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An Elegant Feminine Birthday Card with "Friends 24-7"!

My hostess for tomorrow night, Sandy, asked for an "Elegant Feminine Birthday" card for her Stamp Camp, so of course I went straight for "Friends 24-7"! It's elegant femininity deluxe! I also went to my Designer Paper stash to use my "Bella Bleu" DSP! Here's the card, let me know what you think!

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We will also be using the Eyelet Border punch with the Photo Corner punch in a new way to get a much more "feminine" photo corner!

The birdie is stamped in Sahara Sand on the Very Vanilla cardstock, then I layered Vellum Paper over the birdie which I stamped the "friends" phrase in Not Quite Navy. Now, I don't use vellum on my projects as much as I would like, mainly because I never know how to attach it without the adhesive showing, but on this card I was able to put a little dab of SNAIL in three of the four corners, then covered the corners with the photo corners and the Styled Vanilla ribbon slide with the Kraft taffeta ribbon. For the final corner I used my Paper Piercer and Mat Pack to pierce a "faux stitching" line up each side of the corner. Piercing the vellum through the Very Vanilla backing causes the vellum to stick into the holes just a little bit and "voila!" no adhesive needed in that corner!

Bold Cupcakes!

This is the final card I created for the "Birthday Blowout" Stamp-a-Stack last week. I wanted to use my Bold Cupcake sizzlet with my Big Shot, and also wanted to use the Raspberry Tart Designer Series Paper. This was actually a fun and easy card to make!

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What do you think? Leave me a comment here, not an email, and I will send you this card!

Birthday Pop-Up Cake Revisited!

My daughter, Jessica, looked at my previous post about the Pop-up Cake, and said, "Mom, you need to show better pictures, I don't understand how it "pops!", so I re-took my pics to give you a better idea of how this card is put together. Here is the card closed (I know, with all of that cake smashed inside, it doesn't want to stay closed on it's own! lol!)
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And here it is starting to pop open:
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And now it's completely "popped"!
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I am really excited about this class and hope more of you can come Saturday! Now to call Jessica and ask her if this makes more sense now! Leave me a comment and let me know what you think and I will send you one of these!

Hope to see you Saturday!

A Lucky Duckie!

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My hostess for tomorrow night, Angie, loves anything rubber-duckie, so she asked to do a card with this fun little guy from "Wagon Full of Fun" from the Occasions Mini. He is so much fun to color! I used the Polka Dot background from the Dormant List (which means it's a stamp set not shown in the catalog but you can still purchase it, ask me for a copy of the Dormant List!) with Pacific Point ink on the Pacific Point cardstock, Kiwi Kiss cardstock, and this great print from the "Good Morning Sunshine" Designer Series Paper. (DON'T FORGET this and all of our other Designer Series Paper is on sale this month Buy Three Get a 4th Package for FREE!) I stamped the duckie with Basic Black ink (I would usually use Staz-on, but the pad is in another project box already packed to go to the party tomorrow!), then colored him with Summer Sun & Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write markers. I used Pacific Point refill ink and an old blender pen to color his bow. I stamped the wing area  on the same DSP, then cut out the wing and popped it up with a tiny piece of a Stampin' Dimensional. I finished off the card with the words "Lucky Duck" from the same "Wagon Full of Fun" set stamped on Whisper White, punched out with the Large Oval punch, then layered on a Scalloped Oval punched from Kiwi Kiss.

Note: My daughter, Jessica, (go check out her blog, "It's a Sweet Crazy Life", the link is on my sidebar) tells me I need to take a couple more pictures of the Pop-up Cake card to show how it "pops" out of the card. She hasn't seen it in person and says it's hard to invision how it "pops"! I have Recipe Book Classes today, so hopefully I will get that done and blogged for tomorrow sometime today!

I still have plenty of room at my "Birthday Blow-out" Stamp Stack on Saturday, so give me a call to reserve your spot at the 10 a.m or 2 p.m. class!

Stamp something good today!

Simple Birthday Thanks and the Pop-up Cake!

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I started working on one of the designs for the "Birthday Blowout" Stamp Camp this Saturday, May 16th, and this is the card I promised to show you! For the front of the card we are using "Simple Birthday Thanks" an adorable one-piece stamp set that can be used as a children's thank-you card or just as a giant cupcake as shown here. The cupcake liner is done with the "Washington Apple" Designer Series Paper(on sale B3G1F this month).and although it doesn't show up well in this picture, has been run through the Paper Crimper to give it that true "cupcake" texture! The "Happy Birthday to you!" is from the single stamp, "Birthday Wish", found on page 208 of the catalog. I punched it out with the 1 3/4" Circle punch, then mounted that on a scalloped circle from the Bigz XL Pennant Die. The sprinkles on the Chocolate Chip frosting are made with the now-retired 1/4" circle punch (please, oh please, bring it back, SU!), and the cherry on top was made by stamping on the back side of the Sticky Page paper, cutting out the cherry, then transferring it to Close to Cocoa cardstock. After cutting out around the cherry again, I rubbed my embossing buddy over the orange plastic cover, then removed just the plastic over the stem. I sprinkled Chocolate Fine Supernove glitter over the stem, then removed the rest of the cherry's plastic cover and sprinkled the cherry's body with Chunky Essentials red glitter! Voia! The whole cupcake is popped up on the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. The background of Close to Cocoa has been wheeled with the "Daisy Dash" jumbo wheel and a Close to Cocoa jumbo cartridge.

Now what you've all been waiting for!!!!!!!:

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Isn't this cool? And even better, it was actually easy to do! This is just my second attempt, and the only reason I'm not displaying my first sample is that it's a rather boring solid Pink Pirouette! This cake "pops" out at you when you open the card, and is just darling! I do have a few tips for ease of assembly and presentation, but those tips are only relevant as your are assembling the cake, so I hope you will RSVP to me soon to come to the class at 10 a.m or 2 p.m. Saturday where you get to make TWO of these cards, along with 8 more!

I've done ALOT of stamping today, so I will be back tomorrow with more to show you!

Until tomorrow,

Wonderful Friend "Anybody" Card!

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Here's another Papercropper Stamp-a-Stack card. (we will be scheduling another one for July, so keep an eye on my Events Calendar, the link is on the right sidebar of this blog!) We used the "Wonderful Favorites" stamp set and "Good Morning Sunshine" Designer Paper.(ANOTHER DSP that will be retiring on June 30th!) This is a cute card. Mark received one like it on the Stampin' Up! Bermuda Cruise last year. I signed him up for a Husband Card Swap (they swapped CARDS, NOT spouses!). It was pretty cool to see 20 hubby's all lined up swapping cards!

Anyhoo, roll forward 10 months to Mark's birthday in February. The kids are all giving him his gifts and cards when he opens one and says, "This is a nice card, I MADE IT!!!!!" Now, he didn't really make it all, but he did help me put the stars on it with stampin' dimensionals, but whatever, it was just so cute to hear him say he made it! (The extra cards really pile up around here, so periodically I give my daughters free reign to go through the Forget-me-Not keepers and take what they want. I'm really (hoping) putting Hallmark out of business!!!!)

We will be making other really cute cards when?

Come to my house on Saturday, May 16th at 10 a.m or 2 p.m. for my Birthday Blowout Stamp-a-Stack. For $20 you will make 10 birthday cards, including one using the new Stampin' Up! Bigz Die, the Pop-up-Cake! I will have a sample of this pop-up cake to show you in just a few days, so keep looking!

RSVP to me at 618-237-6281   or email me:carol@carolpaynestamps.com

Happy Mother' Day! A Little Birdie Told Me! and Birthday Stamp-a-Stack details!

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Happy Mother's Day everyone! This little birdie is such a little gossip, but the good thing about him is he only tells good news! This card was another one of the All Occasion cards at the Papercropper last month. (We are scheduling another one in July, so keep checking my SU! website calendar (link on my right sidebar) for the date!)
The DSP used on this card is Washington Apple, another Designer Series Paper on sale this month B3G1F, and I expect it will be retiring on June 30th too! so sad! We also used "A Little Birdie Told Me" stamp set and the 5 Petal Flower punch!

Come to my house on Saturday, May 16th at 10 a.m or 2 p.m. for my Birthday Blowout Stamp-a-Stack. For $20 you will make 10 birthday cards, including one using the new Stampin' Up! Bigz Die, the Pop-up-Cake! I will have a sample of this pop-up cake to show you in just a few days, so keep looking!

RSVP to me at 618-237-6281   or email me:carol@carolpaynestamps.com

Birthday Blowout Stamp-a-stack!

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This is a card we made at an All Occasion Stamp-a-Stack I held at the Papercropper in Marion, IL last month. I love the Bella Rose Designer Series Paper used on this card and will be sad to see it go on June 30th.

Come to my house on Saturday, May 16th at 10 a.m or 2 p.m. for my Birthday Blowout Stamp-a-Stack. For $20 you will make 10 birthday cards, including one using the new Stampin' Up! Bigz Die, the Pop-up-Cake! I will have a sample of this pop-up cake to show you in just a few days, so keep looking!

RSVP to me at 618-237-6281   or email me:carol@carolpaynestamps.com

Tonight is my daughter Alisa's wedding shower at our church, and I have lots to do! Until tomorrow!

Birthday Party Reminder!

Just wanted to remind everyone that even though most of my posts for the next few weeks will most likely be Holiday/Christmas related, Stampin' Up! still has their great 20th Birthday Party promotion going on for selected birthday stamps with a $20 purchase! Check back to this post:Birthday Party Promotion  to view the sets on sale and see the samples I posted that day using one of the sets on sale.

Here are a few more samples I found from my convention swaps:

This sample uses the adorable set, Party Hearty! I cannot give good credit to the maker of this swap, as the back of it only says: jtolkacz, so if you are the creator of this swap, please contact me so I can give you credit!

And this sample uses the multi-purpose set, Crab & Company! Once again, I cannot give credit to the creator, as this swap has nothing written on the back of it! It does use glossy paper, and the technique is a cool one called "Faux Torn Paper"! If you would like to learn how to do this technique or want to order any of the sets on sale this month, call or email me, or go to my Online Ordering button in the upper right corner of this blog to go to my SU! website to order direct!

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Stampin' Up! 20th Birthday Promotion!

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As I promised, the Stampin' Up! 20th year Birthday Party Stamps Promotion is finally here!
Click on this link: 20th Birthday Party Promotion to view all the sets that are on sale at 20% off with a $20 additional purchase of any Stampin' Up! Catalog merchandise.

The card I have posted here uses the new die-cut stamp set Simple Birthday Thanks, and Time to Party, both of which are listed on the sale flyer! I stamped this giant cupcake on the back side of our yummy Sweet Always Designer Series Paper, then again on Pink Pirouette cardstock. After cutting both pieces out I ran the cupcake liner through the Crimper to give it that "authentic" look. (Unfortunately, you can't really see this detail in this picture.) I wheeled the Daisy Dash jumbo wheel with Close to Cocoa ink on Close to Cocoa cardstock. I sanded the "party time" stamp from Time to Party lightly with my sanding block to remove the release from the rubber so the ink wouldn't puddle on the solid surface of the stamp, then stamped the image with Close to Cocoa ink on Whisper White cardstock, then punched with the new Scallop Square punch. I mounted this over a Wide Oval punched piece of Pumpkin Pie and a Word Window punched piece of Chocolate Chip. I added 1/4" circle punched pieces of Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, and Whisper White, and a Regal Rose White Gel pen accented cherry on top!

Then to finish it off, check out the inside:

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I inked the outline of the giant cupcake with a Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write marker and stamped it along with "Celebrate You" from A Little Birthday Cheer (not on sale, sorry) on the Close to Cocoa inside panel. Pretty cute, huh?

This next card uses the same Sweet Always Designer Series Paper and the Scallop Square punch, put in an entirely different way! I used another stamp from Time to Party to stamp on Whisper White cardstock with Chocolate Chip ink, then punched with the Scallop Square punch. I added some 5/8"  Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon, and punched the corners of the Designer paper with the Ticket Corner punch. I colored the cupcake with my Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, and Pretty In Pink Stampin' Write markers.

Whew! I'm definitely keeping myself busy and challenged keeping up this daily blogging! What's next for tomorrow? I think I will show you the Handmade Holidays Simply Sent Card Elements Kit that will be on sale from Oct.4-11th in honor of World Cardmaking Day on Oct. 4th, along with all the rest of the Simply Sent Card Elements Kits and Simply Sent Card Kits. These kits will be on sale at 20% off for a limited time, October 4-11th only! So check back tomorrow!