Simply Charmed ... It's Your Birthday!

I recently sold some of my cards ... yah for me! A friend asked if I would make a couple of birthday cards for her to give to her mother and mother-in-law. I made six, to give her a choice, and she pick three ... this was one of them.

I used patterned paper from Echo Park, cardstock from Stampin' Up, and a flower from the Simply Charmed Cricut cartridge. I dressed the flower up a bit with some doodling and I used pop dots between each layer. The sentiment is a stamp from Verve Stamps. I stamped it using Versamark ink and then embossed it with white embossing powder. To finish, I added a little blue ribbon. Simply and fun!

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My Pink Stamper Design Team Project - Family

The design team theme for May at My Pink Stamper is "Family". My husband and I both have large families ... he's the second of eight children and I'm the youngest of six. So I thought I would make a calendar/card holder to help keep track of everyone's special days. This is actually a very quick and easy project ... I'm sure I'll be making more of these for gifts!

I used the Card Organizer tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers ... look for it here, and the calendar is a PDF file ... you can find it here.

The details -

Size: Front and back covers 6.25" x 8", inside pages 6" x 7.75"

Paper: 12" x 12" double sided paper and coordinating card stock from Stampin' Up

Cricut: Owl and branch from 'Create a Critter' 

Sentiment: Stamps from My Pink Stamper's Everyday Occasions and Simply Sweet Occasions sets; stamped with Versa Mark

Extras: Ribbon, Cuttlebug and embossing folders, computer generated calendar, Bind-it-All


Now, head on over to My Pink Stamper to see what my design team sisters have come up with ... their "Family" projects are AWESOME!!

Happy Birthday Chris

I made this for my friend Chris ... today is her birthday. Chris is an awesome scrapbooker. I'm hoping that someday she'll "go public" with her work. I'd love for you all to see what she can do!

This card was super easy and I really like the look of it. To create the background paper, I used three little flower stamps with VersaMark Dazzle ink and then added some pink self-adhesive pearls. I topped it off with a punched border & ribbon and was done!

My Pink Stamper - Challenge #8

Challenge # 8 is "Love My Color". The challenge is to create a monochromatic project and add a flower. My flower is in the stamped image. I used Versamark Dazzle to keep with the monochromatic theme.

Here are the rest of the details:

Cardstock - Stampin' Up

Patterned Paper - Designer Digitals

Image - Stampendous

Extras - Ribbon, EK Success border punch, pop dots, self-adhesive pearl

Floral Sympathy Card

Unfortunately, I needed to make a sympathy card for a co-worker and dear friend who just lost her brother after a long battle with cancer. I just couldn't make myself use black and white, so I chose pink and brown instead.

The card stock and sentiment stamp (Mega Mixed Messages set) are from Papertrey Ink and the image is from a Stampendous set called Floral Swirls. I only inked and stamped a portion of the image. Both the image and the sentiment were stamped using brown ink. I added some ribbon and a few self-adhesive pearls.

For the inside, I printed a computer generated sentiment. Then, using Versamark Dazzle in the champagne color, I stamped the entire flower image over my sentiment.

Be Merry

This is the last of my Christmas cards. I made a dozen of these to send to family and friends. The patterned paper is from a DCWV Christmas pack and, for the light teal layer, I used a snowflake stamp from Stampin' Up with Champagne Versa Mark to create a soft back ground. The 'be merry' is a stamp from Whipper Snappers. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the leaves and added some self-adhesive pearls.

For the inside, more Versa Mark snowflakes on a medium teal layer. The sentiment stamp is from Stampendous.