Happy Birthday Ute!

Yesterday was my friend Ute's  birthday!

I am in NY this week but I made her card and got it to her before she left.

She is a stamping buddy so there is always a little more pressure to make an amazing card and I am pretty happy with how this one turned out!

I created an easel card with a new Art Impressions stamp set.

This is Giant Cake Set.

Here is how the card looks when it is closed up and ready to mail.

I colored the image with colored pencils 

The paper is Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby.

The ribbon is from Creative Impressions.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Stampendous!

I am excited to get back home so we can celebrate with some cake...and wine.

Happy Birthday Ute!

See you soon!

Kristine

Thank You

Have you seen the new all in one stamps from Stampendous?

They have a sentiment and fabulous images all in one stamp.

The team is sharing what they've made with these new stamps this week.

Here is my first card using Thank You Daisies.

What did I use?

Stampendous:
R264 Thank You Daisies
SSH57 Jumbo Perfectly Clear™ Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
DCP1006 Fitted Frames B

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock by My Minds Eye® (Golden Yellow)
Graphic 45® Aquatic Passage patterned Paper
DCWV®  colored cork
TombowUSA® Recycled colored pencils
May Arts® Ribbon
Scrapbook Adhesives® 3D Foam Squares
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Directions:
1.  Fold an 11" x 4 1/4" piece of Golden Yellow cardstock in half to create the card base.
2.  Fold the front part of the card in half to create a "tent"
3. Adhere a 4" x2 1/2" piece of patterned paper to the lower part of the fold
4. Tie ribbon around the card just below the fold
5.  Stamp image on a white piece of cardstock and color with pencils
6.  Die cut image and then back with a slightly larger die cut panel of green cork
7. Adhere just the lower portion of the image panel to the card  so that it can stand up like an easel
8. Create the inside panel by adhering a 4" x 2" panel of white cardstock to a 2 1/8" x 4 1/8" panel of green cork and then adhere to the bottom inside of the card with 3D squares
9. Ink up one of the flowers from the Thank You Daisies stamp and stamp on a white scrap.
10. color with pencils and cut out
11. adhere to the inside panel

Check out more inspiration:

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Pam Bray

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Everything Grows With Love

Hello High Hopes Fans!

It's my turn to post a project on the High Hopes Blog.

Today I created a fun Easel card with Puppy Wonder.

The outside sentiment is Everything Grows.

The inside sentiment is Heart Sing.

I colored the image with colored pencils and Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens.

The patterned paper is from the My Minds Eye "On Trend" paper pack.

Here is how the card looks when it is closed up and ready to mail!

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Thanks for checking out my project!

Kristine

Birthday Easel Card

Happy Sunday Rubber Cafe' Fans!

I am so excited to share another fun fold card project that I made with the March Rubber Cafe' Creative Cafe' Kit of the month, Special Celebration.  I used the add on set, Little Cupcake for today's card.

Here is my card when it is closed and ready to mail.

But...this is an easel card so when the recipient receives this lovely card, they can set it out for all to see and it will look like this! 

To create this card, Start with a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of navy blue cardstock.

Fold the card in half to create a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base.

Fold the front of the card in half.

Adhere a 4 1/8 x 5 3/8" panel of flowered paper to the top portion of the front of the card with Scrap Happy Glue.

Do the same with the green and white striped paper.

Tie a piece of light teal ribbon around the top of the lower portion of the card.

Adhere a 4 1/8" x 5 3/8 panel of patterned paper to the inside of the card.

Stamp the sentiment on a 1 1/4" x 3 3/4" of white cardstock with black ink.

Back sentiment panel with a 4 1/4" x 1 3/4" pink panel.

Adhere panel to the inside of the card with 3D foam squares.

Stamp the floral cupcake image on a white die cut circle panel with black ink and color with colored pencils.

Back the cupcake panel with a larger circle panel cut from patterned paper.

Then back with a slightly larger circle panel of light pink cardstock.

Finally, the bottom panel is a navy blue scallop edge circle panel.

Fold the front of the card up so it rests behind the sentiment panel to create the easel.

Adhere the cupcake panel to the card by applying -Scrap Happy Glue to only the bottom half of the panel.

This card is a great way to give a gift card to someone special for their birthday.

I hope you give it a try!

Supplies:

Stamps: The Rubber Cafe'- Special Celebration #eatcake, Little Cupcake stamp set

Paper: The Rubber Cafe' KOTM--MME On Trend 2, Pink Pearl, white, and blue by Bazzil

Ink:  Tuxedo Black dye ink,
Other: Colored Pencils, Spellbinders Classic Circle & Classic Scallop Circles dies

Adhesives: The Rubber Cafe'-Scrap Happy Glue, 3D foam squares

Embellishments:  Teal ribbon,