Bev was looking for a card to case using the Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper from the Stampin' UP! Summer Mini Catalog (Mini Catty is on the bottom of the page- paper is on pg. 23). And while you're checking the paper out, look at the stamp set (same page) and Flower Garden Impressions Embossing Folder (pg. 24) that coordinates with the paper!

Anyway... Bev found this card and I decided to case (copy and stamp everything) with different paper. Here are my creations:

Emily had a birthday party for one of her classmates last week. I whipped this 3x3 card out and let her help decorate the inside.



She stamped her name and the cupcake and put the stars on. She wanted 5 stars because her classmate was turning 5.

Last teacher gift FINALLY completed- whew! Dropped them at preschool Tuesday- yes, I know that Emily's last day of school was May 25. Yes, I know I was a little late.

Flag Day :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDY!!!

My bff's birthday is on Flag Day. For those of you who aren't aware of this most famous holiday, it's June 14. This year, I actually had my gift early but as usual, left the card making until the last minute. Since I had just made a gift card holder a few weeks ago, I used those measurements to make this holder.

Gift card holder on the left, card on the right.








I actually made a birthday card that I like! I will definitely make this card again!

More Masking

I actually came up with my own card layout and design!!! First time for everything! So I loved the masking look and knew I wanted to use the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set. Next, I just had to pick out the color combination and here it is. Cute, huh? I see more masking cards in the future!

Techniques

My upline Bev came over on Friday and brought some awesome stuff for us to do. Well, for me to do anyway. Erin couldn't make it so Bev and I made all the samples. I'm so excited about all of the cards we made!!!!

Bev is doing a technique class with her stamper club. Each month, she shows them a new stamping technique and they make a card with it. For us, she is making a card plus just the technique and a piece of paper with instructions. I have other technique pages completed and plan to put them in a 6x6 scrapbook. She does a 6x6 sheet with the technique sample and directions on one side than slides the card on the back side.

The first technique is called masking. There are a lot of different ways you can do masking as I learned when searching blogs for examples. I had so much fun doing these sample and cards, I just kept going! It was so easy and look at how beautiful!!!!!

For this technique you will need:

• 5x7 index card cut in half
• sponges
• stamp
• ink
• dotto

I used the Lovely As a Tree stamp set, old olive, bashful blue and so saffron inks, and chocolate chip marker. After adhering the index card pieces to the card front, I inked up the tree stamp with old olive and colored in parts of the tree trunk with the chocolate chip marker. Next, I stamped the tree in between the index card pieces once, moved the stamp up and stamped again without re-inking. I did this a second time, moving the stamp up each time I stamped. Last, I sponged bashful blue for the sky, so saffron for the sun and a lot of old olive to fill in the trees so it looks like a forest. Bev's sample is the bottom right card. My card is the bottom left and the 2 technique samples are the ones on the top. I can't wait to try this out with some of my stamps!!!

The next technique is kissing- and not the puckering up kind ;)

For this technique you will need the following:

• a patterned stamp (any small pattern)
• a bold, solid stamp
• 2 different color stamp pads: one dark and one light

Here I used 2 stamps: Ornate Blossom and Bella Toile with Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie ink. After inking up the 2 stamps, I stamped the Bella Toile on the Ornate Blossom stamp and then stamped on card stock. The Bella Toile shows up nicely in the Ornate Blossom doesn't it?

These last 2 cards are just because Bev makes us cards all the time. These are made with items in the Summer Mini Catalog from Stampin' UP!

Supplies for this card are Beyond the Garden DSP (catalog picture does not do this paper justice. It is beautiful!!!) and Fabulous Florets stamp set.


This card is made with the Sail Away stamp.

Thanks for looking! I hope I inspired some creativity in all of you!

Gift Card Holder

I needed some quick cards for a birthday party today. I Googled gift card holders and I found one here. The first one I tried to make I messed up. Instead of having a 4 x 8 1/2 inch piece of card stock, I had a 4 x 11 piece- ooops! I made one really quick but decided I needed to make it bigger because I had bought Visa gift cards and they were in a cardboard holder and I wanted to put it all in a card. I came up with 6 x 11", scored at 3 3/4 and 8. Worked beautifully. Here they are: