Birthday Tweetings My Favorite Things!

Hi there!  The card I'm sharing today is for the My Favorite Things 10 Year Birthday Celebration, they've added an extra challenge for this month (other than their color & sketch challenge) in which you are to create a card using 10 elements. For example a card that uses 10 colors, 10 die cut pieces or for a 10th birthday or anniversary card.

For my card I used the fun MFT's Tweet Friends stamp set and made a birthday card.  I knew I wanted to use 10 of the bird images from the Tweet Friends set so I used Jennifer McGuire's fantastic time saver tip.  Below you can see the steps I took in doing this but be sure to pop over to Jennifer's blog to see this idea in action and her great video.
 I grouped a bunch of the bird stamps onto an acrylic block, careful to leave space around each stamp. Then I stamped them onto cardstock and arranged the dies on top of each image. Once the dies were in place, I used Press'n Seal (yes the great stuff you use in the kitchen) and laid a piece over the dies and pressed.   When you lift up the piece of Press'n Seal your dies come with it and you're able to reuse this piece again and again which enabled me to stamp and die cut a whole flock of these fun birds to use. So much thanks to Jennifer for sharing this idea and her wonderful talent! For the background on my card, I used one of the bird cage images and randomly stamped it onto black cardstock using Versa ink and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.  Then I arranged and adhered my birds which I colored using Copic markers onto my black embossed card front.  I die cut two of the bird cages from white cardstock and glued them together and adhered that along with my sentiment banner and a popped up bird to the center of my card front. Thank you for stopping by!

Kindness - (CTD400)

Hello friends!  I hope all of you that celebrate had a fun Fourth of July weekend.  Today I'm sharing my card for this week's 400th Color Throwdown Challenge!  Can you believe it, 400 Color Challenges?  Wow, that's a lot of great color combos and cards created, but most of all FUN!

For my card, I went with a somewhat clean and simple look I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Choose Joy for my sentiment and I used the Don't Forget to Write stamp set and dies along with an impressions plate for my embossed background. For my flowers I used pure poppy and simply chartreuse ink and did some ink blending using the chartreuse ink on the circle I stamped my sentiment on to make it pop.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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Happy 4th of July!

Happy Fourth of July to everyone in the USA!!!  Each year I try and make my mom a red, white and blue birthday card because her birthday is the day after the fourth but we usually end up celebrating on the fourth.  This year I used the Papertrey Ink Don't Forget to Write kit to create her card. I used the stencils from the kit to stencil the envelope and used the colors pure poppy, new leaf and pacific point (SU) along with some pure poppy designer paper.  I used some Copic markers in yellow to color the centers of the flowers and added some Wink of Stella glitter pen on some of the flowers for some sparkle.  I sponged some pacific point ink onto the center rectangle and die cut two of the "Sending" and glued them together before adhering it with foam tape.  This was such a fun card to make with the pieces of from this kit!

I hope you have a safe and happy holiday!

Party Animals - (CTD399)

Hi there!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card I used the fun Lawn Fawn stamp set, Party Animal along with the coordinating dies.  The detail work is in the little animals and accessory pieces.  I colored the bear, birds, party hats and cake using Copic markers and for the balloons I ended up paper piecing from some scrap paper I had from my stash.  I die cut a square of white cardstock and a quarter of a circle from chocolate chip cardstock for a hill and arranged my scene, popping up the two birds and birthday cake.  I added the square scene I created to a panel of pure poppy stripped designer paper which I die cut using a stitched rectangle die and under that I added a white scalloped panel.  I stamped my happy birthday sentiment on a strip of white cardstock and adhered that across the lower portion of my card. For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Kara Vrabel - June Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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