31st Birthday

This week is my daughter's 31st birthday. This is the card that I made for her.  It's also for this week's iSpy sketch challenge and was supposed to be for the Cloud9 November blog hop.  I got so wrapped up in choosing the DSP that I didn't actually use any Wplus9 products. Oh well.

I used the PTI Paper Beads die to make all the sunbursts then just started piecing them on.  The circle image is popped up on dimensionals. Pretty straightforward - just a bit time consuming. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Birthday Vickie!

The inside of the card.

The Challenge:

The Supplies:
Stamps: Celebrate Everything
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Black, Whisper White, Summer Smooches DSP, Just Add Cake DSP. Big Top Birthday DSP, East Coast Prep DSP
Ink: Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: 5/8" reg grosgrain ribbon (SU), white Baker's twine (SU), dimensionals
Tools: Nestabilities: circle and lacey circles, Paper Beads die (PTI), Timeless Type Alphabet Jr (SU)

It's A Boy

My daughter is expecting her first child and our first grandchild.  She found out yesterday that it's a boy. As we have 2 girls my husband is really excited at the prospect of a male grandchild coming in February!  Here is the card I sent to her.

I started with this week's iSpy sketch (ISSC33).  I also wanted to use boy colors so the CR84FN63 challenge fit perfectly.  I stamped the main image on white and used markers in Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake and Bashful Blue to color it in.  I die cut it out with Nestability ovals. I also spritzed some Bashful Blue onto the oval thinking it might make it look a bit like an egg :-)    I found some retired SU paper called Spring Showers that had both the BB & CC so I cut out 3 strips (3/4" x 3-3/4") and then popped up on the chicken image on dimensionals. The longer blue strip is from the same DSP.  I used just a part of the stamp "So Many Sayings" for the sentiment and punched it out with the Modern Label punch then added a couple brads. This is all mounted on a piece of white that I ran through my Cuttlebug with the PTI chicken wire impression plate. That's it.  I hope my daughter and SIL like the card!  

A closer look at the chicken wire impression.

Here is the inside of the card.










The Challenges:

All Supplies by Stampin'Up unless noted:

Stamps: Best of Cluck, So Many Sayings

Paper: Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Spring Showers DSP (ret)

Ink: Black, Chocolate Chip, Markers in Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake & Bashful Blue

Accessories: Brads

Tools: Modern Label punch, chicken wire impression plate (pti), dimensionals, color spritzer tool

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad

Lots of anniversaries this month. My parents, my bro & SIL and also mine & my hubbies at the end of the month.  This card is for my parents.  It also was able to get in two challenges.  The iSpy sketch challenge (ISSC31) and also the Color Throwdown (CTD208).

                         

I wanted to play with my new PTI stamp set Heart-2-Heart #7.  I first punched the larger flower out of Melon Mambo pattern pack and then found a Soft Subtle button to go on top with a little bit of white Baker's twine accent.  I played around with the layout until I found one I liked and then stamped the smaller flower. The stem & leaf are Garden Green, the flower is Pink Pirouette and the center brad is Always Artichoke.  Then I stamped the stem & leaves of the larger flower and popped up the flower on a dimensional.  The sentiment is and SU set called Family Reunion.  This is also popped up on dimensionals.  The white panel I think was 4x4" (it's gone in the mail so I can't measure it) and two of the corners have been rounded.  The green ribbon I think is SU Wasabi, now retired,  but it's downstairs and I'm too lazy to go look right now.  Oops. Did I really say that.  The little heart is PTI Tiny Tags stamped in Melon Mambo and tied with Baker's Twine.  I think that's it. Thanks for checking out my card.

Supplies:

Stamps: PTI Heart-2-Heart #7 & TIny Tags; SU Family Reunion

Paper: SU Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White and Melon Mambo pattern pack

Ink: SU Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, and Garden Green

Accessories: Baker's twine, SU Soft Subtles button, SU ribbon, dimensionals, Always Artichoke brad

Tools: Heart-2-Heart #7 die, Nestabilities oval dies