Archive for Birthday
Birthday Gift Bag Card
Posted: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Comments
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
Posted: Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 | CommentsCan’t view the video? CLICK HERE to view it on my site (it won’t go through via email).
I’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).
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?!
Seaside Birthday Card
Posted: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Comments
I 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).
The 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.
Crazy for Cupcakes Birthday Card
Posted: Friday, May 15th, 2009 | Comments
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.
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.
