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I needed a few quick birthday cards tonight ... so I combined this week's Freshly Made Sketch with some Project Life Cards.
I inked my Fab Four Stamp from Viva Las Vegastamps in Versafine Clair Morning Mist & paired it with a vintage Stampin' Up Sentiment.
It's also Anything Goes at Seize the Birthday.
Now to go put this one in the mail.
I am loving these coordinating Truly Taylored papers & stamps from Stampin' Up for guy cards.
The layout is this week's Paper Players Sketch.
When I saw the stacks of green containers at The Card Concept, it made me want to make my own stack of green papers.
I punched a collection of papers from Stampin' Up's True Gentlemen Collection using the Tailored Tag Punch.
I stamped two sentiments in green from the coordinating Truly Tailored stamp set.
For the Creatalicious Challenge Anything Goes with a Birthday theme, I made a horizontal variation of the same design.
This week's TGIF Challenge features three of my favorite Stampin' Up Colors, so I had to join the fun.
I broke out some new Stampin' Up sentiments from Birthday Wit & Picture Perfect Birthday.
My background is embossed and I added Gold Glitter Flakes for my confetti.
For our first card-making prompt at Jingle Belles, we're breaking-out the gifts Santa brought us.
I have had this Simon Says Stamp Ring Wreath Die on my wish list for quite some time ... and I was thrilled with out my first card using it turned out.
I started by die cutting my wreath from black cardstock for the frame.
Next, I die cut the wreath using two different shades of teal glitter paper and a sheet of silver glitter paper (actually I used scraps of glitter paper and cut out multiple partial wreaths ... since a lot of the circles are the same size, this works well). It was so relaxing to fill in all of the circles.
I stamped Joy from Simon Says Stamp Big Words - Encouraging Words (using my MISTI made it fool proof even after I had adhered the wreath to my cardstock). I finished with a black cardstock bow punched with the Stampin' Up Bow Builder. I just love the mid-century modern feel of the glittery bauble wreath.
I'm also joining the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.
When I saw the fun retro colors in the Wreath Inspiration Photo at The Card Concept, I knew the Daily Flash Eggnog Collection from October Afternoon would be perfect (and have long been hoarded in my stash).
I started by cutting a wreath shape from pink cardstock. Next I began decorating my wreath using Pillow Puff Stickers & Pop Drops from the Egg Nog Collection, as well as Bling and Enamel Dots from Eyelet Outlet.
I used Foam Tape to attach my wreath to a Stampin' Up wood textures designer paper panel reminiscent of the inspiration picture and then added a pillow puff sticker sentiment to the middle of the wreath instead of the house ornament in the picture.
With all of that fun bling, this card will have to find it's way to someone on my Christmas Card list who is "bling-worthy" (which means they appreciate the hoarding of bling and what it means when you share this much with someone).
I'm not usually one for card kits (because I don't follow instructions well), but when the kit contains fabulous elements, you don't necessarily need to follow instructions to get beautiful results.
These cards are from the Soft Sayings Card Kit from Stampin' Up. I adore the color combinations and the bits of golden glitter.
The green is Stampin' Up Emerald Envy, one of my new favorites.
The flowers are so delicate and beautiful.
I just looked at how many Falliday Challenges I have yet to complete ... and how much time I have yet ... and it's going to take a valiant effort to make it. It is unlikely, but I will go down trying.
Tonight I made a card for the We Wish You a Snarky Christmas Challenge. Strangely enough, while I have a fair number of snarky stamps in my stash (okay, probably more than a fair number) very few of them are Christmas (must correct that problem).
I went with this sentiment from CatsLife Press, which is more of a dry snark in my opinion.
I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch for my layout.
It's also Anything Goes at The House that Stamps Built.
I'm still trying to get a few more Falliday Fest Challenges done before the end-of-month deadline. This one was to make a card inspired by this movie poster using those colors.
I started with the idea of a black cat and shining peachy moon.
I sponged my orange paper with pink & peach inks to tone down the color. I couldn't resist the foam top hat for my kitty (because the creature in the poster looks like he would be wearing one). The layout is this week's Global Designer Project Sketch.
It's Falliday Fest at SplitcoastStampers, so I've been trying all sorts of new techniques. First up is called the Dendritic Technique. I applied Teal & Gold Metallic Acrylic Paint to two transparencies and then smooshed them together. I pulled the transparencies apart, and then I applied the paint to white cardstock (and will be saving the cool inky transparencies for future cards).
I framed my painted paper with gold glitter paper using a sketch from a new-to-me Challenge Blog, Paper Craft Crew Challenges.
I added some Eastern Gold Vinyl Stampin' Up Stickers and gold adhesive rivets together with a teal stamped sentiment from Stampin' Up Background Bits.
The next challenge was to make a card with leftovers on your studio table. When I tried the Alcohol Ink Bauble technique, I had several pieces of Alcohol Yupo paper leftover, so I die cut one of the pieces with a Die-Versions Happy Birthday Solo Die Cut on my table.
I added a sentiment from one of the many new stamp sets sitting on my table (yes, I've been shopping a lot lately) ... Technique Tuesday Sassy Birthday.
