Lap of Luxury Birthday

My grand niece turns 8 this month and she will be receiving this card with a little present tucked inside. This Lap of Luxury dsp has been one of my all time favorite papers to work with. I love purple and a whole stack of designs with purple as a main color in the form of Concord Crush has been a delight. And I am so happy that the In Colors get to hang around for another whole year. That is super. This is one of the items on the last chance accessories list so you have to act fast if you want your own beautiful paper to play with.

• Also here you can see how the new Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch looks when it is set on all 3 layers. Makes a perfect center for the Bigz clear Flower die.
• Also used is the branch from the 2-step Bird Punch and that is the Holly Jolly dsp you see.
• I used the Itty Bitty Shape Punch Pak to get the small center of the flower
• Then topped it off with a Basic Rhinestone.
• The Curly Cute stamp set was usedalong with Concord Crush ink for the sentiment and curved with the bone folder.
• To get that perfect end to the banner I cut a straight piece of Whisper White cardstock and used the corner of the 1 1/4" square punch to give it a nice tail.
• It all sits on the base card of Pretty in Pink.

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Remember When

Do you remember last year before the new 2010-2011 idea book and catalog came out, before the "upsetting" color renovation happened. There was panic in the streets when that came about. Now, we love, love, love the new colors and cannot imagine going back. Well, before all that took place I made my friend Kye Ann a birthday card. I met her at church and she takes part in a group called the Linus Project. That organization provides blankets to local hospitals to provide them to children patients. So when I learned how to make this type of card I thought of her and went ahead and made her this birthday card. She will receive it today. Even though the card stock and dsp are retired I hope she likes it.

• Cameo Coral card stock was used as the base for the card.
• A Top Note was made through the Big Shot and using the Top Note Die
• 1 1/4" square punch on the designer series paper
• The squares made from retired Spring Flowers dsp (2006-2007) were then adhered to the Top Note with Anywhere Glue Stick
• The stitching was added with the Chocolate Chip marker
•  Scallop Square punch was used on Chocolate Chip card stock
• A beautiful K was stamped with Lovely Letters stamp set on Very Vanilla Card Stock and Chocolate Chip ink then punched out with the 1 1/4" square punch 
• Both the letter square and the finished Top Note were lightly sponged with Chocolate Chip ink
• The bow was added by using 1/4" Vanilla Grosgrain Ribbon

It's a card that is impressive and once you have the technique down it goes fairly quickly.

Another added step you can do, which I learned about after I made this card, is once the Top Note is covered with dsp and the "stitches" have been taken it can be run through the Big Shot again using one of many of the Embossing Folders. The Finial Press, Wallpaper, Square Lattice to make it look even more quilted.

Any questions let me know.

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Contempo Christmas Squared

It's getting really close to Christmas so I'm going to try to get several posts up today. Here is a card I made only one of. I like it but with the large filigree brad sort of hard to mail. So I gave it to a friend when I was with her. I love the Contempo set and this card goes together very fast. Check out the rhinestone on the ornament. It gives a very simple card a little more bling. Woohoo. I love bling.

If you have any questions let me know, thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place. Come back real soon.