Cake Soiree in Poppy Parade and Silver

And we continue with the saga of the milestone birthday parties. This card was for a dear friend who turned 70 this past Sunday. As I was trying to come up with ideas for her card, I browsed through some Facebook photos I had of her and I noticed that she loved to wear shades of red and coral and often in rich floral designs. Right away, I thought of the Cake Soiree stamp set and decided that I was going to use that set with some Silver embossing and try out Poppy Parade with Calypso Coral at the same time!

• Right away, I knew I'd found a palette that I would love and use many times: Poppy Parade, Calypso Coral and Silver, with a little Granny Apple Green thrown in for good measure.

Poppy Parade

Calypso Coral

Granny Apple Green

Silver Foil

• I started by heat embossing the cake and the gift images from Cake Soiree and some of the floral images on separate pieces of Whisper White cardstock. Then I wanted to add some background colour to the embossed images, but since it is a red rubber stamp set, it is quite difficult to do the 2 step stamping, even using the Stamparatus, because you can't easily line up the stamp with the image. I solved the problem this way: I embossed the images using Versamark ink, Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder and the Heat Tool, then die cut the images with the coordinating Sweet Cake Framelits. I did not discard the cardstock that the images were cut from, however. I used it as a template.
• I placed the cardstock with the empty space from where the image had been die cut on the base of my Stamparatus and used the magnets to secure it.I then placed the stamp with the solid background colour into the hole left by the die cut, lining it up exactly, and closed one of the flaps on the Stamparatus to pick the stamp up. Then I replaced the die cut image back in the hole, again lined up exactly, inked up the stamp and stamped. I got as close to a perfect alignment as you will ever get. If that is all clear as mud, I will try to do a quick video tutorial on it in a week.

• For the floral designs on the cake and the gift, I used a Blender Pen and the ink from the stamp pads as I don't yet have my new colour Stampin' Write Markers.They are on their way in my next delivery.
• I mounted a piece of Silver Foil Sheet on some Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet and die cut the ornate cake stand and the numbers 7 and 0. The Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet makes it so easy to adhere the intricate die cuts without untidy glue that really messes up the foil sheets. Just peel of the backing and stick!

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Product List

Cake Soirée Wood-Mount Stamp Set [145521] $62.00	Cake Soirée Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145745] $48.00	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $5.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Poppy Parade 8-1/2" x 11"" Card Stock" [119793] $11.50
Versamark Pad [102283] $11.25	Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad [147050] $10.25	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $10.25	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] $6.75
Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.00	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00	Blender Pens [102845] $16.00	Sweet Cake Framelits Dies [145617] $44.00	Little Numbers Thinlits Dies [138278] $25.00
Big Shot [143263] $136.00	Big Shot Die Brush - New Configuration [144262] $16.50	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $13.50	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.25

Handwritten Sunshine Wishes with Itty Bitty Greetings

Along with all the birthday celebrations that I've been attending, we had an engagement party to go to this past weekend. I don't very often get to design an engagement card so this was fun to work on. I used three new products, one continuing product that I love and three retired products! See if you can guess what they are before you scroll down much further.

• One of the new products is a new background stamp called Handwritten, which is a script stamp. I used a couple of techniques with it. One I like to call the Background Whisper Technique. I leave the background stamp face up on the work surface and ink it up, here with the returning Mint Macaron. I placed my watercolour paper on the surface of the stamp very gently and then press lightly in the areas I want the background images to appear in. The other areas get only a very light image or none at all.
• I then used a fairly wet Aqua Painter, or paint brush, while the ink was still fresh, to spread the ink around and make it bleed around the paper to form a watercolour background. I dried that layer, then added a little more ink, this time Bermuda Bay ink, over top of the previous background, again with the Aqua Painter and dried it with the Heat Tool.
• I die cut two hearts using the Sunshine Wishes Thinlit Dies, one from retired Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper and one from Silver Foil sheets, from which I also die cut the word Congrats from the same die set. The Glimmer paper and the Silver Foil had been mounted on Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets before being die cut, turning them into easily adhered stickers, simply by removing the backing. The sentiment, Congrats, had the same treatment.

• The "You're Engaged" sentiment is from the new Itty Bitty Greetings stamp set, which fills the gap for the newly retired Teeny Tiny Wishes, in case you're missing it. The sentiments are still tiny, but they are a little more up-to-date. It was stamped in Mint Macaron, punched with the old retired Word Window punch (which I refuse to let go of) and mounted on a backing made by the Classic Label Punch using Silver Foil.
• A little bow made from some retired Shimmer Ribbon in Bermuda Bay, from the Occasions Catalogue, and some Tranquil Tide coloured pearls from the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls provided the finishing touches.

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Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Handwritten Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146524] $20.00	Handwritten Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146521] $27.00	Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146667] $49.00	Itty Bitty Greetings Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146664] $65.00	Watercolor Paper [122959] $6.75
Silver Foil Sheets [132178] $5.50	Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper [135315] $6.75	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197] $11.50	Mint Macaron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138337] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25
3/8" (1 Cm) Shimmer Ribbon Pack [147243] $0.00	Share What You Love Artisan Pearls [146927] $8.25	Aqua Painters [103954] $22.50	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00	Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies [141489] $35.00
Big Shot [143263] $136.00	Classic Label Punch [141491] $23.50	Window Word Punch [119857] $20.00	Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets [144106] $13.50	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25