I wanted to show you a card I made for one of my best friends' birthday. You will recognize the layout...I used this same layout for my mom's birthday card in my previous post and it turned out so nice, I thought I would try it again. But this time using totally different colours and patterned paper.
I used Smokey Slate, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. The flower is from the retired set Petal Potporri and wonderful Flower Medallion Punch. The 'Happy Birthday' is from a really old set that I just can't part with, Curvy Verses.
This past Sunday was my mom's 65th birthday. My dad surprised her with a birthday party on Saturday evening with some of their friends. But, my brother, sister and I wanted to do something special from us. So, we surprised her with a BBQ lunch and a present...we bought her a Pandora bracelet! She loved it - who wouldn't!
To top it all off....I made her a card ;)
This was the perfect opportunity to use my new favourite stampset - Sprinkles of Life! This was my chance to use the cupcake images.
She loved it too - she keeps all the cards I make for her. Thanks mom!
Here is a picture of my mom and some of her grandchildren...some couldn't be there.
Thanks for stopping by! Today, I am sharing the card I made for our Challenge over at Stampin' Celebration! Have you seen the Inspiration? Perfect for this time of year......summer treats!
Here is the Inspiration picture....
YUMO! So, I just had to use my Sprinkles of Life stampset for this challenge - a perfect match, wouldn't you say?
When I first saw this picture - the blue, the sprinkles and the cherries were the first things that caught my eye. Second, was the red and white and chocolate brown. So, I wanted to incorporate all of these things into my card.
Here is the card I made...
I can't tell you how much I LOVE this stampset and coordinating punch! Sprinkles of Life is Stampin'UP!'s charity stampset for the current annual catalogue.....for every set sold, Stampin'UP! donates $3 to the Ronald McDonald House Charity.It's a win - win.
Be sure to join us for this really fun challenge! I can't wait to see what you make!
I hope your week is going well so far. Happy Canada Day for my Canadian readers! I hope you were able to celebrate this wonderful country of ours!
My family went to my parents house. They live in a retirement community where they are always celebrating.....So naturally, Canada Day was a great reason to celebrate!
There was live music, a BBQ, face painting and a parade that is lead by the Town Cryer - awesome. My family has made it a tradition to participate in the parade with decorated golf carts, my kids just love it! Here are some pictures from our fun day.
And now for the real reason you stopped by.....a card. One of my latest card classes focused on Thank you's and this card is a perfect reflection of our day yesterday. A thank you card using the Sprinkles of Life stampset.
Our weather was cloudy with a few rays of sunshine, but mostly we were thankful to celebrate Canada Day with family and friends.
Whew - I made it through last week...card classes, end of school year, 7 year old birthday party - oh my! So very glad it's the weekend!
Have you seen the newest punch board from Stampin'up! ? It is a gift bag punch board - so you can create your own gift bags! I just love this thing!
I had a chance to play with mine a lot for my latest visit to the TV show Daytime. You can see my post about the projects I made here. For the show, I made the 3 standard sized gift bags that you can make with the board - 2 3/4 ", 3 1/4" and 3 3/4" wide.
I wanted to create custom sized gift bags for my two youngest son's teachers to hold their thank you gifts which were 5 1/2" wide. It took a little adjusting, but it worked!
Here are the bags....
I used some Very Vanilla cardstock for the bag itself and then I dressed up the front with some DSP and matching cardstock. I also used up the last of my Chevron Ribbon.
My middle son had a male teacher this year, so I used some of the great Typeset DSP from the new Annual Catalogue and then I framed it with some Basic Black Cardstock. I added a few banners using my new Triple Banner Punch and finally a bow, yep even for a male teacher - I just couldn't resist!
For my youngest son's teacher, I used a bit more feminine colours. I found some retired DSP in my stash that matched the ribbon I had as well as the card I made for her. I framed the DSP with some Sahara Sand Cardstock which was also a colour from her card. And again, I made some banner's and finished it off with a bow.
Here is Stampin'UP!'s video on how to use the Gift Bag Punch Board.
If you have any questions please leave me a comment and I will get back to you.
Today, I wanted to show you a card I made for my regular card class and to use a teacher thank you card.
I hopped on over to Case This Sketch to get an idea for a layout and here is the sketch they had for us....
And, here is the card that I made...
Awesome
layout eh? Perfect opportunity to use my Hello You Thinlits! I used
some retired DSP paper from last year's Halloween pack - love when I can do that.
I wanted to pair the Sahara Sand colours with a bright colour, so I chose Calypso Coral for the 'thanks' and my flower. The flower was made using the Flower Medallion Punch and the matching Petal Potpourri Stampset
Don't forget to add some detail to the inside of your card - always a nice surprise when the inside has a little special touch.
I plan to give this to my almost (he has his birthday tomorrow) 7 year old's teacher. She is the best grade one teacher he could ask for!
Looking for some inskpiration for a masculine teacher thank you? Click here or scroll on down to see my post from yesterday.
This week I am busy making teacher thank you gifts and cards for my kids to take to school with them - the count down is on and they are just SO exctied to be finished school!
I stopped on over to Just Add Ink for some inspiration and what did I see...
I am sure everyone is having the same thought....what does that mean? So they also gave us the definition:
"Using font or type to create print"
So, I had a great idea. Use the paper from the new lightweight DSP paper pack. One of the sheets has big bold numbers on it and the colour scheme is Basic Black and Very Vanilla - perfect for my two older son's who have male teachers!
Here is my card...
I wanted to use up some of my Chalkboard paper that has recently retired (sniff, sniff) a great option for a teacher card, don't you think?
I wanted to coordinate the gift bag so I used some of this great DSP to cover the side of a paper gift bag. Inside, I added some treats with handmade tag.
