Simple Birthday Card

I believe this is the easiest card I have ever made. It turned out look pretty elegant too! It is a one layer card, except for the addition of the butterflies. This is also very fast to make.

To make this card I used all Stampin' Up! products. I used the Just Believe, Hello, Doily, and the Happiest Birthday Wishes stamp sets. For card stock I used whisper white. I used crumb cake and cajun craze classic ink. The tools I used was a Big Shot, color spritzer, and beautiful wings embosslit die. I also added some basic pearl jewels.

This is so simple you should give it a try yourself. Thanks for looking and feel free to leave a comment.

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Happy Dirt Day Blake!!

Today is a very special day for a very special little boy. It is my grandson's 2nd birthday! Can you tell by what is on the card what he likes to pay with? He loves trucks and cars. He likes to line them up in a row (like a train) and by size too! His birthday party was Sunday. My daughter said he kept saying, "Wow!" Yesterday morning when he got up he was still saying, "Wow!" Yep, so cute.
On to the card. I made this card using the Stampin' Up! stamp set "I Dig You." I thought this was the best stamp set to use for Blake. For card stock I used naturals white and crumb cake. I used early espresso, daffodil delight, bashful blue classic ink, and black staz on ink. For tools I used a stampin' sponge and the color spritzer tool. This card was a lot of fun to make. It has quite a few layers. I cut out each of the trucks and tractors to try and make this card look as realistic as possible. It was lots of fun to make, especially since it was for someone very special to me.

Thanks so much for visiting my little section on this wide world of blogging. I would love to know what you think. Please leave a comment.

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Baby Pillow Boxes

When I placed my last Stampin' Up! order I bought some things that could be used for favors. I have kind of wanted the pillow box die, but wasn't sure about it because of thinking it might be too little. It turns out that the size is great to put some little candies or mints in it.
I bought the baby bundle stamp set and wanted to implement it into these pillow boxes to see what they would look like for a favor for a baby shower.

Stampin' Up! items used for the baby girl favor:
Pillow box bigz die, Big Shot, Beautiful butterflies bigz die, Perfect polka dots textured impressions embossing folder, Dotted scallop ribbon punch, Jewelry tag punch, Baby bundle stamp set, whisper white, pink pirouette, and pretty in pink card stock. The iridescent ribbon is retired and I can't remember the proper name of it.

Stampin' Up! items used for the baby boy favor:
Pillow box die, Big Shot, Beautiful butterflies bigz die, Stripes textured impressions embossing folder, Dotted scallop ribbon punch, Jewelry tag punch, Baby bundle stamp set, whisper white, bashful blue, and marina mist card stock. Once again, the iridescent ribbon is retired and I can't remember the proper name of it.

When stamping and using your tools the ideas you can come up with and make are endless!!
Thanks for stopping by. I pray I have inspired you to create or try something new too.

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Blossom Box

Since the flooding in our basement, I decided to move all of my Stampin' Up! stuff upstairs temporarily. I did end up leaving my stamp sets downstairs. They are in a spot where I can get to them easily.
I had a chance to play with the new Blossom Box Die. A lot of people have been having problems making this because of all of the folds. The only problem I had was that the score marks were not as deep as they should have been. I had a hard time seeing where some of them were. I was able to get this done on my first attempt though. It is such a pretty box.

I wanted to let you see this box in a few different ways. The one above has the top pushed down in, which is the most secure way to use this box.

The picture above has what it looks like embellished. I used the 5 petal punch, boho blossoms punch, the largest scallop punch, and lastly the large flower punch. The last 2 I am not sure are named correctly. Like I said, my stamping stuff is upstairs and my computer I am working on is in the basement.
This last picture shows you what the blossom box looks like popped up and the embellishment on the side. In case you are wondering, I used the Beyond The Garden DSP to create this box. I love how it turned out. It did take me a while to make, but it was my first one. I bet the more you make the faster you would get.
I am so glad I bought this die. I love it! Tell me what you think by leaving a comment.

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Basement Flooding

I just wanted to let everyone know that it may be a little while before I can post something new. Our basement flooded on the 19th. My stamping stuff is fine. I did have to throw away some card stock that got wet, but for the most part everything is good.



I just wanted to let everyone know that it may be a little while before I can post something new. Our basement flooded on the 19th. My stamping stuff is fine. I did have to throw away some card stock that got wet, but for the most part everything is good.

The main reason for not posting is because of not being able to spend time stamping. We are having to go through things that were in boxes and on the floor and throw things out. We are having people come in to assess the damage to our basement. We have been told the carpet has to go. That is fine with me. I can hardly stand being down here because of the mildew smell. It is overwhelming!!! The carpet is still wet.


I will try to make some things because I am supposed to have a class soon. It may have to be postponed though. I am not sure how things are going to go.

I pray you will continue to stop by my blog. I will post again as soon as I can.

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Watercolor with Fabulous Florets 4

This is the last card in my watercolor fabulous florets class. I think this one is probably my favorite. I just love the look that the "en francais" stamp gives. To me it gives a card a certain elegance about it. It may be my opinion only on it though.

For this card I used all Stampin' Up! products, as usual. I used the stamp sets fabulous florets, en francais and word play. The card stock colors used are melon mambo, whisper white, and watercolor paper. Tools used are aqua painters along with the classic stamp pads.
It is fun working with the water color technique. This one is probably one of the messier ways to do it, but not very messy at all really.
Thanks for stopping by and visiting my blog. Please leave a comment and in that comment tell me what is your favorite type of water coloring technique. I would also love to know out of the 4 cards which one was your favorite.

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Watercolor with Fabulous Florets 3

This is the third card in the Watercolor Fabulous Florets class. One more to go. It took me some time to make this card. I kept moving things around and trying them in different spots until I finally decided I liked it this way the best.

The difference I used for water coloring on this card was that I used watercolor pencils and blender pens. My last card I am going to use the aqua painters. There are so many different ways you can watercolor. Some of them are less messy than others. Guess which type of like? If you said less messy, that would be me. I really have a hard time using glitter and embossing powders because of the mess. I still need to do it though. I have to think about my customers and not myself all of the time.
I used the same card stock colors and designer series paper in this card that I used for the other 2 cards in the "Fabulous Florets" watercolor class. I also used the flower garden embossing folder for the first time on this card. As always, everything I used to make this card is by Stampin' Up!
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