Made by *B*

This is a quick card using vellum as the card base. I much prefer SU’s cardstock vellum to regular vellum as it is much sturdier and holds up better for card bases and going througha  printer.

This card uses the Stitched Exotics set again. The base is wheeled with the “It’s Beautiful” matching wheel in Soft Sky, and then the main image is the 5 pointed blossom from the set. Then I used the 5 petal punch to layer the main blossom as it fits the inside of that stamp perfectly! I added some clear chunky glitter from teh Spring Mini for some shine, and teh inside is layered black and Soft Sky to bring the colors together. Thanks for looking!

Here is another B-day Pa Looza cad. So easy!

I used the Ahoy Matey set and the base is Kraft cardstock. The pirate is stamped onto Naturals Ivory and sponged around the edges, as are the Always Artichoke pieces on the front. A little bit of hemp adds some texture to the front.

easy-peasy!

This is the “little girl” card I made for my Birthday-Pa-Looza Stamp a Stack. It uses the Enjoy Every Moment set and matching daisy jumbo wheel. Right now you can get that wheel FREE when you purchase the sey, along with 5 other set/wheel combinations!

This is a pull-out card. The 5 1/2 x 11″ base is folded in half and sealed so that only one side is open and the pink base gets pulled out for your message. The “enjoy” is stamped in Celery craft ink, and embossed in clear. I used the 3 flower punch from the Punch Box to create the matching flowers, and added some purple fine cosmo glitter to the centers to make it POP! Finally I added a piece of wide grosgrain ribbon to make it all come together as the pull-out tag.

Here is another sample using the Enjoy Every Moment set-this was inspired by Laurie Schmidlin’s card which can be seen here: http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/a-little-bit-fu.html

 We made this at my downline meeting this month. I really liked the way she used a black on black layer and loved the circles, but I wanted to make it a bit more springy. I started with a 6×6 square piece of cardstcok folded to a 3×6″ card. I layered another black piece on there and popped it up with dimensionals. The circles are 1 1/4″ punches from Apricot and Celery paper that I pieced around to make it a bit whimsical (great way to use up scraps!). I finished it off by embossing the “enjoy” and adding a touch polka dots in Apricot in the background to brighten up the main sentiment. I added a bit of wide Celery and Vanilla grosgrain ribbon to finish it off.

 I have a Stamp a Stack this Sunday so I will have a sneak peek tomorrow of one of the 5 cards we are making.

Another card we made at my downline meeting. This one uses Bold Brights and the citrus slice from Tart & Tangy which I *love*.  The enjoy Every Moment set is not one that I would have automatically picked this year, but I was lucky enough to receive it for free through Stampin’ Up!, and I find my self being able to use it easily for many projects. Plus the background pieces can be used for more sophisticated or whimsical cards/projects. One of my good friends has been scrapbooking with me lately and has gotten a lot of use oit of the sayings as well.

The base is Only Orange and the slice is stamped in Yoyo Yellow-a color I rarely use but sometimes it is just PERFECT! The “enjoy” is stamped on shimmer paper to add some summer sparkle. A little Summer Picnic paper and wide red grosgrain ribbon finish it off.

This card was made using the set Enjoy Every Moment. Right now it is on special-so if you buy it you get the mathcing daisies and dashes wheel for FREE! This was one of 3 cards we made at my downline meeting last week. It is a simple and easy card to make. I started with a 4 1/4″ square card base in Blue Bayou, and stamped the “enjoy” in Pomegranate. The scallop is 2 punches layered, and the scallop border is made using the corner rounder punch without the guide. I added a few dots of the rose red glitter that is in the Cosmo glitter pack (which I *love*) for a touch of shimmer. Pomegranate stitched ribbon completes the easy and quick card.

If you want to try this set out for yourself, you can sign up for my “Wheely Fun” stamp camp which will feature products from the set and matching wheel special. Check out my website   www.brittastamps.stampinup.net   for details!

Are you wearing green? Here is my little leprechaun enjoying her ginormous bow and green beads in honor of her Irish Roots, LOL.

This little card is a simple peek-a-boo card made with a strip of 4×12″ Banana paper scored at 4″ and 8″.

I used my circle punches and scallop punches to create “donut” windows that can be seen as the card opens. I like that the Lots of Thoughts sayings fit inside the circle punches. This was a pretty quick card to put together once I sorted out which punches to use!

Have a great day!

Last Sunday I held a Stamp Camp here and had a great time using the Embrace Life set. Each participant made 3 cards, 1 frame, 1 photo wallet, and got the Embrace Life set to use as part of the camp. It turned out GREAT (if I say so myself)!

 Here are the 3 cards. Each one was CASEd and modified from cards I saw on SCS.

The 1st one was a modification from JanTink on SCS. I loved her idea of using the bg designer paper panel as a major element. My card is a 5×10″ square and after coloring in the blossoms we used Crystal Effects to highlight them.

The next was a steal from Kharmagirl on SCS. I loved her idea of the squares and circles. I changed mine to make it a tall card that would fit in a  business sized envelope, and had 4 squares rather than 3. We also added the blossoms on the right with the rhinestone brads.

The last card was a CASE from Nitetime Stamper. I added a silk flower from the Pretties kit, and a build a brad to the center.

Today’s challenge was to use a song/music for inspiration. Phoebe has a lullaby CD that I always rock her to just before she sleeps. The minute I turn it on she flips her head onto my shoulder and gets ready for her nap. It has James Taylor and others singing-and the 2nd song is Dream a Little Dream-which is when I put her down.

This card will be for one of my former downline who after quite a while of trying is going to be a mommy to a new baby girl-I am so happy for her! Her shower is coming up so I used today to make a card in advance (shocking for me!). I used my SU! markers in Summer Sun, Pixie PInk, and Lovely Lavender to ink up the Sweet One stamp from So Many Scallops, and stamped it twice on white paper. I used a 1 3/8″ punch to cut out the center circle on one, and then cut out the whole image on the other. I used dimensionals to pop it up and added glitter dots around. The stars are from the All-Star sport set!

Each star is dotted lightly with Dazzling Diamonds glitter-in the pic everything looks dusty/mottled, bu I promise in real life the glitter does not look clumpy and the scallop looks crisp and neat! After I took the pic I had to flick off some more of the blue glitter (especially in the corner!) but it looks very sweet!

I just got my new Baroque background stamp and thought it would be perfect for today’s color challenge to use River Rock, Black, and White on a card. The background piece is a piece of Ginger Blossoms paper that is a tone on tone River Rock pattern with blossoms on it. I inked up my background stamp in Versamark and embossed in clear over it. Then I used my brayer inked up with black ink and went over the entire piece, and wiped it off the embossed area when I was done.  Although hard to see in the scan, IRL you can faintly see the River Rock pattern show through.

The sketch itself was from Beate’s weekend sketch challenge, so I needed to add a small square in the corner. I used the friend sentiment from Simply Said (a set I still use all the time!) and stamped a small blossom from Embrace Life over it. I stamped the same type of patterned paper that I used for the background with the blossom, and cut it out and adhered it to the white piece to add some more color to that square.

Corners were done by layering black and river rock pieces cut using my SU! photo corner punch and adding 3 black brads for some texture.