Upsy Daisy Circle

Today I am so excited to share with you a card that looks like I used Nestabilities to make but I didn't. I do not have the circle scissors or Nestabilities. So I got my Colluzle out, you remember that don't you, and cut a circle. Then look what I did.

• The first thing was to cut a circle out big enough to stamp the Upsy Daisy flowers inside. Then I inked and stamped them in Lovely Lilac and sponged around the edges.
• I punched out 2 - 1 1/4" circles in garden green making sure to leave enough area around the outside for another punch.
  
• Then I centered the hole in the scallop circle punch and punched out 2 scallop circles.Then cut between two of the scallops on each one.
• I carefully opened them up and spread them apart and worked with them until they fit around that circle. I adhered them to the outside of the circle. Then attached that to the card with stamping dimensionals.
  
• I assembled the rest of the card using a strip of lovely lilac cs stock and garden green cs which I had taken the scallop edge punch too.
• I stamped the sentiment

It took just a few minutes to put this together. Well worth the $$ I saved by not buying the nestabilities. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.

Supplies:
Stamp Set: Upsy Daisy 111710
Paper:Whisper White cs 100730, Lovely Lilac cs 100427, Garden Green cs 102584
Tools: Stamp-A-Ma-Jig 101049, Coluzzle (retired), Scallop edge punch 112091, scallop circle punch 109043
Ink: Lovely Lilac 102874, Garden green 102272
Embellishments: Stamping Dimensionals 104430

Upsy Daisy in Turquoise

I don't know why but lately I have been grabbing the Upsy Daisy stamp set to make my cards. I like it. At first when I got it I really couldn't think of much to do with it and then the wheels started turning and now I think it is one of the most versatile sets there is. It's solid but it can look like a line stamp and it can be used for a bg or the main focal point. What more could a girl want.
So here is another card made with Upsy Daisy and I think this is appropriate for a man. No flowery, ribbony, curly cues or scallops so that's what I'm going to do. Give it to a man. I hope he likes it and I hope you do too.

It's such a simple card so here are the steps.

• First there is the card 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in Tempting Turquoise (after it's folded)
• Then the Whisper White cs went through the Big Shot riding on top of the Top Note die.
• It came out with that cute little border of embossing around the edge.
  
• Using the stamp-a-ma-jig to place it just so, the daisies were inked in T. Turquoise then using the rock and roll method with taken with Teal.
• The sentiment was stamped in T. Turquoise on a scrap piece of Whisper White then punched out with the Word Window.
  
• I punched some T. Turquoise cs with the Modern Label punch. Then adhered the sentiment with a little turquoise brad and stuck it right on the front of the card with snail glue.

That's it.
I love my new camera. I wanted one that took really good close up shots and I think I got one. This happy birthday looks clear to me. I enjoy looking at close ups so I want to include them here also.
Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place. I hope you take some of these ideas and use them yourself. Stamp away.
Supplies:
Stamp Set: Upsy Daisy 111710
Paper:Whisper White cs 100730, Tempting Turquoise cs 102067
Tools: Big Shot 113439, Top Note Bigz Die 113463, Modern Label Punch 116630, Word Window Punch 105090, Mat Pack 105826, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig 101049
Ink: Tempting Turquoise 100814, Taken With Teal 103257
Embellishments: turquoise brad

Upsy Daisy & Swirls Scribbles

This is the Wednesday Card sketch challenge from SCS. If you don't know about this site you have to check it out. Thousands of samples of cards and other paper craft items are displayed there. Any Stampin' Up set that goes back about 10 years is listed there. All kinds of tutorials, forums, resources, threads to talk about anything, places you can buy or sell stamps, clubs and groups. Well, as you can tell, I am so impressed with that site.

Every day they have a challenge and I have decided to participate in the Wednesday card sketch. You can find the details here on this one. It's SC239 so look for that in the thread if the date has been removed. I got this technique from Julie Buhler. She has a great tutorial on this. Click here for that.

• I started with a yoyo yellow card 5 1/2" x 4 1/4".
• The Lovely Lilac rectangles 1 1/2" x 3 3/4" back the basic black ones 1 1/4" x 3 1/2".
• The image panel started out whisper white 3 3/8" x 2 3/8" and following the tutorial of reverse silhouette I ended up with the Upsy Daisy.
• Which was then added with dimensionals
• I backed that with Yoyo yellow 2 1/2" x3 1/2" and Lovely Lilac 2 7/8" x 3 7/8"
• Then on the right side I added the burst of black squiggles from the sizzlit die scribbles swirls and arranged them in an appropriate pattern.

That's it for this one.
Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place

Supplies:
Stamp Set: Upsy Daisy 111710
Paper:Whisper White cs 100730, Basic Black 102851, Lovely Lilac 100427, Yoyo Yellow 102824
Tools: Paper Cutter 104152, brayer 102395 , heat tool 100005, Big Shot 113439, Scribbles, Swirls Sizzlits Die 113441
Ink:Basic Black 101179, yo yo yellow 102717, lovely lilac 102874, versaMark pad 102283
Embellishments: clear embossing powder