A Feathery Birthday Card

After a busy, long week, I spent part of my Friday night making some cards. It took me some time to gain inspiration, but after looking through a few card challenges for this week, I was inspired to make a birthday card using a stamp set I haven't touched for a long time! 

Fab Friday has a clean and simple sketch this week, which gave me the perfect start to making my card:

And Seize the Birthday has their usual "Anything Goes" theme this week. The 'Topping' option this time was felt, but I'm pretty sure I don't own any felt... or it's buried somewhere in my crafting supplies... So I opted out on that :). 

And here's the card:

The Stampin Up stamp set I used was "Four Feathers". I loved this stamp set when I first saw it, but wasn't really sure how to incorporate it into my card designs. This sketch gave me the perfect opportunity. The large circle on the card was the perfect spot for these 3 feathers that I stamped and die-cut. The colours I used are probably my favourite colour combination lately -- Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Basic Gray, Smokey Slate, Basic Black and Whisper White. Shades of teal have always been my favourite colours! I added a small strip of black and white designer series paper which seems to pop right out of the card! A couple of the feathers and the sentiment is popped up to give the card some dimension. I've also added texture by embossing the background with "Decorative Dots". Bakers twine and small rhinestones embellish the card.

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KCRR #18 and Fab Friday #18 {A Matching Set}

Welcome to a new KCRR challenge!

The two items that were randomly chosen are:

Retired Stamp Set

Quilting Technique

 

I love using different techniques in my cards and 'quilting' is one I haven't used very often so I'm glad it was one of the chosen elements this week! I have a few retired stamp sets to choose from and decided "Upsy Daisy" would work best with this technique. I used a fun and fabulous colour combo from Fab Friday and picked an older sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and my card came together so nicely!

 

 

There are a couple different ways of doing the quilting technique. For my card, I punched out 1-1/4" squares from designer paper, glued them on white cardstock, put it through the big shot with the Top Note die and finally embossed it with the Square Lattice embossing folder. So easy, and the result is beautiful! I loved this colour combo so much, I decided to make a matching set of cards:

 



 

 

Here are close-ups of the other two:







Thanks for visiting! Head on over to Karly's Creations to see how she used these two elements in her card.

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy (ret.), Tiny Tags
Paper: Soft Suede, Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, Very Vanilla, More Mustard, 2012-2014 In-Colour DSP, Print Poetry DSP
Ink: Raspberry Ripple
Tools: 1-3/4" Circle punch, Scallop Circle punch, Tag punch, Scallop Border punch
Accessories, Primrose Petals stitched satin ribbon, Pearls (Michael's)

Retro Sketches #60 and Fab Friday #16 {Sending Love & Sympathy}

I've been patiently waiting for this day to come! Today, Stampin Up demonstrators get to have an early peek at the new Stampin Up annual catalogue!!  So excited to see what Stampin Up has come up with this year! 

Today's card features a great layout based on the Retro Sketches sketch and a nice soft colour combo from Fab Friday.

I thought this colour combo would be perfect for a sympathy card. Summer Startfruit is still growing on me, but I love it with these colours! Here's how my card turned out:

 

To add some detail I embossed the piece of Crumb Cake cardstock with the square lattice pattern. The roses are sponged with Calypso Coral ink and instead of the traditional green leaves, I decided to stick with the colour combo and used Summer Starfruit instead - I like how it turned out! The Calypso Coral bakers twine is the perfect embellishment to complete the card.

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Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Love & Sympathy
Paper: Pool Party, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Summer Starfruit, In-Colour 2013-2014 DSP
Ink: Calypso Coral
Tools: Circles Nestabilities, Square Lattice embossing folder, Little Leaves sizzlit die
Accessories: Flower Trim ribbon, Calypso Coral bakers twine

Thanks a Million

Happy First Day of Spring!

It may not seem like spring has sprung, but it's good to know that we are getting that much closer! Now if only the mountains of snow in PG would start to melt... I have a feeling it may be a while before we see some green grass... Even though it feels like winter, the sun is still shining! Here's a picture I took on my way to work yesterday morning:

I realized today that one of my cards was picked as one of the top 3 for the Stampin Up Only challenge "Going Green"! How exciting! To see my original post, click here.



Now onto today's card! I played along with the Deconstructed Sketch and Fab Friday challenges. The sketch is a clean and simple one this week and the colour combo is perfect for spring.

 

 I combined these two challenges to make a thank you card. I used patterned designer paper, embossed cardstock, and ribbon as an embellishment. The sentiment is from Stampin Up's 'Word Play' stamp set. I think it's perfect for this clean and simple card and really stands out against the soft spring colours!

 

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Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Word Play
Paper: Sahara Sand, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, In-Colour 2011-2013 DSP, Subtles DSP
Ink: Staz-On Black ink
Tools: Vine Street embossing folder; Eyelet border punch
Accessories: Lucky Limeade ribbon (Sale-a-bration ret.)

Spring is in the Air...

Yesterday, I spent most of the day setting up a personal budget. It's a lot of work, but I'm hoping we can keep it up! It would definitely help us to save for our big road trip in June! I got my spreadsheet template from this website: Christian PF. They have some many useful household budget tools. I found this to be the best I've found so far!

I wanted to share with you a couple of fun adorable greeting cards I made for a customer. Her friend's twins (a boy and a girl) are turning 2 this week and she asked me to make "pirate-style" birthday cards. Here's what I came up with:

 

 

Aren't they adorable?? I just love that owl punch - so many characters can be made with it! I added stamped images from the Open Sea stamp set - perfect for a pirate card! 

So for today's card, I used the new sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the springy colour combo from Fab Friday. I am so ready for spring! Even though the first day of spring is still a month away, I know it will be here before we know it! The snow has been melting here in Prince George and the temps have been hovering around 0 degrees for quite some time. I can feel spring in the air :)

What a great sketch! And the colour combo is just perfect. These colours go so well together and are perfect for spring. This is my first time participating in the "Fab Friday" challenge. They have some great challenges and I'm looking forward to using them as inspiration in the future!

Easter is quite early this year (March 31st), so I thought I'd create a card for that special occasion. Here is my interpretation of these two challenges:

 

I created a 5"x5" square card with a matching envelope in Wild Wasabi. I like the simplicity of this sketch. It can be used in so many different ways! I added patterned paper in Perfect Plum and Baja Breeze for the background. The butterflies are the central focus of the card. I layered two butterflies and embossed the smaller one with polka dots. Rhinestones embellish it. I added a swirl in the corner and finished it off with the sentiment "Happy Easter".

 

 

Card Ingredients:

 

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Whisper White, Twitterpated DSP, Subtles Collection DSP

Ink: Elegant Eggplant

Tools: Beautiful Butterlfies die, Circles nestabilities

Accessories: Rhinestones

 

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