How Did You Get So Old?!

Hello!  It is Lisa here with you today and I have a sarcastically funny Birthday card to share with you that I made using a mix of stamp sets...

To create this card I started by stamping my sentiment from the Snarky Birthday Sentiments set in the upper left corner.  I then stamped the dinosaur and crutch from the Get Well Critter Stamp Set on the same panel and die cut the bottom at an angle.  After I colored my little scene in with various Copic Markers I decided he needed one more thing... a birthday hat!  So I grabbed my Party Pals set and stamped a little hat to cut out and add to the top of his little head.

I find it so fun to mix and match old and new sets, because you never know where it might lead!

Happy Crafting!
Lisa

29 & Holding

Good morning everyone! It's Cassie here, and I've got a fun card for you all today. Today's card is especially fun for me because it's my dad's birthday card! Today is his actual birthday-what better way to celebrate than a blog post! :)

Here's a look at todays card

This card was fun to make. I love pulling pieces from past sets to put together an adorable scene. I started, as I often do, with a stitched rectangle card base. I also die cut a stitched heart from some Neenah Solar White cardstock. I took the (adorably sweet) sloth from Sloth Hang Out set and stamped him on the center of the heart. I made sure that I didn't ink up the ends of the tree limb because I wanted to extend them to the end of the heart, which I did with a Copic multiliner. I applied Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to the edges of the heart with a blender, and Chipped Sapphire to the card base panel. I love these colors together! And, my dad's favorite color is blue so it's perfect in that aspect too.

After the sloth and tree limb were colored, I stamped and colored a bunch of the presents from the I Moose You stamp set and a birthday hat from the Party Pals stamp set. I popped the heart up with some foam tape after splattering some white paint on the card base. Then I attached the present balloons and drew lines for the strings. The final touch was to stamp the sentiment from the Snarky Sentiments set. I love that it says 29 & holding, with a picture of a sloth hanging onto a tree. Too cute! I also added a couple white accents with my white gelly roll pen.

That's it for today! I hope you liked the card. There are so many fun ways to pair the Snarky Sentiments set with loads of the other stamps sets- I can't wait to try more combos! Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again with another card!

Emboss Resist Background featuring Birthday Bash

Hello and happy Thursday!  It's Tara and for today's project I am using the brand new Birthday Bash and Party Pals stamp sets from the August release!  These sets go together so well and I thought it would be fun to combine them, along with the Happy Moments sentiment set, to make a birthday card for my sweet niece!

I just love the scattering of stars image that is in the Birthday Bash set so I decided to heat emboss it all over a piece of Distress watercolor cardstock using some clear glittery embossing powder.  Then, using Distress Inks, I was able to add color over the clear embossing and leave behind a bright and cheerful starry background! And it's glittery!  

I colored the little girl from the Party Pals set using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and fussy cut her out.  Next, I used white embossing powder to heat emboss my sentiment - the big scripty happy from the Happy Moments set and the birthday from the Party Pals set.

Once all of my elements were on the card I added a few sequins and some Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen and this card is all done!  So much fun to create! 

Thank you all so much for joining me and I'll see you next time!  Bye!

Intro to Party Pals and Banner Sentiments

Hello everyone,

I am back and excited to introduce two more sets from our August release.  Here are the two sets that I used for my card and a little sneak peak of a brand new die set that you will see soon. 

                                

For my card today I decided to use an ivory card stock for the base and front panel. I die cut the front panel and popped it up on foam tape and added it to the base.  I die cut the little banner flags from watercolour card stock so it would match the card base.  

I used the adorable party hats from the Party Pals set and the sentiment from the Banner Sentiments set and heat embossed them with white embossing power.  I then took my Zig Clean Colour markers and added colour in rainbow order, which goes along with our August Instagram Challenge - Rainbow. I popped the banners up on foam tape and added them to the middle of the card.  

 That's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)