SCS Sketch Challenge #191

Last night I stamped a bunch of birthday cards in preparation for our big family celebration of September birthdays tomorrow. I used the Splitcoaststampers Sketch Challenge #191 for this card for my nephew. He's turning 12 and I know he doesn't care about the card, but I tried to come up with something that would be a little appealing to him...and the Tangerine Tango happened to match the gift card inside perfectly!

Supplies: Classic Backgrounds stamp set, It's Your Birthday stamp set, Pacific Point ink & cardstock, Kiwi Kiss ink & cardstock, Tangerine Tango ink & cardstock, Whisper White cardstock, Small & Large Star Punches, Crafters' Tool Kit.

[The finished card measures 5-1/2" x 3-1/2".]

Celebrate Butterfly Card

Last week, while looking for inspiration for my card class, I came across a card made by Becky Carafa. It was clean and simple, and just my style. I love her work! I CASEd this card from her, but changed the colors and used DSP instead of stamping the background.

We made this card in my All Occasions class here in Champaign and will do it again for the class on September 9th in Springfield (email me to sign up now if you can come!). See my Calendar of Events for details.

Supplies: Flight of the Butterfly, Fundamental Phrases, Junior Varisty DSP, Bashful Blue cardstock, Rose Red ink & cardstock, So Saffron ink & cardstock, silver brads, Crafters' Tool Kit

Happy Day Scrapbook Page

I put this 8-1/2" x 8-1/2" scrapbook page together for Jay & Jilyan's party on Wednesday (thanks again for hosting, ladies!). These pictures of Claire are from Tuesday afternoon while we were waiting for Thomas to get home from his first day at pre-school! (Watch for that scrapbook page coming soon!) I started with a 6"x6" page (the Regal Rose square in the upper left corner) and then added it on to the 8-1/2" x 8-1/2" (which we now have a new chipboard album to accommodate!)

I just love the colors of the Georgia Peach DSP. I started with the strip of squares and added squares of color to the 8-1/2" x 8-1/2" page. A couple of them are squares of Georgia Peach DSP and a couple of them were stamped using the "Flight of the Butterfly" stamp set. One note: I used my marker to color only part of the greeting "hope your day is as happy as happy gets" and shortened it to "as happy as happy gets" which worked out better size-wise for my page and made more sense on the scrapbook page. I used the Love & Happiness rub-ons (from Sale-a-bration 2008) on the photo.

Supplies: Flight of the Butterfly stamp set, Georgia Peach DSP, Regal Rose ink/marker/cardstock, Old Olive ink & cardstock, So Saffron ink & cardstock, Regal Rose 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Love & Happiness Rub-ons