Amazing Life Birthday Card with Texture

I'm working on Birthday Card designs right now and I randomly pulled Mango Melody cardstock out, thinking that it would be a lively colour to pair with the Amazing Life stamp set, which I needed to ink up for the first time. Then I tried to find DSP and other colours to match up with it and wow! That colour is not easy to match. Well, not if you are not a fan of the complementary colours that Stampin' Up! often pairs. I'm much more of an analogous colour person where I will choose colours much closer to each other on the colour wheel with the same undertones, along with neutrals and they somehow have to kind of 'glow' together! It's an instinct for me, but I really struggled with Mango Melody. The best match for me was Calypso Coral but it needed an intermediary colour so I used So Saffron, with Crumb Cake as a neutral.

Mango Melody

So Saffron

Calypso Coral

Crumb Cake

Without a proper DSP to match these colours, I needed lots of texture for my backgrounds, so I settled on the Ruffled Dynamic Embossing Folder for the Calypso Coral panel and the Corrugated Dynamic Embossing Folder for the Crumb Cake strip. For both of these pieces, I lightly spritzed the paper first with water so that I could get the deep impression without the paper cracking, especially in the case of the Corrugated Folder.

• The sentiment from Amazing Life was stamped in Mango Melody ink and the cake image in Calypso Coral ink which are vibrant enough to show up well on the Whisper White cardstock and still make an impression against the bright cardstock in the background. This image panel was die cut using the Rectangle Stitched Framelits.
• I used the Calypso Coral 1/8" Sheer Ribbon for the little bow on the Crumb Cake strip and some copper sequins from the Metallics Sequin Assortment to finish off the card.

• Make sure you've signed up for March's Paper Pumpkin kit. March is Paper Pumpkin's 6th Birthday and along with a special box and a birthday themed kit, you will received not one but TWO stamp sets in this kit. You need to be signed up by March 10th to get the kit! 
• To sign up click HERE.

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

Amazing Life Photopolymer Stamp Set [148750] $27.00	Amazing Life Photopolymer Bundle [150624] $67.50	Mango Melody 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146989] $11.50	So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105118] $11.50	Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122925] $11.50
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $10.25	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Calypso Coral 1/8" Sheer Ribbon [144173] $8.25
Metallics Sequin Assortment [144214] $6.75	Ruffled Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143699] $14.00	Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [148026] $14.00	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $48.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25

MOJO Monday is Back!! With Dandelion Wishes

One of my all time favourite challenges was Mojo Monday and I was mildly heartbroken last year when the challenge shut down after 9 years of weekly challenges! But I found out some great news this week: Julee Tilman has started up a more relaxed version of Mojo Monday on her own blog and I'm excited to be playing along for the first time in a long time! I'm busy coming up with simple but attractive birthday card designs for my Birthday Buffet class this coming Saturday and this will be one of them, featuring the Dandelion Wishes stamp set.

Here's the Mojo Monday Challenge Banner:

What I especially like about these sketches is that they include measurements! How cool and useful is that?? Here's my entry:

• I started with a Coastal Cabana cardbase and added a panel of Soft Sea Foam of 4 3/4" x 2 1/4", embossed using the Layered Leaves Dynamic Embossing Folder.
• I used the single dandelion seed head stamp from Dandelion Wishes to stamp the image twice, once right on the card base and once on a 4" x 4" piece of Whisper White cardstock. I die cut the Whisper White one using the 2 1/2" Stitched Circle die from the Stitched Shapes Framelits. Using the Layering Circle Framelits, I also die cut a scallop circle matte just a little larger in Basic Black. After adhering the White circle to the Black matte I glued it partially over the Soft Sea Foam panel so that it matches the stamped image on the card base, as shown.
• I stamped the sentiment, from Itty Bitty Birthdays (from the Occasions Catalogue) on one strip of Whisper White that was 3/8" x 2 1/2" centering it. I then cut the strip in half to separate the two words of the sentiment. and backed each half with a Basic Black strip the same size, slightly offset. I added a couple of dandelion seeds to finish off the end of the Wishes panel because Wishes is much shorter than Birthday, so leaves a big space on the right hand side that needed filling.                                                                                                                         
• I finished by adding 3 self-adhesive sequins from the Gingham Gala Collection.

Maybe you might want to play along with Mojo Monday again, too, and spread the word around that it's back!

The Second Release Sale-A-Bration Rewards are now available to earn, and it's a good thing because the beautiful Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets are now sold out and we need something to take their places!!

I'll be adding some Pins to my Pinterest Board for 2019 SAB Brochures!

I am looking for new members for my team. If you live in Canada and don't currently have a demonstrator, I would love to have you be the newest Papercraft Cat! Sale-A-Bration is the absolute best time to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator. Whether you want to work it as a business or whether you just want to take advantage of the discounts as a hobby demo, it's the best deal around! $135 for $225 worth of any current Stampin' Up! product you want from any catalogue, with free shipping! Plus 5 1/2 months (if you join now) of 20% discounts on your orders, the chance to see the new Annual Catalogue and order from it a month ahead of the public and access to a great community of fellow stampers and demos! There are no strings attached. I know it sounds too good to be true, but really there are no hidden catches. If you can't make your minimums, you just lose your demo status. And that's it! No inventory that you need to buy, no financial risk except for the original $135 and you get more than that's worth in product! What are you waiting for? To join my team click HERE. Contact me if you have questions.

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

Dandelion Wishes Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146747] $27.00	Dandelion Wishes Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146744] $38.00	Itty Bitty Birthdays Cling Stamp Set [148618] $31.00	Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131297] $11.50	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146988] $11.50
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $11.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Gingham Gala Adhesive-Backed Sequins [148561] $10.25	Layered Leaves Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143704] $12.25
Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] $41.00	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $48.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50

All the Good Things for a Simple As You See It Challenge & 2nd Release SAB Rewards

Our newest As You See It Challenge is a Fill In the Blank Challenge called Simple is As Simple Does, where you are given an unfinished sentence and you fill in the blank with a word or phrase and then you use that word or phrase to guide the making of your project. Here is As You See It Challenge #194's Banner:

And the way I filled in the blank was, "When I think SIMPLE, I think of lots of white, few colours and a simple image.  An image like the bonsai tree in the All the Good Things stamp set. And here's what that looks like to me:

• The first thing you notice is the image of the bonsai tree from the All the Good Things stamp set from the Annual Catalogue. The image and the sentiment are all one stamp so I had to be very careful when I inked it up with both Soft Sea Foam ink and Memento Tuxedo Black ink. That procedure might not be termed simple, although it looks simple on the page. There are a couple of ways to make it easier. First, it would be fairly easy to trim the sentiment from the image and make two stamps. Then it's a piece of cake to ink them up in two different colours. 
• But if you think it's a sacrilege to cut up a stamp, then you could use the Stamparatus and ink up the image first in the Soft Sea Foam and stamp the image. Then you would clean the stamp and ink up the sentiment carefully, cleaning off any ink you get on the image portion of the stamp before stamping the sentiment below. You would take care not to move either the stamp or the paper in the Stamparatus in between the two inkings.
• The Whisper White cardstock is mounted on some Designer Paper from the Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series in the Annual Catalogue.
• The Silver & Petal Pink Baker's Twine is wrapped twice around these panels and tied in a small bow before they are adhered to the Petal Pink card base. Simple, but so pretty!

The second release Sale-A-Bration products are now available to earn! They are so lovely, especially the Painted Seasons Bundle!

              

Here's a link to the new Second Release Sale-A-Bration Brochure: (Click on the Cover below)

Remember you need to have a purchase of $60 or $120 on one order before tax and shipping to qualify for one of these rewards. The former SAB rewards are still valid.

I am looking for new members for my team. If you live in Canada and don't currently have a demonstrator, I would love to have you be the newest Papercraft Cat! Sale-A-Bration is the absolute best time to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator. Whether you want to work it as a business or whether you just want to take advantage of the discounts as a hobby demo, it's the best deal around! $135 for $225 worth of any current Stampin' Up! product you want from any catalogue, with free shipping! Plus 5 1/2 months (if you join now) of 20% discounts on your orders, the chance to see the new Annual Catalogue and order from it a month ahead of the public and access to a great community of fellow stampers and demos! There are no strings attached. I know it sounds too good to be true, but really there are no hidden catches. If you can't make your minimums, you just lose your demo status. And that's it! No inventory that you need to buy, no financial risk except for the original $135 and you get more than that's worth in product! What are you waiting for? To join my team click HERE. Contact me if you have questions.

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

All The Good Things Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146558] $26.00	All The Good Things Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146555] $37.00	Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series Paper [146284] $15.00	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $10.25	Silver & Petal Pink Baker's Twine [146288] $5.50	Stamparatus [146276] $67.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50