Penguins

I made this card a while back for my sis-in-law's birthday - it was my first time using my nestabilities, which I totally love and need to use more often. The stamp is from The Cats Pajamas - Lighting Cupcake. I love those cute little penguins!!!! You'll definitely see them again :-)

Card Details:
Stamps: Lighting Cupcake - TCP
Paper: SU Cream, Ballet Blue, So Saffron, unknown PP from Roberts
Tools: SU brads, Nestabilities
Card # 12

Birthday Card with Sewing

I sewed around the edges of the three panels - very fun!  The flower is from SU!, and the sentiment from PTI - Out of the Box Sentiments.

Apricot is for Girls!

So I originally made this card for a male friend of ours, but my husband informs me that "apricot" is not a male color. I, however, love this color combination - Apricot Appeal and Real Red from Stampin' Up. This card will therefore be going to some other lucky person :-) The stamps are from the Papertrey - Out of the Box set. I'm relatively new to Papertrey stamps, and I really like them! This particular set has so many different images that work together really well. The sentiments just seem to fit right in - it's almost like they planned it that way! ;-)





I'm also trying to make the insides of my cards more interesting so I stamped the present a few times along the bottom. In the picture you can also see the gift tag I've included with the card.



Card Details:
Stamps: Out of the Box - PTI
Paper: SU Apricot Appeal, Real Red, Whisper White
Tools: scallop punch from SU
Card # 19

So this is the card that I made for my niece's 1st birthday. I used a sketch challenge from a few months back, but can't remember which one. Hope you enjoy!


Card Details:
Stamps: Birthday Best - SU
Paper: SU Groovy Guava, Whisper White, Floral paper from Matchmakers
Tools: scallop and circle punches from SU
Card # 18

Balloons and Dots!

Hello all!!

I absolutely loooove how this card turned out :-) It seemed like it was going to be a bit plane - I'm not used to using white as my card base - but I love the way it came together.

The balloons are embossed in black and colored with SU! markers to match the polka dots in the designer paper. Hope you like!







Supplies:
Stamps: SU Birthday Best and Short and Sweet
Paper: SU Whisper white, Ballet Blue, assorted patterned paper
Other: SU word punch, SU black embossing powder
Card # 3

Birthday Thank Yous

I made these cards as birthday thank you notes for a co-worker of mine. He had thrown a surprise party for his wife, and knew that she would want to send out thank you's to the guests - how cool is that!


I stamped the present image in the same color ink as the main card, and then colored them with the coordinating color to bring out the presents. Even though I like how all of these turned out, I particularly like the Ruby Red version here, because it's a color combo I haven't tried before. Plus I really liked how the coloring turned out. I used a blender pen with the Groovy Guava Ink from Stampin' Up for a fun water-coloring effect.



Here is the sentiment inside the card, using the "thank you" from the Short and Sweet set from SU. Once I change the sentiment, it would be great for a regular birthday card as well!





Supplies:
Stamps: Something to Celebrate (SU, retired 2006), Short and Sweet (Inside sentiment)
Paper: SU Ruby Red, Groovy Guava, Elegant Eggplant, Pale Plum, Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery, and assorted DP from Michaels.
Ink: SU Ruby Red, Elegant Eggplant, Ballet Blue classic ink, and SU markers in Pale Plum and Green Galore
Other: Ticket punch from SU, blender pen
Card # 13, Card # 14, Card # 15

Swirly Birthday

This is a simple but really fun birthday card I made to have on hand. I love the texture you get from the embossed swirls. I used red and blue here because I wanted something that would work for both guys and gals, but I think it would look great in other colors as well.



Here's the inside of the card:













Card Details:
Stamps: SU Birthday Best and Happy Everything
Paper: Red and Blue
Other: Red ribbon, Cuttlebug swirls embossing folder
Card # 2

Cute Birthday

These are fun little birthday cards using the "You're Neat" stamp set from Stampin' Up. They we're actually really fun to color. The inside says "Happy Birthday" I made a set of four of these - I think they'd be great for the little ones!





Card Details:
Stamps: You're Neat, Warmest Regards - SU
Paper: SU Soft Sky, Pretty in Pink, pink polka dots from Michaels
Accessories: Soft Sky double stitched ribbon SU
Tools: Corner Rounder
Card # 6