Celebrating a 75th Birthday with "It's a Science"

Hello crafty friends!

I do hope you've had a great week this week of Thanksgiving!

I've been quite busy with many other things going on and haven't been able to publish many posts lately. However, I do want to share a special card that I just created yesterday for my father-in-law's 75th birthday.

This card features the It's a Science stamp set on a fun-fold card. My FAVORITE part was the "foam" coming out of the flask that goes perfectly with the sentiment. 

Cardmaking Tips:

• Finished card size - 6" x 6"
• fun fold card measurements were CASED from Mitosu Crafts
• I only used 2 pieces of DSP (5-3/4" x 3-3/4") for the larger areas of the card.
• Color Combo: Misty Moonlight, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Granny Apple Green and Coastal Cabana
• To create the main background, stamp the cells and bubbles images onto a piece of watercolor paper with Daffodil Delight ink and Coastal Cabana ink. Alternate those colors using the two different images, being sure to clean your stamps in between.
• Mix together some water from your water painter and a drop of Daffodil Delight ink on a small clear block then brush it directly onto the stamped images. Repeat the same with the Coastal Cabana ink.
• Cut a 1/8" x 3" strip of Basic Gray cardstock, adhere towards the bottom of the main background piece as your table top.
• Stamp the flasks image onto a piece of Thick Basic White cardstock and color with the following Stampin' Blends: Misty Moonlight, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Granny Apple Green 
• fussy cut the flasks and adhere to the table top with liquid glue, except for the round bottom flask.
• As for the round bottom flask, I chose to use some of my retired Snowfall Accents Puff Paint to make it look like the liquid was foaming out of the flask. Then adhere the flask to the card front using a couple of dimensionals.
• Use the same paper that was created for the background image to cut out the paper on the clipboard and the small balloon.
• The sentiment was cut out using the die from the Gorgeously Made dies.
• The balloons were stamped and cut out using the Beautiful Balloons Bundle.

Cardmaking Supplies:

All the supplies used for this project are shown below, except for the Snowfall Accents puff paint which is retired.

I sure appreciate you stopping by today! I hope you are inspired to get more use out of your Snowfall Accents puff paint with today's project !

Until next time ... 

Happy 4th!

Not everyone can say that they have friends whose birthday falls on the 4th of July.
In my life, I have 2 and although my dad's birthday doesn't fall on the 4th, rather the 7th, this still calls for many celebrations at the beginning of this month.

I wanted to create a birthday card for these special people in my life and combine it with the U.S.A patriotic colors: red, white, and blue.

In Stampin' UP! language it's Real Red, Whisper White, and Night of Navy.

I'm pleased with how this card turned out. I sure hope that the recipients will enjoy their card as well.

My Tips:

While the card front is fairly simple, I did develop a quicker way of placing all the stars you see on the bottom of the inside card as shown below.

• I used the star border punch (retired) for the stars and punched out a combination of real red and night of navy stars.
• run a strip of fast fuse adhesive along the bottom edge of the inside card to make sure that the stars adhere to it.
• pick up the stars with a sticky note then place it on the strip of adhesive.
• After all the stars are in place, use a dry brush and place baby powder on the places where the adhesive is exposed to keep it from sticking to the card front.

Supplies Used

• Retired Items:
• Balloon Bash Stamp Set (Occasions 2015)
• Confetti Stars Border Punch (2016-2017 AC)

Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$9.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

$6.50

Sparkle Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.50

An ode to "sweet sorbet"

With only 5 days left in Sale-a-bration, I must admit that the Sweet Sorbet designer paper is going to be my most missed! 

 So, here's to you, Sweet Sorbet....

These cards were made super quick thanks to my upline, Denise Sullivan. She had all our supplies ready and cut out for us! 

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Until next time.....

 

Stampin' UP! birthday

This past week has been hectic with all the personal stuff we have going on in our lives, plus I got sick, and had to get some card swaps put together, then work on stamp club projects...........it's a never-ending story, I suppose. I still enjoy having projects to make, don't get me wrong.

With all that said, we did, however, have a great time of stamping this past Saturday! We managed to put together a couple of quick and simple projects that only took us half the time it usually does. 

 Supplies Used:

• cardstock: whisper white, daffodil delight, gumball green, silver glimmer paper
• DSP: gingham garden
• inks: island indigo, pear pizzaz, daffodil delight
• stamps: label love, a fitting occasion, gorgeous grunge
• punches: artisan label, 1" square (to flag the end), scallop edge border, 1 " circle
 

This fun & simple Lolli cover was cased from Carrie Cudney's beautiful project. See her video below the project recipe.

Supplies Used:

• cardstock: wisteria wonder, bermuda bay, whisper white
• inks: bermuda bay, wisteria wonder, melon mambo, daffodil delight
• stamps: make a wish, itty bitty banners
• framelits: apothecary art, itty bitty banners
• ribbon: white 1/4" stitched grosgrain ribbon, white bakers twine (used to tie the cover on the lollipop stick)
• stripes embossing folder & Big Shot 

Thank you for stopping by! See you again real soon!