Chevron Happy Birthday

Every year, a few of my college friends and I get together and we celebrate our birthdays. We have one December birthday, two January birthdays, and one September birthday but we usually aim to meet sometime between January-March. We all have work, school, extra-curricular, and/or family obligations plus one of us drives from out of town, so you can just imagine how difficult it is to find a Saturday that accomodates all of our schedules. Well, this past Saturday was our day. We went to see a play, had dinner at a nice restaurant, and then came back here to exchange presents, have cake and do a little beading!  

 

I opted to make the same style birthday card for each of them. I was really intrigued with this sketch from the Clean and Simple Stamping Blog.

I really love the example which uses the negative space for the word and wanted to try that out. The sketch was from the 15th but I hadn't had a chance to play with it because I've had tennis elbow (from stirring sand, alum, and cornstarch together in a pot on the stove to make treasure rocks for my preschoolers -- how do I explain that to people?!) and I have had to rest my arm. But there's nothing that motivates me like a deadline so I worked on Saturday morning...yes the morning before we were to meet! I used my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to make quick work of cutting the letters out of my Lagoon (teal) cardstock and got three panels with the word, "HAPPY," cut out of them, lickedy-split! It's difficult to see but the paper backing the, "HAPPY," panel is a lighter blue houndstooth pattern from a long retired CTMH paper called Splendor. I added the little flower from the Card word Puzzle set stamped on honey for a little pop (and I popped it up with foam tape)!

 

 

Supplies Used (All CTMH)--

Patterned Paper: For Always (love that chevron pattern) and a scrap of blue houndstooth from the retired set called Splendor (used behind the HAPPY)

Cardstock: Lagoon, Honey, White Daisy, Black

Stamp pad: Archival Black

Stamp sets: Card Word Puzzle and Card Chatter-Birthday (I cut Birthday... off of the rest of it's sentiment-you could just mask it too)

Embellishments: Baker's Twine Neutral Assortment, Opaques Licorice Adhesive Gems, foam tape

 

I have also been wanting to play along with the Heart2Heart challenges but my arm has been bugging me too much. I was so happy to see that this week's chalenge is for  CAS-Clean and Simple. Yay! So I'm linking this post up to this week's challenge at H2H.

 

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I Heart You

I used Clean and Simple's Sketch #223 to make this card. I also used the stamp set and Silver Glitter Paper from the current Constant Campaign, Whooo's Your Valentine. In case you're interested, you might want to purchase sooner rather than later as the supply for it was down to 39% the last time I checked! I am also giving you a sneak peek at Chantilly, one of the new papers that will be available with our new catalog starting on February 1st. The pink patterned paper is the one from Chantilly. Isn't it yummy?
I'm also entering my card in Oozak's Challenge #10: Anything Goes with Pink and Bling.

 

Supplies Used (All CTMH except where noted)--

Stamp Pads: Chocolate, Saddle Ruby

Stamps: Whooo's Your Valentine

Cardstock: Crystal Blue, Hollyhock, Silver Glitter

Patterned Paper: Chantilly (NEW-available 2/1/13)

Dies: Nestabilities Standard Circle Small, Scalloped Circles Large

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Seeing Spots

Alcohol Markers: Honey

Embellishments: Opaques Licorice (owl eyes), Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut banners

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Clean and Simple Sketch #196

After the last day of Scramp Camp, I found myself looking at a ton of scraps on my dining table. It was the Clean and Simple Stamping blog to the recue! Sketch #196 is a wonderful scrap user upper. I can see my self using this sketch often.

I decided to combine squares from three different papers which each had circle patterns on them and which had similar colors. I'm really loving circle patterns lately! I cut the Colonial White banner using my CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, inked up the edges of the banner, and then stamped a sentiment from the Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set.

The best part of this process was that I had enough time and paper to make some multiples. Maybe I'll finally have some cards on hand when I need them!

Supplies used (all CTMH except for green scraps): (D1475) Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set, (Z2114) Cocoa stamp pad, (Z1686) Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge, Colonial White cardstock, Buttercup cardstock, (retired) Caboodle paper scraps, (retired) Good Times

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Happy Day

Wouldn't this sketch make a pretty card all on its own? I love it!

This sketch is from the Clean and Simple Stamping blog. I had a chance to stamp and make cards with Heather and Debbie today so that got me in the creative mood. It also helped that I had my stamping supplies out and that I got a new order of stamps and embellishments in the mail today! So exciting! Check out that corrugated star...it comes in the package of Milepost Shapes. I broke out my new Blue Ribbon stamp set to make my card.

My mom is so sweet and always sends cards for special days. It's not as easy as it used to be for her to go out and get cards from the store, so I try to send her a bunch of handmade cards every once in awhile. She always goes through them faster than I can make them though! Anyway, I'm hoping to make duplicates of this card to include in a package for her (along with some others).

Supplies used: (C1464) Blue Ribbon stamp set, (X7139B) Typeset paper pack, (Z2165) Juniper stamp pad, (Z2162) Honey stamp pad, (Z2114) Cocoa stamp pad, (Z1484) Milepost ShapesPin It

Clean and Simple Sketch 143

Here's a quick card I made using the sketch on the Clean and Simple Stamping Blog. I used my You and Me kit (papers and stamps) again.

Supplies used: (CC1012B) You and Me Kit, (1245) Olive cardstock, (Z2167) Creme Brulee stamp pad, (Z2120) Garden Green stamp pad, (Z2111) Chocolate stamp pad, Retired textured paper (for card base), (Z1151) 3-D Foam Tape

I really like this sketch and think it's a pretty versatile one. I can see making many variations on it. Here's the original Clean and Simple #143 sketch.

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Clean and Simple Sketch 133

I've had these pretty Martha Stewart flowers in my stash for a little while. I inherited them from a friend who is much better about cleaning out her supplies than I am. Good thing I am teaching preschool and have a place to use all my crafting supplies! Anyway, when I saw this Clean and Simple sketch, I immediately thought about these flowers and the Sweetheart papers from CTMH.



The black strip under the flowers is the reverse side of the polka dotted pink paper. It's just a muted version of the same pattern. This was a nice and quick card!

Supplies used: (D1475) Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set, (X7134B) Sweetheart Level 2 paper packet, Martha Stewart Flowers, (Z2103) Black stamp padPin It

A Little Buzz

I used a variation of Sketch 121 from the Clean and Simple stamping blog for this card. I changed where I put the sentiment and extended the paper to go further down the card. I love the sweet little images on this stamp set, A Little Buzz. Now, I'd really love to get some copics to be able to color them in...but that will have to wait for the future! I have a friend who just had her second child and I thought this might be a good card for the new big brother. This will be one of the cards we will make at my 'Stock the Box' card workshop next weekend.

Supplies Used: (B1353) A Little Buzz stamp set, (X7127B)Magnifique Level 2 paper pack, (Z2105) Black stamp pad, (Z2195) Lagoon stamp pad, (Z2394) Sky marker, (Z2395) Lagoon marker, (Z2318) Desert Sand marker, nestabilitiesPin It