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Sweet Scoops Birthday Card

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010


I just LOVE this new Summer Mini Catalog set ‘Sweet Scoops’ featuring ice cream cones and ice cream scoops as well as a greeting stamp, sprinkles and a cherry on top!

I added the pink beads as 3D sprinkles for effect.

This 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 square card is embellished with the square scalloped edge die for the Big Shot machine and a 4×4 square of Razzleberry Lemonade designer series paper.

The accessories that I used were as follows:

Set(s): Sweet Scoops (#117078 Wood, #120078 Clear)

Accessories:
5 ¼ x 10 ½ Whisper White cardstock
5 ½ x 5 ½ Melon Mambo cardstock
4 x 4 inches DSP ‘Razzleberry Lemonade’
3 x 3 inches Melon Mambo (for punching)
3 x 3 Crushed Curry (for punching)
4 ¼ x 2 ¾ Whisper White (for stamping/punching)
1 inch x 5 ¼ inch Crushed Curry
¾ x 5 ¼ inch Whisper White cardstock
15 inches Wide Grosgrain Ribbon ‘Vanilla’
Beads Duo “Pink”
Sizzix Scalloped Square Bigz Clear Die #115950
Sizzix Big Shot & clear cutting pads
Large Oval punch, Scallop Circle punch, Scallop Square punch
Inks:  Melon Mambo, Soft Suede ink, Glue Dots


Last Day of Sale-A-Bration!

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

I can’t believe that the end of Sale-A-Bration is here… kind’ve sneaked up on me–how about you?

This adorable (and easy) money holder birthday card was made with the FREE Sale-A-Bration set called ‘Happy Moments’ #118664 wood, #119125 clear mount.

I stamped the ‘outline’ image of the gifts on the Razzleberry Lemonade designer series paper twice… once on front and once on the back and cut out two gifts to make them look ‘wrapped’ in our designer paper.

If you missed the memo these last three months, you get one SAB set or accessory with each $50 in catalog purchases.

Details of this card:
4 x 11 inch Melon Mambo cardstock (scored at 3 ¼ x 8 inches)
2 x 3 ½ White cardstock
2 ½ x 3 ¾ Crushed Curry cardstock
Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper
– 3 ¾ x 2 ½ striped designer paper
– 3 x 2 ½ tiny yellow/orange floral design
Silver brads, 1 1/16th inch circle punch
Eyelet border punch
1 3/8 inch Jumbo circle punch
Crushed Curry polka-dotted grosgrain ribbon
Melon Mambo marker

You can view the Sale-A-Bration mini catalog HERE… and remember to either place your order online or contact me!

Birthday Gift Bag Card

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

This is a fun birthday card idea that I saw similarly done a few years ago.

It incorporates quite a few punches and the colors are taken from Stampin’ Up!’s  psychedelic looking designer paper ‘Kaleidoscope’.

The ‘gift bags’ were made from the coordinating 1 1/4 inch jumbo square punch and the 1 3/8 inch jumbo square punch, the handles are natural hemp.  I used a tiny square of white tissue paper for the tissue inside the gift bags.

I like to use the Modern Label punch over the Designer Label punch for the greetings.  The ‘On Your Birthday’ set is FULL of greetings including ‘belated’ greetings, and many of them fit on our punches.

Kaleidoscope Designer Paper Bermuda Bay cardstock
Pumpkin Pie cardstock  
Bermuda Bay ink pad
Whisper White cardstock
Kraft cardstock
Natural hemp
white tissue paper
1 ¼ inch Jumbo Square punch
1 3/8 inch Jumbo Square punch
Designer Label punch (#107590)
Modern Label punch (#116630)Sticky Strip, Dimensionals™
Eyelet Border punch (#113692)

Bigz XL Die ‘Look Here’ Birthday Pop Up Card

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Can’t view the video? CLICK HERE to view it on my site (it won’t go through via email).

Stampin' Up! 'On A Pedestal' Birthday SetI’m having fun with the Bigz XL Die ‘Pop Up Look Here’ die for the Sizzix Big Shot… so much so that I wanted to share a short video clip on putting it together (for those of us who won’t read the directions that came with it!).  It is very difficult for me to publish a video.  Besides from the obvious (being a video challenged individual), I am terribly ‘Type A’ person (READ: it must be perfect) before I will publish it.  I need to let go of that (I’m working on it!).

Check out my ‘Video Channel’ AmyTV for all my videos!  Be kind in your feedback!

The card was made with Melon Mambo (pink) and Crushed Curry (yellow) and the Razzleberry Lemonade designer series papers.  The sets are the new ‘On a Pedestal’ set (#113814, set of 7) and the (dormant) Big Birthday Candle.

Immediately below are two small shots of the cards and under that a cool slideshow of the card at several angles (click here if you can’t see the slideshow).

Birthday Pop Up Look Here cardBirthday Pop Up Look Open

I hope you enjoy this… I had a LOT of fun.  I am designing a Christmas pop up card for a ‘Christmas In July’ workshop I am doing on Saturday evening for one of my FAVORITE customers.  Okay, don’t you need a ‘Christmas’ themed in-home workshop?  Contact me if you are in the So. Chester Co. PA/northeast MD/DE area!

So… how did you like it?!

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Categories : 3D Project, Birthday, Video, blog

Seaside Birthday Card

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

SeasideI just absolutely love this set of seashells… and unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be being replaced in the new catalog…

Seaside #113512 features 5 shells and is $25.95.  You can view the set online in my post last week.

The card is whisper white and the pink toile print is from Bella Birds designer series paper (also retiring June 30th).

SeasideDetailThe body of the card is Bordering Blue and sponged with  White Crafter’s ink.  The shells on pink paper were embossed in white and sponged in Pink Pirouette.

The conch shell was embossed in white on Whisper White paper and sponged with daubers in Pink Pirouette and Bordering Blue inks.

The greeting and other shells were stamped in White crafter’s ink.

I earned Stampin’ Up!’s cruise as of last Friday and believe me, it has been *years* since I’ve earned it on them amount of sales.  So, the good new is that even in this tough economic times, my sales are higher than they’ve been in years.

Isn’t that one more reason to consider direct sales as a business?  You’ll LOVE your boss and you can’t be fired.

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Categories : Birthday

Crazy for Cupcakes Birthday Card

Friday, May 15th, 2009

cupcakemoneyholder

This is a money/gift card holder that I’ve done in the past but with an adorable ‘old fashioned soda shoppe’ type exterior!

I have seen the Candy Lane Designer Series Paper (#113980, $9.95) used as a window overhang like this and decided that it would be the perfect cover for a birthday money gift.

Click to Download Money Holder Template

I had a lot of feedback about my post the other day (See: Rose Accordion Bookmark Card) and the dimensions for it.  I have updated that post to include more details, click here to view it again.

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Crazy for Cupcakes Gift Card holder

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This is one of the birthday sets that is 20% off this month for Stampin’ Up!’s birthday sale!  I let the DSP Bella Rose determine the color of the stamped images (I had a bunch of scraps left over from cards I was making).

Crazy for Cupcakes Gift Card Holder

Crazy for Cupcakes insideIt’s a *very* simple gift card holder to make and it took a VERY small amount of the designer series paper… in fact, I used the wide grosgrain to hide the fact that they don’t quite meet up under the ribbon!

The background (Chocolate Chip) is 4 x 4 1/2 inches and the So Saffron is 3 3/4 x 11 inches scored at 4 1/4 and 8 1/2 inches (folded up and punched with a half circle and held closed with mini silver brads).

The front of this gift holder is only 3 3/4 x 4 inches, so you can literally use scraps for it (as well as the punched elements again are from scraps).

This is easy enough for kids to make for their friends.  I let my kids make this type of thing on ‘rainy days’ and use them for parties they go to (and then they are made already!).

Holiday Warning – Don’t let this happen to you…

Friday, September 5th, 2008

The holidays are coming and you don’t want him to make a mistake that can cause  holiday unhappiness!  Believe me when I tell you that I’m thinking of only your happiness here when I suggest my online Gift Registry.  

Your love one(s) will receive a message from me (handstamped if you give me their mailing address), assuring them of their place as ‘most important’ in your life’ if they are generous with what you would most enjoy as a gift–stamping stuff!  I can ship the product anywhere they would like (so you don’t steal the box by accident and hide it from him) keeping it a big wonderful secret! Read More→