Fun Birthday Card

A while ago I needed a special birthday card for my niece. She is a stamper so it couldn't be just any ordinary card. Here is what I came up with. 

I took a piece of Whisper White card stock and embossed the Flowering Flourishes with clear embossing powder. Then I heavily sponged the card stock with Cajun Craze, Not Quite Navy, Daffodil Delight and Cherry Cobbler which made the embossed part jump right out. This is called emboss resist. Punched a border out of Cherry Cobbler for the bottom, I used the Finishing Touches Edgelits and one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits for the label, which is Cajun Craze. I used the word window punch for the happiness from Fabulous Phrases but any sentiment would work here. A couple of DD brads and it was all put on a Cajun Craze card base. She loved it and it now sits in her stamp room hopefully inspiring her to create beautiful cards for her friends and family. Keep Stamping and thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place. 

Stamping 411 Challenge #230

Here's another sketch challenge from Stamping 411. I love their ideas and layouts, they are so helpful. Of course I chose to do another Christmas card. I really like this one, I hope you do too.

The ornament was sort of a mistake saved. I had used the vintage wallpaper ef on glossy card stock and then brayered wild wasabi onto the raised part of it. But the color was bad. It turned darker than I wanted it on that glossy paper. So I flipped it over and brayered the wasabi ink on the background and the white is depressed. Then I punched out the ornament shape and filled in the white with glitter and my 2 way glue.

Supplies:

Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Teeny Tiny wishes

Ink: Rose Red, Wild Wasabi

Paper:Wild Wasabi, Rose Red, Whisper White, White Glossy

Tools: Ornament Punch, Scallop Squares Duo Die & Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper ef, silver cord, sponge, Modern Label punch, Word Window Punch, Basic Rhinestones, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, 2 way glue, Paper Piercer, Mat pack,

If you have any questions about how I did anything let me know. I do wish that the glitter and the rhinestones would show up better in the picture though. Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.

My Christmas Card

Hello everyone. Thanks for stopping by today. Now that all my Chirstmas cards have been mailed or handed out I thought it would be nice to share with you what I sent out. I think I made 84 of these design. I sent out 106 so the majority got this one.
I used natural white card stock for the base of the card and got the natural white envelopes to match.
The stamp set is Tree Trimmings and
The colors I used are Wild Wasabi, Poppy Parade and Concord Crush. Each color was used for one of the ornaments and one of the elements on the card.
This card is pretty self explanatory but
If you have any questions let me know.
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4 square leaves

Hello there. I had a technique class and taught how to make this card. There were four other projects as well and I will share them with you. This is so easy I almost can't blieve it but like anything else until you know the trick on how to get those windows straight and just where you want them it's a mystery.

I am away from home right now so I am not able to do pictures for you but I will tell you how to do this.

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  First get a piece of card stock ready for the window panel. Mine measures 4 5/8" x 3 3/8" in very vanilla


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  Then out of scrap card stock, using the 1 3/8" square punch, punch 4 squares out. They can be any color, they will eventually be thrown away.


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  Using dotto or snail glue arrange these 4 squares on your first panel to form your windows. Line them up nice and straight just where you want them.


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  Then take your square punch again and punch through the card stock panel right where the squares are.

That's it; you should have a panel of card stock with 4 beautifully lined up squares punched out for windows ready to be filled with whatever little goodies you have. In this case a pretty little leaf from Day of Gratitude set found in the mini holiday catalog, stamped in four rich colors then snipped out with the paper snips.

There is also a panel of more mustard card stock 3 3/4" x 5 and then a smaller 3 1/2" square right on top of that for the backing behind the windows. Then attach the window panel with dimensionals, add the leaves with dimensionals and the sentiment and bow. The sentiment is stamped in Soft Suede on Very Vanilla and then punched out with the largest oval punch. and attached using mono adhesive. This allows you a few seconds to position that piece perfectly before it dries. Make the bow by folding the ribbon into a bow and wrap the legs of the brad around the middle to secure it. Use a glue dot to adhere it to the card.

It's another great card. Here is the supply list

Supplies:

Stamps: Day of Gratitude (WM 120835, CM 121148), Perfect Punches WM 117022, CM 120516)

Paper: Very Vanilla Card Stock (101650), More Mustard (100946)

Ink: Soft Suede (115657), More Mustard (103162), Cajun Craze (119671), Old Olive (102277)

Tools: 1 3/8" square Punch Extra Large (119877), Paper Snips (103579), 2" x 1 3/8" Oval exta large punch(119859)

Accessories: Gold Brads 3/16" (104337), Old Olive 3/8" Taffeta ribbon (119767), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)

This technique can be used not only with squares but with any shape at all. Think straight accross or diaganol. The possibilities are endless. If you have any questions let me know.

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Simply Hearts

This is the third and last card project we did at the last workshop I held. This came from my upline, Cindy Fodor and this is something I forget about doing. That is taking a small stamp, like the heart of flowers here, and stamping it a number of times, in this case three.

This is how I did it.

• The base card is Rose Red cs 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
• Then I used a piece of Very Vanilla cs 2 1/2 x 4 1/4. In which I punched each end with the horizontal slot. You will have to remove the guide on the punch in order to do this
• Stamp the heart of flowers on it three times in basic brown ink. The stamp-a-ma-jig made this very easy. Start with the outside one's and leave the center one for last.
  
• I colored them using blender pens and the ink on top of the ink pads. You know, when the ink pad is closed and you squish it onto the pad.
• I stamped the sentiment onto a scrap of vanilla cs and punched it out with the large oval punch. If you turn your punch over you will be able to line up the sentiment exactly where you want it.
  
• I punched one word window out of close to cocoa and cut it in half.
  
• I punched a scalloped oval out of pretty in pink.
  
• I had pieces of pretty in pink cs 1 3/4 x 4 1/2 and close to cocoa cs 2 x 4 3/4.
• Assemble. Look at the picture for help with this. Tuck the cut end of the word window into the punched slot on the vanilla.
  
• Use the 1/16" punch to make the hole for the brads.
  

I think that's it. This card could be made up in a variety of colors. I love this set.

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Supplies:
Stamps: Simply Said 115066
Paper:Very Vanilla cs 101650, Rose Red cs 102544, Close to Cocoa cs 101341 Pretty in Pink cs 100459
Tools: Scallop oval punch 114889, Large Oval Punch 107305, Horizontal Slot Punch 105089
Ink:Basic Brown 104315, Rose Red 101778 , Close to Cocoa 103139 Pretty in Pink 101301
Embellishments: Vintage brads 109109