I held my monthly stamp-a-stack class last night and the theme for the month was BIRTHDAYS! That seems to be the most popular request for cards besides Christmas cards. I decided to focus on four types - masculine (the hardest to create in my opinion), whimsical, teen and feminine.
Here is the masculine card - it features the beautiful deer from Nature Silhouettes. The scene was created very easily with stampin' sponges and so saffron, pumpkin pie and early espresso ink pads. The card also features the large pine tree from Lovely As a Tree (a must-have stamp set for your collection!). Some of my stampers chose to use the wolf image from this stamp set - here is an example of that...
I used the "Happy Birthday" sentiment, punched out with the modern label punch, from the On Your Birthday stamp set and added texture to the cherry cobbler mat using the Square Lattice impressions folder with my Big Shot. I realy like this warm color combination and will be using it again!
For the whimsical card I turned to my favorite stamp set Aviary from the Idea Book & Catalog. I saw this layout on my friend LeeAnn Greff's blog here and this card by Diane Cramer and had to CASE them! Funny thing is, LeeAnn's CASE'd one of my cards for her birthday stamp-a-stack class, too!! The color combination is bright and cheery, don't you think? I used pacific point, daffodil delight, rich razzleberry and whisper white. The tag is from the Two Tags bigz die and was cut out with my Big Shot, which served double-duty because the top half of the white panel was embossed using the Finial Press impressions folder. Don't recognize the birthday sentiment? It comes from the Full of Life stamp set.
Now that my girls are getting older, I have found myself in need of some teen birthday cards... this Extreme Elements stamp set works so well with the Extreme sports line of single stamps - I chose to use the Extreme Skateboard stamp. What do you think? I like the way this one turned out! The color scheme is sahara sand, not quite navy, real red, whisper white and soft suede. I used the "true friend" and "Happy Birthday" stamps from the Punch Bunch stamp set - one you can earn for FREE during Sale-a-Bration (SAB) with a qualifying $50 order.
And here is the last card of the night - I've had the First Edition DSP for quite a while and finally broke the seal on it for these flower embellishments for this card. It was created with 2 Scallop Circle punches and the large and small flowers from the Boho Blossoms punch which were crumpled then sponged with crumb cake ink. The layers are all held together with an old olive brad and attached to the pear pizzazz polystitch ribbon with a stampin' dimensional. The very vanilla panel was run through the Big Shot using the Framed Tulips impression folder with the Big Shot. The "Happy Birthday" sentiment is from the Curly Cute stamp set - I really like this one and find myself using it a lot lately!
I hope you found some inspiration in my birthday cards! Thanks for visiting.
Great work! I'm really amazed and impressed of your stamps. Your such a talented woman. Thanks for the inspiration. Good job!
Posted by: marion | March 17, 2011 at 03:22 AM