Paired with a Punch

 

At Late Night Stampers this week we are pairing stamp sets with punches so I pulled out the Four Frames stamp set and my Decorative Label punch.

 

 

My sentiment is from the Friendly Phrases stamp set and I added a retired corduroy button for an accent.

 

The background is made with several different designer series papers - Fan Fair, Parker's Patterns, and Naturals Composition specialty paper.  I embossed the Early Espresso layer with the Vintage wallpaper folder.

 

Come on over and join us - you can see what the design team created here.

Happy Day

 

I am sharing a couple cards that are pretty similar to each other, both made with leftovers that I had used for other projects.  Sometimes that makes putting cards together easier and sometimes it makes it a lot harder trying to figure out how to use the pieces. 

 

 

The first one uses a sentiment from Friendly Phrases along with images from Oh Hello and some Tea for Two dsp.

 

The second only uses the Oh Hello stamp set and once again the Tea for Two dsp.  I haven't been the biggest fan of Calypso Coral, but I have been trying to make myself use it more especially since it will be part of the color renovation coming up.

Baby Prints

I was working on some card orders last week and replenishing my own stock of cards at the same time.  These are a couple baby ones I came up with using Baja Breeze for the boy card and Pink Pirouette for the girl one.

 

 

The saying comes from Friendly Phrases and I used Baby prints for the hands and Distressed Dots for the background.

 

I just added a 3/4" scrap behind the labels framelit to break up the background a little bit.  Simple cards, but I like the way they turned out.

Tea Cups

 

My Morning Cup stamp set hasn't been used in awhile so I pulled it out for this card.  Again, scraps of designer series paper - Festival of Prints and First Edition are the base of this card. 

 

 

I stamped on both the base of the card and on some other scraps of dsp with the tea cups and cut out a few of the tea cups and pasted them onto the card.

 

The sentiment is from Friendly Phrases and I added a little bit of 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon that I cut apart.

Baby Feet

This is a super quick and easy baby card that I put together.  I used Pretty in Pink, Raspberry Ripple and Very Vanilla card stock and ink. 

The stamp sets are Friendly Phrases and Baby Prints.  I added some Basic Rhinestones and the background was made with the dotted scallop ribbon punch.

Clockworks

I used this card as one in my last Stamp A Stack.  It features the stamp set Clockworks and the Polka Dot Parade designer series paper.

Supplies:
Clockworks
Friendly Phrases
Polka Dot Parade DSP
Whisper White, Marina Mist, Rich Razzleberry card stock
Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry, Marina Mist classic ink
Large scallop edgelit
1/8" stitched grosgrain ribbon - Daffodil Delight and White
Argyle folder

Simply Wonderful

Our Late Night Stampers Challenge this week is to use paper piercing on our projects.  One of my non winning Artisan Award projects included that element so I thought I would share it today.

I pierced around the Peach Parfait and then added some white gel pen for a faux stitched look.

The Pool Party and Wisteria Wonder on the inside were embossed with the Stripes impressions folder.

The card uses a lot of little elements and texture, mostly made from scraps.

To My Friend

We have some fun preview challenges at VC Rocks and this is one card that I made from them.  One day we might pick the base card stock and then another day we mix it with something else and you never know what you will end up with for your final card.

Supplies:

Creative Elements, Friendly Phrases

Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Basic Black card stock

Marina Mist, Basic Black classic ink

1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon

dimensionals

water

Simply Wonderful

I have another card for our Late Night Stampers challenge this week.  We are using the picture at the bottom of the post for our inspiration and this time I chose to go with the colors rather than the stripes and polka dots. 

To make the flower, I have 2 pieces punched out using the Blossom punch and three inside pieces from the Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch. 

Supplies:

Friendly Phrases

Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Very Vanilla card stock

Soft Suede classic ink

Beau Chateau designer series paper

Blossom punch

Blossom Bouquet triple layer punch

Scallop edge punch

antique brads

Vintage wallpaper impressions folder

dimensionals

Inspiration Challenge

Our challenge this week at Late Night Stampers is an Inspiration challenge using the photo of the cake below the card. 

I chose to use the stripes, colors and circles as my inspiration for the card above. 

Supplies:

Friendly Phrases

Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Very Vanilla card stock

Brights DSP pack

Victoria Crochet trim ribbon

1 3/4" circle punch

circles die

big shot

3/4" circle punch

1" circle punch

1 1/4" circle punch

dimensionals

button

More Stamp A Stack cards

These are the final two cards I used in my Stamp A Stack last week.  The first uses the upcoming Sale-a-bration designer series paper called Everyday Enchantment along with the Love and Sympathy stamp set.  It is a Z fold card and was actually very quick and simple to make.

The last card is one I CASED from Maureen Merritt and altered slightly.  I just love her cards!!

The stamp sets used on this one are Just Believe and Friendly Phrases.

To my Friend

I want to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving today!  There are so many things to be thankful for in my life, not just today, but each and every day. 

Another "scraps pile" card for you today....I had so many of these floating reinker roses around I finally just used them all up!  The tag behind it was also an extra from another project and I ran it through the Elegant lines impressions folder for a little texture.

Supplies:

Friendly Phrases, Fifth Avenue Floral

Basic Black classic ink

Versamark

Black embossing powder

Very Vanilla, Old Olive and Basic Black card stock

1 1/4" striped black grosgrain ribbon

scallop oval punch

large oval punch

dimensionals

reinkers

Some more shine!

Well, last week I completed Mary Jo's sketch challenge and didn't get it posted so this week I am one step ahead of that! 

I used versamark on my embossing folder and then after I ran the Crumb Cake through it I used Black embossing powder and heated it up.  It didn't turn out quite the way I had hoped, but I will keep trying!!

Supplies:

Friendly phrases

Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Black card stock

Holly Berry Bouquet specialty paper

Red Glimmer paper

Basic Black classic ink

versamark

black embossing powder

Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder

curly label punch

modern label punch

 rosette

rhinestone brads

sponge

5/8" red grosgrain ribbon

dimensionals

The oval of red glimmer paper is actually not a punch, it is the middle of the "O" left over from die cutting using the Serif Essentials alphabet die.

Spice Cake Set

The Spice Cake designer series paper is one of my favorites and for this project, I put together a set of 6 cards and a bag in a box to hold them.

The flower is made from the Spice Cake designer fabric and the handle is connected with Antique brads.

The cards were stamped using Friendly Phrases and Day of Gratitude and I used More Mustard and Soft Suede classic inks. 

Supplies:

Friendly Phrases

Day of Gratitude

More Mustard, Soft Suede classic ink

More Mustard, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla card stock

Spice Cake designer series paper and fabric

antique brads

decorative label punch

extra large oval punch

1" circle punch

1 1/4" circle punch

basic pearls

Spice Cake designer buttons

Vanilla Seam binding