blends; Call Me Clover Blends; Pumpkin Pie Blends; Pink Pirouette Blends (retired)

  • Cardstock: Petal Promenade DSP; Copper Foil; Rich Razzleberry; Powder Pink; Whisper White

  • Accessories:

  • Tools: Tea Time Framelits; Circle Framelits

tags: Beautiful Day, Tea Together, Petal Promenade DSP
categories: Birthday Cards
Friday 03.08.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Tropical Cupcake

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Today’s card is a fun and light birthday card. It took me a few times to get the hang of the cupcake stamp set layering, but I think this one came out nicely. I made the basic elements of my card but realized it was missing just something. Turns out I just needed to add some stamped element in the background to add the finishing touch!

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  • Stamps: Hello Cupcake; Playful Backgrounds

  • Inks: Granny Apple Green; Powder Pink

  • Cardstock: Tropical Escape DSP; Granny Apple Green; Powder Pink; Whisper White

  • Accessories:

  • Tools: Layering Circles Framelits

tags: Tropical Escape DSP, Playful Backgrounds, Hello Cupcake
categories: Birthday Cards
Thursday 03.07.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Llama Birthday

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Today’s card is quick and easy! Sometimes you just don’t have a lot of time to make a card, but you still want the design to be fun and interesting. Enter washi tape! I have a giant wire basket full of random washi tape just waiting to be used. So i dug through and pulled out this awesome llama roll to feature. From there, I just found some rolls that looked good together and started adding them to a piece of white paper. A simple sentiment and punched heart finished off my card.

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  • Stamps: Four You (retired)

  • Inks: Melon Mambo

  • Cardstock: Night of Navy; Melon Mambo; Mint Macaron; Whisper White

  • Accessories: Various washi tape

  • Tools: Sweetheart Punch (retired)

tags: Four You, Washi Tape
categories: Birthday Cards
Wednesday 03.06.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Desktop Tuesday #3

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Finishing out my February Memory Planner pages amongst random card making supplies. I still need to finish making my 30 birthday cards so there’s a lot of those supplies underneath there somewhere.

tags: Desktop
categories: Life
Tuesday 03.05.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Dragonfly Love

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Today’s card is a very special card because it’s my birthday!!! My favorite color is purple, so today’s card had to have purple featured. In looking at my stamp stash, I had to pull out the Dragonfly Dreams set and coordinating dies. Such a good choice! I took my design from an example in Stampin’ Success, the demonstrator magazine from Stampin’ Up! They always have some great designs and examples to use and this one really spoke to me. It’s from a few years back, but it was the perfect design for today!

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  • Stamps: Dragonfly Dreams

  • Inks: Blackberry Bliss; Highland Heather

  • Cardstock: Just Add Color DSP; Highland Heather; Pear Pizzazz; Whisper White

  • Accessories:

  • Tools: White Heat Embossing Powder; Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits

tags: Dragonfly Dreams, Just Add Color DSP
categories: Birthday Cards
Tuesday 03.05.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Unicorn Rainbow

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Today’s card is a fun watercolor background. Every once in a while, I love to get out a ton of ink and make some watercolor backgrounds. For this one, I created a rainbow using nine different color inks. I love how it all blends together. Once I created my background, I stamped and colored a fun colorful unicorn to add on top of a piece of ribbon and a sentiment.

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  • Stamps: Magical Day (retired)

  • Inks: Basic Black; Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride, Peekaboo Peach, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzaz, Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry, and Sweet Sugarplum Reinkers; Various Stampin’ Blends

  • Cardstock: Watercolor Paper; Basic Black; Whisper White

  • Accessories: Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon; Exopy Shapes (retired)

  • Tools: Magical Mates Framelits (retired)

tags: Magical Day, watercolor
categories: Birthday Cards
Monday 03.04.19
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 
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