Cat couldn’t let Valentine’s Day go by without getting in on the action. She wants to be included on this day of celebrating love by giving a baby her very first Valentine. She feels there are girl babies all over the place (daughters, granddaughters, friend’s daughters) who need to see her lovely, pink, heart, fur (Love Blossoms Designer paper). She would happily change to blue for boy babies.
Baby’s First Valentine
Cat (Cat Punch) likes playing outside, and chose to sit against a fence (Wood Textures Designer Series Paper.) It was made even more realistic by embossing with the Pinewood Planks folder.
She thought she was quite clever, and contemporary, to say, “I heart U.”
The “I” and the “U” are from the Large Letters Die set. They are colored with Stampin’ Blends in Light Pink Pirouette and Crumb Cake on Watercolor Paper.
I must tell you about the heart. I think the striped heart in the Heart Happiness set in the Occasions catalog is fabulous, and I’ve regretted not ordering it. But, we can’t get everything, right? I have the die in that shape from the Lots to Love Box Dies set, and the Simple Stripes embossing folder, so I made my own version. I could even color it, but Cat wanted it white for her project.
I triple layered Cat along with her letters and heart, and glued them to the fence.
Before Cat was glued to the fence, she got tangled in some Linen Thread, so I decided to tie it around the bottom of the card.
And, the Love Blossoms DSP has a pretty Crumb Cake floral pattern, so I decided to decorate the envelope flap, which shows in the first picture.
Cat wants to show off her pretty Valentine in the Global Design Project gallery, because it’s all about “New Beginnings.” Baby’s first Valentine is the beginning of many, many cards to come.
Cat has had quite a few adventures on my past projects. Here are two favorites:
What do you think of when you see pipes and mustaches and bowties in browns and darker shades of green and blue. Men, of course! That’s why I was so excited to see the True Gentleman Suite in the Occasions Catalog, pages 44-45, because I’m always needing masculine cards.
These are two, quick & easy projects, letting the DSP do all the work. DSP stands for Designer Series Paper, and this pack is called True Gentleman. You get twelve sheets; 2 each of 6 double-sided designs, 12X12″.
True Gentleman Bowtie Birthday Card
You can view this musical video, if you’d like to take a peek at all of the fun DSP in the Occasions Catalog:
The card base for the “Dapper Day” card is Crumb Cake cardstock (4 1/4″ X 5 1/2″)) layered with DSP (4″ X 5 1/4″), a vertical lay-out.
I cut a strip of Burlap Ribbon to go beneath the sentiment. This is one of the ribbons that seems to appeal to men, although, it’s one of my favorites too.It’s held nicely in place with Tear Tape.
You can see the great selection of sentiments in the Truly Tailored stamp set.
I chose the sentiment with the mustache, and stamped it in Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock, using a square, Stitched Shape die for cutting. I placed it on dimensionals, and my card was almost complete.
I needed to say “Happy Birthday” on the inside, and found a font I liked in the Birthday Wit stamp set. I stamped this in Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock, trimmed to 4″ X 5 1/4″, and glued inside.
Adding the houndstooth pattern to the Very Vanilla envelope flap was the finishing touch.
The bowtie card has a horizontal lay-out, otherwise, the measurements are the same. How do you like my 3-D bowtie? I made it using the Bow Builder Punch.
The punch in the center is the Banner Triple Punch. I used it to finish the end of my 1″ strip of Tranquil Tide cardstock (matches the card base) placed beneath the bowtie and sentiment. I used the punch on the right, the Tailored Tag Punch, for my sentiment.
There’s a challenge going on over at Paper Player’s using this classic lay-out. So, my “classy kind of guy” card will fit right in!
I chose the Stylized Birthday stamp for the inside. This is a red rubber, wood block stamp I adore. It gives me a fabulous image, every time.
I finished the project with another piece of DSP on the envelope flap, a stripe this time.
Can you see how I let the DSP do the work? Stampin’ Up! makes it simple for us to turn out nice looking projects with minimal effort.
It’s fun taking it to the next level too. Here’s one from my galley that was quite a bit more complicated. I used the True Gentleman DSP, but added a number of elements, detailed in the post.
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Sale-A-Bration is the perfect time to join my team, and add FREE stamp sets to your collection. I made this birthday card in a jiffy, using the Amazing You stamp set and Celebrate You Thinlits Dies, both from Sale-A-Bration.
Celebrate You Happy Birthday Card
Watch this video for information on Sale-A-Bration, and great samples using these sets.
Are you ready for the details on my birthday card? First, I used the die to cut the word “celebrate” two times from Thick Whisper White cardstock; one for coloring, and one to layer for thickness.
The Stampin’ Blends made it fun to color “celebrate” in an ombre fashion. I painted Light Bermuda Bay across the bottom, followed by Dark Pool Party, and Light Pool Party across the top. These alcohol pens make it easy to blend the colors. Imagine what you could do with the entire combo pack of 27 markers! That’s the one I bought, but they are available individually also.
Are you wondering where I found the ray coming out of “celebrate?” This stamp is in the Amazing You stamp set, and just what I needed for shooting off some fireworks.
I added color with the fabulous Frutti-tutti Adhesive-backed Sequins. Yes, you read correctly, they are adhesive-backed, in five colors, page 29 in the Occasions Catalog. You just scoop and plop these babies, no muss, no fuss. I had to force myself to stop with nine, because I was having so much fun!
This card could be celebrating anything, but this is a birthday card. The Birthday Wit stamp set (Occasions Catalog, page 9) has a “Happy Birthday” I thought would go with the fireworks, stamped in the same Basic Black ink.
This card base is Thick Whisper White, so I stamped right on it. When I use colored cardstock as the card base, I layer it with regular Whisper White for the inside sentiment.
Since I brought Birthday Wit into the picture, here is another card I recently made using another stamp from the set.
My husband often asks for masculine birthday cards to take to work for his employees, so I like to always have a stash on hand. I was excited to see the True Gentleman Suite in the new Occasions catalog, pp 44-45.
True Gentleman Hexagon Birthday Card
This Suite has a great selection of Designer Series Paper, named True Gentleman, and a stamp set (Truly Tailored) to coordinate. And, the really fun part is the Tailored Tag Punch for cutting the cute sentiments. I chose “Lookin’ Sharp” to go with the paper with glasses. Isn’t that great?
I paired the elongated Hexagons Punch with our Hexagons embossing folder, so this card has hexagons all over the place. The card base is Night of Navy, and the embossed layer is Very Vanilla.
I used the Tailored Tag Punch on three different patterns of the True Gentleman paper, along with two solid Night of Navy, two solid Tranquil Tide, and one solid Very Vanilla that I stamped with the sentiment. The punching made this quick & easy.
You can see how I glued the solid pieces behind the patterned hexagons to add color and a finished look. It also added “body” for popping up on dimensionals.
The original inspiration for this entire card was inspired by the design at CAS(E) this sketch. Cool sketch, don’t you agree?
I can’t forget to show you the sentiment on the inside, which also comes in the Truly Tailored stamp set.
It’s ready for signatures to make a guy feel special on his birthday. Just spreading the love. Thanks for visiting my blog.
I’m in Valentine card making mode, so this idea was already formulating before I saw today’s Tic Tac Toe challenge.
Valentine Love on a String
You can see I chose the bottom row across, Sparkle, Love, Free.
What is very difficult to see, is the sparkle. Because of this challenge, I used Wink of Stella on all of the little raised “Hearts” from the embossed Falling Petals folder. I managed to capture a bit of it when holding the card at this angle. It adds a lot, especially in person.
I began by stamping the hearts (Sure Do Love You stamp set) with Real Red Ink on Crumb Cake cardstock. I don’t know how it occurred to me to hang them on a string, but I accomplished this by punching tiny holes and using Linen Thread.
I decided the card base would be Crumb Cake, layered with Cherry Cobbler to match the hearts.
Very Vanilla cardstock would make a nice background for the hearts. Before embossing it, I randomly stamped it with “Love” in Sahara Sand Ink from the Weather Together stamp set.
I “sure do love” all of these sparkly hearts. Have a wonderful day!
I was feeling adventuresome this morning, and wanted to make a messy, Valentine collage.
Valentine Love Notes Collage
The idea began when I saw the theme challenge at Paper Players, “Love Notes.”
With a theme like “Love Notes,” I couldn’t resist using the sentiment “Love Note” that retired last year (Sealed with Love stamp set). I stamped it in Basic Black Ink and cut its frame with that wonderful, sentiment die in the Petals & More set.
I found the lay-out for my collage at Global Design Project.
I decided the card base would be Berry Burst cardstock to match the Berry Burst Ribbon that Lisa Pretto surprised me with in the mail. I was anxious to use the ribbon,and knew it could be part of my collage. I scraped it with a pin for a nice, distressed look. By the way, this was really fun!
Next, I inked up the Sheet Music Background stamp with Berry Burst, stamped it on Thick Whisper White cardstock, and cut it with a heart die in the Lots to Love Box die set. For more music, I die cut a Treble Clef from Silver Foil, and glued it to the heart. (Musical Instruments die set from Holiday).
I chose a Whisper White mat that I embossed with the Simple Stripes Folder to mimic sheet music.
Before gluing everything down, I cut the Basic Black flowers with two dies from the Petals & More set, and punched a black border with the Ticket Tear punch.
The last touch was the Glitter Enamel Dot.
Thank you, Lisa Pretto, for the ribbon. This collage wouldn’t be the same without it! I must say, it’s held “neatly” in place with Tear Tape, and the bow is on a Glue Dot.
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