A Card a Day in May--Day 12!!

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I love love this fun card I have to share today! The sun is shining this morning and this card is just perfect for the feelings of happiness the sunshine brings!

Isn’t this Rays of Light stamp set the BEST! It was a must have for me as I can see myself using it for all kinds of fun backgrounds including the one behind this little squirrel from Nuts About You. Side note: so happy this little stamp set is carrying over! I had alot of fun creating with these squirrels and I am so happy to keep stamping with them!

 

I used my favorite coloring technique on the squirrel, ‘lazy watercoloring’! I used Soft Suede and Early Espresso along with a Water Painter to give my squirrel some color!

The grass is actually from the Palms Dies and are cut in Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz card stock and I added a little color to the tips with the coordinating ink and a Water Painter.

I trimmed the Rays of Light stamp set layer down a bit and added a panel of Basic White that I ran through the Stripes 3D folder for some texture.

The sentiment ‘Happy Birthday’ is stamped in Mango Melody and is die cut with the Stylish Shapes dies. I added some vanilla Baker’s Twine and Iridescent Pearl Basic Jewels as a cute little touch!

I think this card is an awesome mashup of different products in our new catalogue! Its has returning favorites plus some new items which is my fav way to craft!

Gumball Goodness!

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Have you had a chance to play with the super fun and cute Gumball Greetings stamp set yet? I love this set as it makes the cutest kids birthday cards…or if I am being honest, what full sized human would not love to get one of these cheerful cards in the mail? I know I would!

This bundle can be found in the January to June Catalogue and it has endless possibilities! You can also add the Gumball Machine Shaker Domes and Frosted Beads Assortment to this cute product bundle. For my card below I turned my gumball machine into a traditional shaker card!

The base of the card is one of my absolute favorite colors, Coastal Cabana, and I layered on top a Flirty Flamingo striped DSP from the Hostess DSP collection, Pattern Party. I have gotten so much use out of this paper stack. It has definitely been one of my top Host picks!

I cut a piece of Basic White as the main panel and used the Gumball Machine dies to create the cut out for the shaker part. The base and top of the gumball machine is stamped on Flirty Flamingo card stock with the coordinating ink color and then die cut. I love the little details in this die set including the opening at the bottom where a gumball could roll out and the embossed details in the machines’s mechanism. I used some Silver Foil paper to cut that out. The dies even cut a little snit where you could add in your coin! So brilliant!

I also love how the die set includes a little die cut strip of hearts. You can use this as a border accent as I have here or to even die cut some bitty baby hearts to add into your shaker.

The easiest way to create a shaker card is to use our Window Sheets and the Adhesive Strips for a perfect seal around your shaker window!

I cut a piece of Basic White to lay behind the shaker window and stamped the gumballs and hearts from the stamp set in Gorgeous Grape and Pool Party. I then added a pinch of the Frosted Beads inside!

The sentiment was stamped twice, once in the base color of Gorgeous Grape and cut with our Layering Circle Dies. The second time was Coastal Cabana and I hand trimmed the word ‘sweetest’ and popped it up on a Dimensional to give the sentiment a fun touch. Adding a little coordinating Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon behind also helps it pop.

And of course no card is complete with out BLING! Our Basic Rhinestones were the perfect addition here!

The Gumball Greetings includes great elements to complete the inside of your project as well. I added a few Coastal Cabana stripes to the Basic White layer. The sentiment is stamped in Gorgeous Grape and layered on a circle of Flirty Flamingo!

And just in case you missed my Artisan Design Team project from January—here it is again! I created two other cute cards with this fun bundle! You can see that the gumball machine is colored with Stampin’ Blends and uses the Gumball Machine Shaker Dome!

I hope you are inspired to give this fun bundle a creative go! I know I have enjoyed playing around with this fun bundle!

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Happy Birthday Summer!

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Yesterday we celebrated a milestone birthday at our house! My daughter Summer turned 13, which means I am the mom to two teenagers now! Honestly, how did that happen so fast?

So obviously I needed to make her a special card for her birthday. Pear Pizzazz was the perfect color to coordinate with her Baby Yoda birthday cake we had made and all of my birthday celebration decor was gold so that is where my color palette came from.

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I wanted to make a shaker card for Summer as something extra fun. The inside ‘shaker’ stars actually came from my wedding, which was 21 years ago! I recently came across some wedding decor I had stored in a box and I had a whole container of these stars which we had used to sprinkle on our head table. I am really glad that I saved them for so long! hahaha! They finally came in handy!

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As you can see, I used the Stitched Rectangles to cut the ‘window’ for my shaker card and layered a Window Sheet behind. I used the Foam Adhesive Strips to elevate the front panel.

On the base of the card I stamped “You Are Amazing” using the retired stamp set of the same name. The sentiment “Happy Birthday” is from Itty BItty Greetings and I used a retired punch that I modified to create just the perfect size for my greeting. I love punches that can work beyond what you initially see or think.

 

I ran the first window layer through the Timber 3D embossing folder before I put the shaker aspect together. I love this folder and find it so versatile.

My 13 is cut from the another retired die set that I will keep forever and ever! Sometimes you need to hang onto the dies that don’t come around very often, you never know when they might come in handy!

Behind the 13 I layered a Basic White circle and some Gold Fine Art Ribbon with some Linen Thread and Gold Metallic Thread. I finished off the front with some Gold Shimmer Gems.

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I was really happy with how this card turned out especially because I felt under pressure to make Summer a really special card to celebrate this milestone birthday!

Strong and Beautiful

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This card is to ALL THE MOMS out there who are MOMING so freaking hard right now. Helping kids with online school, working either at home or from home, being a life CEO to your family, trying to stay sane by stampin’, day drinking, exercising or watching insane amounts of Netflix (or maybe that whole list, as that sounds a lot like my life! hahahaha!)

YOU are like a diamond, we are strong, we are resilient and we are beautiful.

 
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I used the Coastal Weave 3D embossing folder as the background (love it!) and I embossed in white both the sentiment, found in the Strong & Beautiful stamp set, and the flowers found in the Happy Birthday to You Sale-a-bration stamp set. Fun Fact, it was actually my favourite SAB item! The flowers were colored with an Aqua Painter using Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzaz ink. I added a few of the Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins as a finishing touch!

I hope you have enjoyed the first week of cards I have shared so far for my “A Card a Day in May” challenge!