Birthday Duo - March Stamp Camp Cards

Two more cards I made for my March Stamp Camp.  My theme for the camp was Birthday Extravaganza and we did 10 birthday cards of various styles and techniques.  For these 2, I chose to do a variation on a theme using the Birthday Bakery hostess set.  I did one very feminine and one masculine to demonstrate the versatility of the SU stamp sets. 

Supply List
Card Stock:  Naturals White, Pretty in Pink, Baja Breeze,
Designer Series Paper:  Greenhouse Gala
Tools:  Eyelet Border Punch, Circle Punches (1-1/4" and 1-3/8")
Accessories:  Ribbon

FB DIVAS (OBG) BLOG HOP - Sports Emboss Resist Birthday Card

This month's DIVAS Facebook Group oldies but goodies blog hop.   So you should have arrived here here from Linda's blog The Stamper's Touch

The challenge for this hop is to make a card from something we have had in our stash for at least 6 months and have not used for a while.  I used this sports set by SU.  It is a retired set that was one of my first sets I got from them at least 5 years ago.  I brought it out to make a birthday card for my son's friend and decided to use it for the challenge.  I chose to do the emboss resist techniques with the images.  The patterned paper is current SU paper that I ran through another tool that has not seen the light of day in a while and that is my crimper.  Remember when that was one of the only ways to add texture to paper before all the fun embossing folders became prevalent?  This is a quick and easy card that I also will be sharing at my SU Stamp Camp this month. Even though it is a retired set, I needed something masculine.  The next stop on the hop is Brenda's blog - Stamp It Up

If you want to travel the whole hop from start you can start at Melissa's blog INKclinations the beginning at  hop.

Practicing my Clean and Simple (CAS) technique by participating in this week's Splitcoaststampers.com weekly CAS challenge.  This week's challenge CAS111 is a sketch.  I chose Loads of Love set.  This was inspired by a card from the March 2011 issue of Stampin Success magazine.  I used the same stamp set and the same colors but used the CAS sketch.  

Stampin Up Supplies:
Stamps:  Loads of Love/Loads of Love Accessories
Card Stock:  Pink Pirouette, So Saffron, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Ink:  Black Stazon
Tools/Accessories:  Circle Punch, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Scallop Border Punch, Smooch Accent Ink (Moonlight)

Artistic Etchings FYI Birthday

Made this card as a prototype for a my upcoming Stamp Camp.  This one features the Artistic Etchings and FYI stamp sets.  I used the masking technique to make the medallion look like it is behind the towers.  I stamped the Eiffel Tower stamp with black ink in the lower left corner and then stamped off twice more staggering them slightly.  On scrap paper, I stamped the tower 3 more times and cut those out to make masks to place over my image panel and them inked the medallion stamp with Real Red ink and stamped over the towers.  The crown was stamped also with black ink and trimmed closely to add as an embellishment.  The design of the card was inspired by Splitcoaststampers.com sketch challenge this week.  Click Here to go to the gallery and see all the other cards created using this sketch.  The scallop strip added to the bottom of the image panel is not so much a design element as a way to cover up a boo-boo.  There are no mistakes in crafting just creative opportunities. 

Stampin' Up! Supplies:
Card stock:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red.
Ink:  Basic Black, Real Red
Stamps:  Artistic Etchings, FYI
Embellishments:  Basic Rhinestones
Tools:  Word Window Punch

March 2011 Stamp Camp - Birthday Extravaganza

Beaded Circle Shape Card for SCS Challenges

With the help of My Digital Studio, I created the sentiment in the center from the Sunny Day set.  I used some die cuts for the shape and the flowers.  The card was created for a couple of challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.com.  The technique challenge this week was to create an odd-shaped card and the color challenge was SU colors Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, and Bashful Blue.  A white gel pen was the dessert item to use so naturally I had to use that as this shape called for it.  Basic Jewel Rhinestones finish this off as the center of the flowers. 

Woodland Walk Silhouette Thinking Of You

Clean and Simple Card using the Silhouette Sentiment hostess set and Woodland Walk Paper.  The finished size of this one is 4-1/4 square.  This is for a cousin whose birthday I missed last week.  I just thought I'd send him a simple thinking of you because I'm embarrassed to send HIS birthday card LATE.  I had his birthday card made, I just lost track of time.  I'll save it for next year. 

Stampin' Up! Supplies: 
Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Garden Green
DSP:  Woodland Walk
Stamps:  Silhouette Sentiment
Tools/Accessories:  Scallop Trim Border, Scallop Circle punch and 1-3/8" circle punch, Sponges
Ink:  Chocolate Chip and Always Artichoke.

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Elements of Style - Mother's Day - SCS Sketch Challenge Card




Click the picture to see the other card using this
Sketch in the SC322 Gallery
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  I don't often get time to participate in challenges but SCS sketch challenge is one that I do like to make time for.  The sketch this week looked interesting to me as was this week's SCS Newsletter technique by Beate Johns so I stayed up to the wee hours to make this card.  The picture does not show the embossing very well on the image panel but it is done with the double emboss technique.  Click HERE to see the tutorial by Beate.  The Elements of Style set seems to be my new go-to set.  I just love the flower stamp and have actually used it quite a bit.  I stamped it and colored with markers and then added some bling with a glitter marker.  The sentiment is from last year's mini catalog from the Well Scripted set.

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SU Supplies:
Card stock:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Regal Rose
Stamps:  Elements of Style

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