Sassy Birthday

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Today I have another project for my upcoming Card Buffet...this time it is a simple birthday card for the women in your life...

Feminine Birthday card featuring the Sassy Salutations and Betsy's Blossoms stamp sets.

This is another one you can throw together in no time!  Here are some tips for you:

• The background is embossed using the (retired) Pretty Print TIEF (but just about any TIEF would do!)
• The DSP is leftover from the Sweet Sorbet Sale-a-bration DSP pack.
• The flower is from the Betsy's Blossoms set, is stamped in Pool Party in and then die cut using the smallest of the Starburst Framelits.
• The sparkly little flowers are punched with the Itty Bitty Punch pack.  The centres are some long-retired black rhinestones, but you can get the same look by colouring regular rhinestones with a black sharpie!

 On the inside I used some of the same DSP and a black card stock mat to echo what I had done on the front.  The inside sentiment is from the Another Great Year set.

The cool thing about this design is that you can easily switch up the DSP and the coordinating card base to use up those pesky scraps you have laying around!  Gotta love it!

Paper-pieced Birthday

Happy Monday!  I hope you had a great weekend.  Mine was good...lots of stamping time for me...yippee!  I have lots of new projects to show you this week, starting with this one that I made using the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.  Check out this week's sketch:

...and here is my take on it:

Birthday card for FMS125 featuring the Another Great Year Stamp set and Sweet Sorbet DSP.

Now, I didn't do anything dramatic with this sketch.  In fact, when I first saw it this card immediately came to mind!  That doesn't happen very often...usually there is a whole lot of trial and error involved.  To get the coloured banners, I paper-pieced them by stamping the image a second time on some Sweet Sorbet DSP, fussy cutting them and then adhering them to the stamped image.

I did the same thing with the icing on the little cupcake, as well as the banner on the inside of the card.

I also stamped the sentiment from the Another Great Year set  and coloured the candles using my Pool Party, Pistachio Pudding, Summer Starfruit and Crisp Cantaloupe markers.
There really is nothing like a sketch to get your creative juices flowing!  I really needed a little kick-start and this was the perfect way to get it!  Give it a go...you'll be amazed at what you'll come up with.  Have a great week!

Ready for Spring

I don't know about you, but I am so over winter.  Spring can, well...spring any time now!  I'm ready to say good-bye to the mountains of white all around me and hello to green grass and colourful blooms.  Today's project is perfect to get you thinking of warmer temperatures and blossoming gardens.  Check it out...

Birthday card featuring the Bright Blossoms stamp set with sentiment from Sassy Salutations.

Can't get much more spring-like than that, can you?  I love how happy and cheerful this card is...exactly what I need on a gloomy February Tuesday.

It is really quick and easy to create.  The colours I used were Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Gumball Green and Strawberry Slush.  All of the floral stamps are from the Bright Blossoms stamp set, with the exception of the Daffodil Delight flowers, which are from the Banner Blast SAB stamp set.
The sentiment is stamped in Gumball Green using the Sassy Salutations stamp set.  I added a little softness with some Stretch Ruffle Trim in Coastal Cabana and some bling with some scattered rhinestones.

Inside view with sentiment from the Another Great Year stamp set.

The inside features more of the floral images from the front and the sentiment from the Another Great Year stamp set, stamped in Gumball Green.

One of my long-time customers chose to feature this project on her blog.  You can view it here, along with the story of how we came to meet.  It is an interesting one!   In the meantime, have a spring-like Tuesday, everyone!

Another Sale-a-bration Sneak Peek

Today I have one of the Make-n-Take projects I did with my team at our monthly meeting this week.  It features lots of new product from the upcoming Sale-a-bration brochure.

Birthday card featuring the Banner Blast SAB stamp set with sentiment from Sassy Salutations.

Isn't that fun?  Here's a list of the new Sale-a-bration products I used:

• Sweet Sorbet DSP
• Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack
• Banner Blast Stamp Set
• Banner punch
• Decorative Dots TIEF

I love the Banner Blast stamp set and matching punch!  It is so cute!!  On this card I used both stamped banners and some punched from the the Sweet Sorbet DSP...I like the way they work so well together.  Another new product I love the the twine from the Sweet Sorbet Accessory pack.  It is such a nice weight...not as visually heavy as ribbon, but with more presence than baker's twine.

Inside view with sentiment from Another Great Year.

On the inside of the card I stamped a few more banners and added a greeting from the Another Great Year set, which is in the new Occasions Catalogue.  As far as I'm concerned, one can never have too many birthday-themed greetings...I seem to make far more birthday cards than anything else!