Bonanza Buddies for Technique Nights

The Jan/Jun Mini Catalogue has one of the cutest kid's birthday suites we've had in a long time, The Birthday Bonanza Suite! It consists of the Bonanza Buddies Photopolymer stamp set, the coordinating Bonanza dies and the Birthday Bonanza Designer Series Paper, along with some ruched Daffodil Delight ribbon and some assorted pompoms.

I'm preparing for my March Technique Night classes, which I'm planning on turning into a minor Birthday Buffet, and my design for a kids' card uses this suite. Here is the full-sized photo:

• Although I concentrated on the adorable koala, there are two other animals you can make  (and more, if you check out the stamp set on Google): a lion and a toucan. 
• You can also create birthday gifts, birthday hats, balloons and banners as well as the tags I used as background for my koalas. The tags here are created from the Birthday Bonanza DSP.
• I used the Hammered Metal 3D Embossing folder to make some texture on the Terracotta Tile background cardstock for this card.
• This is a 2 Step Stamping set, so the Photopolymer format is perfect, making it easy to locate where to place the second stamp. For the koala holding the balloons, I stamped the balloon strings on the tag first and then on the Koala's hand. When I applied adhesive to the back of the koala, I matched up the strings on the tag and on the koala when I put the koala on the tag, for continuity. The balloons were die cut and added with dimensionals.

My colour palette follows the Designer Series Paper:

Terracotta Tile

Bermuda Bay

Mango Melody

Smoky Slate

• Everything could be die cut with the coordinated Bonanza Dies except for the gifts and they were super easy to fussy cut because of their shapes.
• Some embellishments I added are from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure, but sadly, they are out-of-stock already, and that is the Metallic Baker's Twine & Sequins Combo Pack. I hope you were able to get yours before they sold out!   

Here are a few more ideas with this suite. It really is adorable!                                 

 

     

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Product List

Bonanza Buddies Photopolymer Stamp Set [151567] $22.00	Bonanza Buddies Bundle [153815] $51.25	Birthday Bonanza Designer Series Paper [151313] $15.75	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131197] $12.00	Terracotta Tile 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150884] $12.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $10.25	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [147096] $10.25	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $10.25
Terracotta Tile Classic Stampin’ Pad [150086] $10.25	Daffodil Delight 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Ruched Ribbon [151311] $10.25	Metallic Baker’S Twine & Sequins Combo Pack [152314] $0.00	Hammered Metal 3D Embossing Folder [150646] $12.25	Bonanza Dies [151566] $35.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50

Brayer Birthday Card

I'm preparing for a Birthday Buffet class later this month and I need 8 samples of a variety of Birthday cards. I wanted to try a die cut sentiment from a brayered piece of cardstock with a variegated sunset-like array of colours. With the new sponge brayers from Stampin' Up!, you get a nice soft, easily blended look with no harsh lines so it isn't a difficult look to achieve. And depending on how many copies of this design you want to make, you can just lay your paper panels end to end and brayer them all at once. Once the sentiments are die cut, displaying them on Basic Black cardstock really plays up the soft sunset colours.

Here's a closer look:

• I love the Happy Birthday Thinlits because it is so easy to come up with a quick birthday card where the sentiment is the focal point. They are great when you have some decorative Designer Series Paper that you want to feature. You can just die cut the greeting in a colour that would pop against the background DSP and you are practically done!
• I used a lot of the colours from the 2016 -2018 In Colour collection to brayer the cardstock before die-cutting the sentiment. I started with Peekaboo Peach at the bottom, to Flirty Flamingo, to Sweet Sugarplum and finally Dapper Denim. I used 2 different sponges in the brayer, one for the lighter colours and one for the darker ones.
• After die cutting and gluing the sentiment, using Liquid Multipurpose Glue, (the Fine Tip Glue Pen would work well, too.), I added a mixture of Blushing Bride sequins and the retired 2016 -2018 In Colour Enamel Shapes.

I'm not writing a lot tonight, as I am working the election tomorrow, all day long, so I'm trying to get as much done now for my upcoming classes as possible. I have been volunteering for one of the local political parties during the campaign and tomorrow we will see if all our hard work has had the desired effect! I know I'm tired after this and looking forward to having it done, whatever the outcome, but it has been a great experience. You learn so much about the process.

Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day, 2018!

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Product List

Sweet Sugarplum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141418] $10.00	Peekaboo Peach 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141417] $10.00	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $10.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $11.25	Peekaboo Peach Classic Stampin' Pad [141398] $8.50
Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [141397] $8.50	Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad [141395] $8.50	Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad [141394] $8.50	Sponge Brayers [141714] $10.75	Blushing Bride Sequin Trim [138400] $6.75
2016-2018 In Color Enamel Shapes [141410] $12.00	Happy Birthday Thinlits Die [143700] $27.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	Fast Fuse Adhesive Refill [129027] $10.00

Birthday Buffet Left Overs!

What's the best thing about a good buffet? Why the left-overs, of course, and that's what I'm sharing with you today! Last weekend, I held another Birthday Buffet class and I want to share with you a few more of the cards that I featured as part of that class. Here's the first:

• Using the Cool Treats stamp set and Frozen Treat Framelits, this card reminds me of a Soda Shoppe with its bright colours! I love Lemon Lime Twist and Bermuda Bay together and Melon Mambo turns up the intensity a notch or two! 
• The stamp set was used for the sentiment and embellishments around it, while the framelits die-cut the bowl of ice cream that forms the main image.
• The background paper is from the Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack.

• This is one of a pair of cards made with the Coffee Cafe bundle and the Five for All stamp set. I love the way the coffee images and the humorous sentiments from Five for All work together in these cards.
• The background Designer Series Paper is from the Coffee Break DSP. It has some great background designs that would work with a variety of cards, not just ones associated with coffee.
• I'm still loving the coffee cup sleeve you can die cut AND emboss using one of the framelits from the Coffee Cups Dies. It's so clever!
• The Stitched Shapes Framelits came in handy for the ovals on these two, backed by scallop ovals from the Layering Ovals Framelits.

I guess you can tell I'm in a kind of a hurry today. I'm excited to be going to see Billy Elliot on stage tonight and in two days my girls are coming home for a week's visit with the grandkids, so I'm madly trying to get the house ready for that! We're having a Mom & Me class right in the middle of their visit and my grandkids will be taking part so that will be a first. Since two of my grandsons will be starting school for the first time in September, I'm planning on having everyone make a personalized pencil case using the Stampin' Up! Wide Stamp cases (the ones the wood mount stamps come in)!

Have a great weekend! Sometime next week, I should get my pre-order of my new Holiday Catalogue goodies, but with all the grandkids here, I might have to wait a week for the unboxing video! It's going to be near impossible to film it otherwise, with all the child energy floating around. But who knows, maybe there will be a spot of time I can do a FB live session for you. We'll see!

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Product List

Cool Treats Photopolymer Stamp Set [142982]	Coffee Café Photopolymer Stamp Set [143677]	Coffee Café Photopolymer Bundle [145331]	Five For All Wood-Mount Stamp Set [143781]	Five For All Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143784]
Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack [144131]	Coffee Break Designer Series Paper [144155]	Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115320]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197]	Lemon Lime Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144245]
Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Flirty Flamingo 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141416]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Chocolate Chip 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102128]	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686]
Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102584]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad [126948]	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [144086]
Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [131171]	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [126973]	Regals Enamel Shapes [141681]	Frozen Treats Framelits Dies [142756]	Coffee Cups Framelits Dies [143745]
Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706]	Big Shot [143263]	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]	Glue Dots [103683]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]