Happy Birthday for a Teen Boy

Today's card is for our nephew who is a teenager. He likes a certain college football team and I have used two of their colors on this card. In Stampin' Up color language, the colors are Cherry Cobbler and Crushed Curry. Can you guess which college football team he loves?

My inspiration was this card by Mary Fish at Stampin' Pretty. Mary is my upline and friend and I am always excited to see her almost-daily creations. Her clean and simple style and how she uses different things as her inspiration are a huge help to those of us who need a little help in the inspiration department!

My stamp set "Big Day" and my Blendabilities Daffodil Delight Collection are free items in the Sale-A-Bration catalog. You can choose one item free when you purchase any $50 in Stampin' Up! products. (UPDATE: Blendabilities are no longer available, sorry!)

I hope you enjoyed looking at my card today! Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. And don't forget to leave your football team guess!!

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Clean and SIMPLE!

There is not much to say about this card except QUICK! EASY! LIMITED SUPPLIES! If you need a last minute birthday card, this is your card!

I hope you enjoyed my idea and that you will leave a comment below.

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QUICK BIRTHDAY CARD SUPPLIES:

Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Designer Series Paper: Comfort Cafe

Stamps: Curly Cute

Ink: Midnight Muse

Embellishments: Dahlia in Midnight Muse

Adhesive: Snail, Mini Glue Dots

Ice Cream Birthday

My nephew turned nine last week and I sent him some ice cream parlor gift certificates. This card is a great "match" for such a gift. It was the first time I have used "Smooch Spritz." This first became available in the Summer Mini, and I've had it for over a month now! It worked beautifully with the Color Catcher, a sort of shield to keep only your project (not the wall or your pet!) "smooched!"

Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz (118772 - 4.95) and Color Catcher (121093 - 5.95)

For the ice cream swirls, I first stamped them in Chocolate Chip Classic Ink, Very Vanilla Craft Ink, Daffodil Delight Classic Ink onto Whisper White card stock. I had the Chocolate, Vanilla and Lemon flavored cones I desired.

Then I leaned the scrap of paper they were stamped on against the back wall of the Color Catcher. I sprayed the Smooch Spritz in layers until I had the shimmer I was looking for.

The Smooch Spritz can be sprayed on very lightly or more heavily. You can adjust the look by layering it. I then cut the swirls out.

The cones were stamped in Chocolate Chip Classic Ink onto Whisper White and also cut out. Sentiment was cut into a banner shape and anchored onto the card using a Craft/Crumb Cake corduroy brad.

All of the elements were centered onto a background of Soft Suede that I ran through my Big Shot using the Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (119976 - $7.95). Card base is Daffodil Delight card stock.

I hope you enjoy looking. Please leave me your comments below. Today I am making a summer's worth of ice cream for my family to enjoy. I start out early in the morning, and by 4th of July we are cooling down with a few flavors of home made goodness! Stay safe!

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Circle Punch Thoughts

Today is the last day you can leave a comment HERE to enter to win my Blog Candy. Please follow all of the rules on that post.

I was creating my PPA39 card last week and just couldn't stop using my Circle Circus and these wonderful colors together. I hope you enjoy!

Shopping List:

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Soft Suede

Stamps: Circle Circus, Trendy Trees (sentiment)

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Rich Razzleberry

Extras: Scallop Circle, Circle, Boho Blossoms, Word Window and Modern Label punches, Stampin' Dimensionals, Scor-Pal

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PPA39 - K.I.S.S.

This week's challenge at Pals Paper Arts is K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Sweetie). Create using a few supplies and not a lot of steps. Those may be more for one person than another, but I invite you to play along! Post your creation using the linking system on the PPA blog. Maybe you will be selected as the Pals Paper Arts Pick this week.

Here I covered my Very Vanilla card stock completely with one of the Sweet Pea Designer Series prints, then used my Scor-Pal to score a criss cross design onto a small square. I matted that with a larger square of Soft Suede.

In the center I placed a Soft Suede Circle Circus stamp that I embellished with a Boho Blossoms-punched Circle Circus image stamped in Rich Razzleberry. I am loving these colors together!

It's your turn to play along!

Shopping List:

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Soft Suede

Designer Series Paper: Sweet Pea

Stamps: Circle Circus

Ink: Soft Suede, Rich Razzleberry

Extras: Scor-Pal, Circle and Boho Blossoms punches

Please leave your comments, I love to read them all.

Circle Point Birthday

Here I go in Circles again! I used my Circle Circus set over last weekend to make some designer papers or strips from scrap pieces of card stock. I had so much fun, I could hardly stop! And, the good news is, you can put a card together very fast if you have your color scheme almost made up (here I only had to add one color to my neutrals of Basic Black, Going Gray and Whisper White) and the "designer paper" is sitting right there on your work space!

For this design, I used two of the circles in Basic Black and Going Gray onto Whisper White. Later when I chose the colors for my card, I accented with one of the stamps from Mark the Date in Pacific Point. It matches the matte on my Going Gray card. I used a scarp of Basic Black and ran it through the crimper for some texture. Then I placed my sentiment from Mark the Date and my cupcake from Crazy for Cupcakes. I colored the cupcake with Pacific Point from a puddle in the lid using my Blender Pen.

I hope you enjoy my creation. Please do leave a comment; I love to read all of them.

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More Circle Circus

When I made my Mojo card yesterday, I could not stop with this pattern I created using Circle Circus stamps! It is so elegant and I like the color combination I chose! I won't post any more of these cards, but when you stamp a whole sheet of paper with your own "design" you can create more than a few cards in a snap! Just choose different card stock colors to pair with your color combo, and you can create a whole collection. It would make an excellent gift. I think I'll add a sentiment later when I use the card. That would make it a custom card. Also, I wish you could feel this luxurious Basic Black satin ribbon! It is such high quality, soft, yet holds when you tie or knot it!

Thanks for looking, and please leave your comments, I read every one!

Shopping List:

Card Stock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla

Stamps: Circle Circus

Ink: Real Red, Close to Cocoa, Basic Black

Extras: Basic Black satin ribbon

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Circle Mojo

Good Mojo Monday to you! I hope your weekend was fantastic! I flipped the sketch this week. Also, I decided to cut down the size of the oval in the middle. I hope you like looking. Please leave your comments as I love to read them! Later on this week, I should receive my preview items from the Summer Mini, which comes out on May 1st! So, stay tuned...

Shopping List:

Card Stock: Real Red, Textured Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Kraft, Basic Black

Stamps: Circle Circus, Tiny Tags

Ink: Real Red, Close to Cocoa, Basic Black

Extras: Small, Large and Wide Oval punches, paper crimper, Real Red Satin ribbon, brads, Stampin' Dimensionals

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Play At Pals Paper Arts!

PPA Play! Come play along at Pals Paper Arts. You won't be disappointed with the entries we get every week. Crafters just like you, looking for a challenge to help them get their project started. This week it's a sketch by Margaret Moody. I made this card masculine for a birthday.

Shopping List:

Card Stock: Naturals Ivory, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Unknown and retired

Stamps: Circle Circus, Everyday Flexible Phrases

Ink: Creamy Caramel

Accessories: Circle Die Cut, Big Shot

Birthday Love

Awhile back I made this birthday card. I had some scraps left over and sitting on my desk and I am finally getting around to using them! Here is another birthday card, decidedly more feminine than the other one. All pieces except the sentiment were already sitting on my desk ready to be used. The sentiment is from two different stamps in the Fundamental Phrases set and I "accidentally" lined them up very close to one another, but I liked how they looked, so I kept them that way! I should have used my Stampa-ma-jig!

I hope you enjoy looking at my paper crafting and I hope you will leave a comment. I enjoy reading each and every one.

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Shopping List:

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Bermuda Bay

Stamps: Circle Circus, Fundamental Phrases

Ink: Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy

Accessories: Big Shot, Texturz Plates, Polka Dot Grossgrain Ribbon, Modern Label Punch

All products Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Have a great weekend!

Birthday

It's my soldier son's birthday on Saturday, and luckily he is still state-side, so he will get his card! I dreamed up the colors while drifting off to sleep. It was hard to just say Happy Birthday, since he is in the middle of training to go to Iraq, but I wanted to wish him the best anyway. His birthday present went into his bank account for later.

Going Gray was my card base, then I layered it with my own designer paper (Whisper White) stamped with Night of Navy and Bermuda Bay using the Circle Circus stamp set. Down the middle I matted the Going Gray with Night of Navy cardstock and put the Going Gray tag from Birthday Bliss (embossed with clear embossing powder and matted with Bermuda Bay) right in the center. It looked a bit lonely, so I stamped the Circle Circus images two more times using Versa Mark and clear embossing powder.

Ingredients:

Cardstock: Going Gray, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay

Stamps: Birthday Bliss, Circle Circus

Ink: Versa Mark, Night of Navy, Bermuda Bay

Accessories: Small and Large Tag punches, Stampin' Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun

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Bigtime Congrats

This was my first card using the Stampin' Up! Pop Up Look Here Die. It looks very complicated, but it is pretty simple once you have it cut out for you. You can even elaborate more on it and use designer series paper, colored cardstock, textured cardstock, or add on some punches of your own, but this is basic.

The outside has Nouveau Chic designer series paper and the inside has a piece of Walk in the Park designer series paper. This is for a friend's son, who has graduated high school and is going on to college. His party is this weekend. I thought that with two guy roommates, he could use a little something from an electronics store, so a gift card was in order.

Ingredients:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Textured Bermuda Bay, Basic Gray

Stamps: Congrats

Ink: Bermuda Bay

Accessories: Bigz XL Pop-up Look Here die, Small Star punch, sticky tape, Modern Label punch, Photo Corner punch

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Color Throwdown #54

Color Throwdown's colors are: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray, Blush Blossom and Really Rust. I had fun with this other-worldly guy, stamped in Going Gray. I colored him in using the colors of the challenge, then matted him with more colors.  Set him on top of a Texturz Plate embossing of dots and then set the greeting on a flag with a little brass.  Simple! Clean! 

Ingredients:

Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray, Blush Blossom, Really Rust

Stamps:  Greetings, Earthling!

Ink: Going Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Blush Blossom, Really Rust

Accessories: Gold Brad, Texturz Plate, Big Shot, Blender Pen

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Please don't forget *tomorrow* bright and early, there will be a new challenge posted for the design team that I am part of.  Visit Pals Paper Arts today and see our artist picks from last week's inaugural challenge.  Then visit again tomorrow and see our new challenge! Subscribe so you never miss a post!  Have fun playing at PPA! 

And Many Mower

The recently released Occasions Mini Catalog doesn't disappoint! This whimsical set of 8, And Many Mower (113724) allows lots of creativity because you can color in the designs using Stampin' Write Markers (105541), Stampin' Pastels (105542), Watercolor Pencils (101879), Watercolor Wonder Crayons (106695). (See page 152 in the Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book and Catalog). For those of you looking for the perfect "guy" cards, the sentiments and images will play along. The themes are golfing, lawnmowers and relaxing along with the sentiments for birthday and Father's Day.
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