Tagged: congratulations card

February 27, 2013

A Sentimental Journey Island Indigo Phone Booth Card

This Sentimental Journey Island Indigo phone booth card was one of the first that I made with this set. After stamping the phone booth and tearing the paper I did a little sponging and added some hash marks with the Island Indigo marker to resemble the lines in the stamp. I wasn’t sure if I liked it so I’ve been slow about showing it here. 🙂

I used two Sale-a-bration goodies in this card: the Sentimental Journey stamp set, of course, and the ribbon from the Sycamore Street ribbon & button pack.

Here’s the card recipe:

(All supplies from Stampin’ Up! Click on the links below for product details & ordering.)

SAB: Feeling Sentimental Stamp Set, Sycamore Street ribbon & button pack

Birds of a Feather designer series paper

Naturals White cardstock

Island Indigo stamp pad

In Color Markers 2011-13

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Enjoy! Julie

February 21, 2013

Sentimental Journey Antique Phone Booth Stamp

I’m back with another Sale-a-bration Feeling Sentimental greeting card. And once again, I think the vintage stamps in this set are marvelous including this old-time phone booth. I stamped the phone booth on a Top Note shape, die-cut from black cardstock with the Big Shot Die-cutting Machine. I stamped it in White Craft ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.

I centered the Sale-a-bration Sycamore Street Rich Razzleberry button with a rhinestone and adhered it to the card with glue dots. Celebrate was stamped in black and quickly punched out with the Extra-large Oval punch.

Here’s the card recipe:

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SAB: Feeling Sentimental Stamp Set, Sycamore Street ribbon & button pack

White Craft Pad	Black StazOn	Basic Black cardstock	Whisper White cardstock	Rich Razzleberry cardstock
Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper	Top Note Die	Big Shot Die-cutting Machine	White Embossing Powder	Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
Extra-Large Oval Punch	White Bakers Twine	Rhinestones

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The teeny little scallop peeking out from the bottom was punched out with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.

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Get your Feeling Sentimental stamp set today and enjoy making simply elegant cards to honor birthdays and other special occasions to celebrate!

Enjoy! Julie

February 20, 2013

Bloomin’ Marvelous Color Chalk Butterflies

This little butterfly number features two exclusive Sale-a-bration products the Bloomin’ Marvelous Stamp Set & Vine Street Embossing Folder. The card base is made with Crumb Cake cardstock, embossed with the Vine Street Embossing Folder and splattered with a little Melon Mambo reinker.

To create the butterfly panel, I started with Basic Black cardstock and rubbed it lightly with the Whisper White Craft Pad. After heat setting the craft ink, I prepared the panel with the Embossing Buddy and then stamped a couple of butterflies with VersaMark.

I heat embossed the first set of butterfles with the Melon Mambo embossing powder, then stamped a couple of more butterflies, heat embossed that set with Tangerine Tango embossing powder. And then finally stamped a couple of more butterflies and heat embossed with the Pool Party embossing powder

One butterfly was stamped on a scrap of basic black, heat embossed, punched out with the Bitty Butterfly punch and blinged up with a little rhinestone.

If you look closely, you’ll see that I scored a couple of lines on the top and bottom edges of the butterfly panel with the Simply Scored Scoring Tool. I also ran the edges across the versamark pad and heat embossed it with Tangerine Tango embossing powder.

Here’s the card recipe:

(All supplies from Stampin’ Up! Click on the links below for product details & ordering.)

SAB: Bloomin’ Marvelous Stamp Set & Vine Street Embossing Folder

Crumb Cake cardstock	Whisper White cardstock	Basic Black cardstock	White Craft Pad	VersaMark	Melon Mambo stamp pad
Heat Tool	Simply Scored Scoring Tool	Tangerine Tango Embossing Powder	Pool Party Embossing Powder	Melon Mambo Embossing Powder	Bitty Butterfly punch
Decorative Label Punch	Black Taffeta Ribbon

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I hope you enjoyed this take on the chalkboard techinique using colored embossing powders. I just love the SAB Bloomin’ Marvelous stamp set and all the possibilities with the butterflies.

Enjoy! Julie

February 10, 2013

Family Sunday: A Stampin’ Up! Blue Ribbon Congratulations

Recently we’ve had some great things to celebrate in our family: son James earned the Eagle Scout rank in Boy Scouts, son Dallin called home to report his great grades in college so far this semester, son-in-law Joel recieved an award at work and niece’s husband Weston took first place in an interviewing contest at the university. So I got busy making some masculine congratulation cards, which is quick and easy to do using the Stampin’ Up! Blue Ribbon stamp set!

Yay! Congrats everyone for a job well done!

Here’s some more pics of the Blue Ribbon cards.

The Large Scallop, 1-1/4″ Circle and 1-3/8″ Circle punches make this project super fast.

The card base is Sahara Sand and the ‘blue ribbon’ is Stampin’ Up! color’s Midnight Muse, Sahara Sand and Cajun Craze.

Stampin' Up! Blue Ribbon Stamp set — Stampin’ Up! Blue Ribbon Stamp Set
clear-mount #125981 or wood-mount #125979

Enjoy! Julie

January 4, 2013

Congratulations on Your Graduation!

My son-in-law Chris recently graduated from college! A fantastic accomplishment, and we are so happy for him and his family! This is the card that I created to acknowledge this great achievement. I kept it masculine with earthy colors and images.

To create this masculine congratulations card, I started with a card base of Natural Composition Specialty paper cut 4-1/4″ x 11″ and scored at 5-1/2″. The Natural Composition dsp has a cardstock weight so it’s perfect for a card base. I paid special attention to the orientation of the embossed lines of this paper before I trimmed the card base out.

The leaves stamp is from the Summer Silhouettes stamp set and I stamped the left side first in Summer Starfruit and then in Always Artichoke.

I used the strip of paper left over from cutting out the card base to create this tag. I stamped “congratulations” from the Sweet Sentiments stamp set on the backside of the embossed paper and then punched the ends of the tag with the Curly Label punch. I added a bit of Linen Thread to the tag before adhering it to the card base with dimensionals.