A Little Birdie Told Me~ July 19, 2012

I made this card for a friend of mine who recently told me that her and her husband are expecting their first child.  I'm so excited for them both!  I hope she doesn't see this post before she receives her card in the mail!

I wish I had the Stampin' Up! stamp set Swell News, but since I don't I looked to see what else I had that might work and I think I may have pulled it off with this birdie stamp set.

I stamped the bird onto a scrap piece of designer series paper and my card sort of went from there.  Since she doesn't know if the baby is a boy or girl just yet I wanted to use blue and pink on my card.  My birdie image layer was cut using the labels framelits and my celery designer paper behind my image was scored using my simply score tool and then folded.  I used tombow multi glue to adhere my certainly celery layer onto my white background layer.

I also added the small stamped flower and I placed it in the birdie's beak.  The flower was stamped, colored, and cut out.  I wanted to mention that I have dimensionals placed underneath my white image layer.  There's also a small dimensional under the small flower.

My background is embossed using my perfect polka dots embossing folder and I left part of the bottom unembossed so that I would have a spot to stamp the rest of my sentiment.  For my ribbon treatment I added a button with some twine tied through it and using a glue gun I glued it onto my ribbon knot.

Well, that's my second card for today, thanks for taking the time to stop by.  I'm doing pretty well with my 100 cards in 100 days challenge- I'm almost half way there!

*card #44 out of 100 cards in 100 days goal

Stamps:  A Little Birdie Told Me
Card Stock:  White, Island Indigo, Pretty in Pink, Subltes Paper Stack- for certainly celery dsp
Ink:  Black Stazon
Supplies:  Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Labels Collection Framelits, Ribbon, Button, Twine, Glue Gun, Simply Scoring Tool, Dimensionals, SU Markers, Scissors, Tombow Multi Glue
Technique:  Dry Embossing, Paper Piecing

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My email address- pebbles4@ptd.net

May 25, 2012

Hi there!  My mother in law graduated from college last night and I wanted to make her a congratulations card and this is what I came up with.  I knew I wanted to use my owl punch and so I started my card by making my owl and I had this spice cake dsp in my scrap bin so that's where I began.

I first punched out the owl and his belly matches the dsp.  From there I made the wings using my scallop oval punch and cutting that punch out in 1/2 gave me both wings.  The eyes are all from the owl punch and the graduation hat I just cut by hand and then I punched a hole in the center for the brad with the linen thread tassel.  To make the diploma I simply took a small scrap piece of very vanilla paper and I rolled it up and tied it with some linen thread.

My pool party card stock was embossed with lines by using my simply score tool and I also punched the upper part of my pool party card stock using my scallop dotted punch.  My very vanilla card stock was run through my big shot machine using the polka dot embossing folder.

My sentiment is from the 2012 SAB stamp set called sprinkled expressions.  I only used a portion of the stamp so I colored it with my chocolate chip marker and then I stamped it onto a scrap piece of card stock and punched it out using my word window punch.

Well, I guess that's about it.  If you have any questions about how I made my card (in case I missed explaining something) feel free to send me an eamil.  My email address is at the end of this post.  Below I wanted to post a photo so that you could see a close up of the owl I made.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop on by!  I hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Stamps:  Sprinkled Expressions
Card Stock:  Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Pool Party, DSP Spice Cake
Ink:  Chocolate Chip- marker
Supplies:  Linen Thread, Owl Punch, 2 Step Bird Punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Simply Scoring Tool, Scallop Oval Punch, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, Brad, Hole Punch- for brad, Glue dots, Tombow Glue
Technique:  Dry Embossing, Punch Art

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My Stampin' Up! Website- http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/lalatty/

To place your Stampin' Up! order- http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/default.aspx

My email address- pebbles4@ptd.net

April 11, 2012

Hi everyone!  Today I decided I would play around with my Awash With Flowers stamp set.  This is a set that I just had to have and then it sat on my shelf.  These flowers always make such pretty cards and today I decided to give it a try. 

I made this card for this week's challenge on the Stampin' Up! only challenge blog found here.  Michelle Laycock just celebrated her 10th Anniversary as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator so this week the DT members thought it would be a good time to feature congratulations cards.  Congrats to you Michelle, what an accomplishment!

My card also fits this week's Twisted Tuesday challeng found here.  This week's challenge is to create a card using flowerrs, but the twist is that we were not allowed to use roses or rosettes.  What a fun challenge this week!  Who doesn't like flowers, right?!!

I began making my card by stamping my flowers.  I stamped them using early espresso ink and I filled in the flowers using pink pirouette and the leaves using pear pizzazz ink.  My flower panel is raised up using dimensionals.  I'm going to have to use this stamp set more often!  Did I mention that I love these flowers? LOL

My background was scored using my simply scoring tool.  I scored a diamond pattern on my background.  I know it's a little harder to see on the left side of my card, but it's there.

I used my scallop trim border punch along the bottom of my pink pirouette card stock and then in-between every other scallop I decided to add a small basic pearl.

I hope you liked the card I made today!  I'd like to take a moment to say thank you to all of my new followers, you are what makes blogging so enjoyable!  Have a great day!

Stamps:  Awash With Flowers, Curly Cute
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso, Designer Series Paper Patterns Stack - 2010 In Color
Ink:Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette, Pear Pizzazz
Supplies:  Scallop Trim Border Punch, Basic Pearls, Simply Scored Tool, Dimensionals, Stamp-a-ma-jig 
Technique: 2 Step Stampin', Dry Embossing

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My Stampin' Up! Website- http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/lalatty/

To place your Stampin' Up! order- http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/default.aspx

My email address- pebbles4@ptd.net

July 14, 2010

Hey everyone!  I'm posting a bit late tonight, but better late than never, right?!  This is the card I made for this week's sketch over at the Clean & Simple stamping blog.

I followed the sketch almost exactly, but I decided to use my larger SU square punch (which made the square a little bit smaller than in the sketch).  I thought it would be easier to try and line up the frogs the way I wanted them using my punch.  I also needed to move my sentiment down just a little bit.

My card sort of just fell together today and I had it finished rather quickly.  That's the great thing about sketch challenges, I can just stamp away!

I stamped the frogs and then punched them out.  Next I colored their eyes and mouth using my Close to Cocoa SU marker. 

I then placed the frogs on my brown card stock layer and then I started assembling my card.  At the very last minute I decided to add the fly which I stamped, cut out, and then I added a bit of glitter on the wings.

My ribbon treatment is simply three small ribbon scraps tied onto my main Close to Cocoa ribbon.  This is a great way to use up some of your ribbon scraps.

Have a great rest of the day and tomorrow I'm planning on making a card for this week's CAS-tastic challenge.  Don't forget if you haven't already done so, be sure to leave a comment on my first blog giveaway post for a chance to win the set of cards I made earlier this week.  I'll be drawing a winner on Monday July 19th.

Stamps:  Hoppy For You

Card Stock: White, Close to Cocoa, DCWV Spring Glitter Pack DP

Ink: Green Galore, Close to Cocoa, Timber Brown Stazon- for the fly

Supplies: Close to Cocoa SU Marker, Ribbon, EK Success Dotted Wave Border Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, 1 3/8" Square Punch, Scissors for cutting out fly, DD Glitter, 2 Way Glue Pen