Birthday Candles

Today's card was created using the RG Studio 360 digital set, Party On.  A while back I had combined the candles and sentiment in Word and then saved it to my computer.  Now when I want to use it, I just need to print it and color it.  After using a corner punch on two corners, I used Copic markers to color the candles, tied ribbon around the white cardstock and adhered it to the pattern paper using dimensionals.  Have a great day and keep dry!!

Birthday Blooms

Today's card was created using the flower bouquet image from Stampin' Up's Birthday Blooms stamp set.  As pretty as the flowers are, what is very pretty is the cardstock I used.  It is SU's retired Crisp Cantaloupe, a favorite of mine, which was embossed with the Couture Creations Tied Together embossing folder.   Layering Circle framelits were used to create the white circle with the scalloped circle layered on top.  The circles and the image were all adhered using dimensionals.  The three little pearls look much prettier in person!  They definitely don't look like little splotches!!  Have a great weekend!

           

Happy Hello

A couple of weeks ago I was playing with water coloring with reinkers and rubbing alcohol.  I had a miscellaneous piece of embossed white cardstock so I sprayed it with alcohol and then painted the reinker/alcohol mixture onto the cardstock.  That is what I used for the three Coastal Cabana embossed panels on today's card.  The embossed pattern had a tropical feel, so I added the little hula girl from MFT stamps.  The Coastal Cabana panel to which the "happy" is adhered is a piece of Stampin' Up's Shimmery White cardstock painted with the alcohol/reinker solution.  You cannot see it on the picture, but it glistens as you move the card around. Looks very pretty.  Have a great day!

Happy Tomorrows

Today's card reminds me of the nice weather we have had lately.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's Colorful Seasons stamp set and the chair from the coordinating Seasonal Layers dies.  The sun was created by using the negative space of a punched circle.  I placed that circle where I wanted it on the card and then sponged yellow/orange inks into it.  The blue cardstock is MFT's Blue Breeze color.  It is a very pretty shade of blue, pretty close to SU's retired Bashful Blue.  This is one of those cards that would be easy to make multiples of, even in different colors.  Inside could be a birthday sentiment or congratulatory message, etc.  Have a great day and find yourself a little stampin' time!