Birthday Card Ideas from the Stamping Cruise
November 10, 2016
Hi! and thank you for joining me today! I have a cute (cute cute cute!) Happy Birthday card idea to share with you today!!! Remember that stamping cruise I just went on in October? Well, this was one of the darling cards we made during our 18 hours of crafting time!!
This birthday card features the Stylized Birthday (single stamp) from pg 16 of the Stampin' Up! 2016/2017 annual catalog (#141828) and one of my favorites, the Writing Notes background stamp (pg 124, #1388954 / 138664). I love any lined paper or graph paper, so this stamp is right up my alley!
When creating a card on white cardstock, you'll want to make sure you use the THICK Whisper White cardstock (#140272) so that it has nice stability.
As you can see below, we stamped the marvelous Falling Flowers floral stamp set in Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay and Pumpkin Pie on Whisper White cardstock, then die cut all the pieces with the matching May Flowers Framelits. At first I thought it seemed like it would be a lot of work, but it's only a couple pieces per card and it makes such a big difference to have the pieces die cut, doesn't it!?? I love it!
You can SAVE 10% by buying the stamp set and framelits together (it's called a BUNDLE). See it HERE, or on pg 127 in the current annual catalog.
After stamping the flowers and leaves, we just blended the color with a Blender Pen... just "color over" the stamped image while it's still just a little wet and it just blends the colors perfectly without the need for any more ink.
I embellished the centers of my flowers with the gold Metallic Enamel shapes, which enhanced this nice fall color combo!
The polkadot piece of Bermuda Bay paper in the background is found in the Designer Series paper pack / Brights, #138434... there are actually 4 patterns of Bermuda Bay paper in that pack and if you look at the first photo in this blog post, you'll see I used all 4 patterns :)
Jenn (the crafting cruise organizer) designed 10 cards for us to make, and we made four of each, so if you do the math, that's 40 cards that we created in addition to all the other projects!!! You can see more info here!
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Posted by Patty Bennett on November 10, 2016 at 12:02 AM in 2015/2016 Stampin' UP! catalog, 2016 Stamping Crafting Cruise, Big Shot - Framelits, Birthday ideas, Designer Series Papers, Stampin' Up! cards & projects | Permalink
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Comments (3)
Good morning Patty,,,,,, I love this cards. I never bought the Writing Notes Stamp because I never thought I would use it but it looks so cute on your card.I like how you colored in the one flower.... Thanks for sharing and looking forward to see all the projects you did on the cruise. Have a great day.
Posted by: Mary Ann Ely | November 10, 2016 at 04:46 AM
This card is so fun! I never really thought not to actually put the sentiment on the lines but staggered like you did. Then the random flowers remind me of doodles like I tend to do. I have a mini notebook paper stamp with lines on it but I think the one you used would be better. I love that font they used and I do have the thanks stamp like it. Sometimes a card will just call to me and this is one of them. Thanks for sharing it. Looking forward to seeing more from your cruise.
Posted by: Chris R. from Iowa | November 10, 2016 at 05:58 PM
Such a happy, happy card. Would make anyone's day.
Posted by: Wendie | November 11, 2016 at 07:40 AM