Waiting for my candles to come...

I've been trying to decide if I need the new set, Big Birthday Candle, and in the meantime, I tried to find a workaround. These "candles" are made from the invitation information stamp in the Eat Cake set.

I stamped the image, and then I trimmed it down to make my candle bases.

I don't know ... how do you think it turned out? Should I get the actual candle set? :)

Birthday One-Sheet-Wonders

These 10 cards were based around one sheet of Stampin' Up!'s Ginger Blossom designer paper. Because birthday cards are the most popular cards at my stamp camps, I think I may do a OSW class with these cards. At the bottom of this post is the graphic showing the measurements that I used for the designer paper for these cards. Two of the cards used two slips of designer paper, rather than just one (they show on the template at the bottom of this post in different colors). The designer paper is fun for OSW cards because you're not just stuck with one choice of patterned paper as a focal point and instead can use either the front OR the back for different looks.

You can click on any picture for a larger view.

One:

Used silver brads, River Rock stitched ribbon, words from Happy Everything, and flowers from Simply Said.

Two:

Used flowers from Doodle This, Ruby Red brad, River Rock stitched ribbon, punch tab, and "for you" from Happy Everything.

Three (uses two pieces of dp):

Used silver brads, River Rock stitched ribbon, and 2-step stamped flowers from Bud Basics.

Four:

Used silver brad, scallop punch and 1/8", 1-1/4" and 1-3/8" circle punches, hemp twine, flower stamp from Bud Basics, and "happy birthday" stamp from Think Happy Thoughts.

Five:

Used "celebrate" stamp from Celebrate Everything, silver brads, 1/2" circle punch, 1/8" circle punch, Word Window punch.

Six (later added hemp twine circled around the main image and knotted in front):

Used Happy Everything and flower from Doodle This stamps.

Seven:

Used Scallop punch-out cut in half (see page 3 of Spring-Summer IBC for inspiration piece), Artfully Asian flower stamp, twill tape, Crystal Effects applied after watercoloring the leaves.

Eight (uses 2 pieces of dp):

Used Sincere Salutations stamp for birthday phrase and twill tape with unraveled ends.

Nine:

Used silver brads to ground the faux-belly band and stamp from Holidays & Wishes set.

Ten:

Used twill tape and Groovy Guava stitched ribbon tied with hemp twine. Birthday stamp is from Fun & Fast Notes - watercolored and then used Crystal Effects on candle tips, frosting, and platter.

Measurements:


Please feel free to use this template and my examples, but if you copy them exactly, please give me credit. Thanks!

Celebrate Time Well Spent

Still playing with the new Time Well Spent stamps. I've seen large flower images with ribbon stems before, so it seemed perfect to give this large bloom a crimped paper stem, with a pair of grosgrain leaves that I trimmed to look more like leaves. Then, when I was looking for inspiration on coloring in the flower, I saw the coloring on this flower and was inspired by the new catalog and a picture that they had on p. 17, which also has a (textured) paper and ribbon stem. I stamped the flower in brown stazon and colored in around the edges with Regal Rose using an aqua painter and ink, and then filled in on the top-most petals with Pretty and Pink very lightly, again with an aqua painter and ink.

The ribbon through the button was very easy to put through because with a larger button, you usually get a larger hole to work with. I just trimmed the ribbon at a steep angle and threaded it through. It's not knotted in the back - instead it was finished off using a mini glue dot so that it didn't get too bulky.

Thanks for looking and happy Friday!!

A-pear-ently I'm out of practice ...

This set, Infinite Goodness, was another stamping mojo reinvigoration effort. I fiddled with it a lot, and I'm not sure I love it, but I am at least satisfied with it and feel like it turned out as a nice masculine card.

The little buckle is from a We R Memory Keepers pewter set. The ribbon is Stampin' Up! 3/8" chocolate grosgrain ribbon as is all the cardstock. I covered the pear in Crystal Effects to give it more texture. I did realize that I really don't like the Wild Wasabi color very much in doing this project - yech. It's too green for me, or something.

Bright blossoms

This is another Time Well Spent card. The white cardstock in the project is Stampin' Up!'s Shimmery White and the flowers were stamped in Stazon and colored in with markers (which move so nicely over the Shimmery cardstock). This card continues the habit of no hoarding and includes some cool hardware from the same We R set that I've featured recently. The ribbon is fed through a punched slit in the spine of the card and it's retired Regal Rose 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.

Then, there wasn't quite enough shimmer/glittery goodness, so I colored over the flower centers with my Sakura glitter pen. Otherwise, it's a simple card, but I like the colors and layers and how they all worked together.