Dynamic Duos......Birthday Balloons

Happy Saturday Peeps!

Today over on Dynamic Duos we have a great new color challenge for you:

I started looking through my stamp sets to find one to use with these colors and pulled out this great set from Stampin Up called "Up, Up and Away. I love this set but have rarely used it, so it was due for some "ink love".

I stamped one hot air balloons with Cherry cobbler and one with Pool Party and then used my markers for the third one. I die cut a circle with my nesties and stamped the hot air balloon bases and then embossed using the cloudy Day EF. I cut out the balloons and added them to the embossed piece with some dimensionals  I then used a scallop circle nestie to mat the main image piece.

The base of the card is Cherry Cobbler and then I used a layer of white and and then some Crumb Cake card stock that I embossed with the perfect dots EF.

The DSP on here is from the Sycamore Street pack and I added a white scallop strip across the bottom of the designer paper. The main panel is added with dimensionals to the base. I used a sentiment from the same set and stamped with black onto a scrap of white and punched out with my 1 inch circle punch and then used cherry cobbler with my 1-1/4 inch circle punch to mat the sentiment. 

No ribbon and no pearls! 

Be sure and hop on over to the Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

to see what the rest of the team did with these colors.

Thanks for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Seize the Birthday....Happy Dirtday!

Happy Tuesday Peeps! 

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch at Seize the Birthday.

This week is masculine week, so I pulled out my Stampin Up "I Dig You" stamp set. 

I think this dump truck is just the cutest thing!!1

I stamped the truck with Island Indigo and Real Red and then cut out the pieces I wanted to use. I then stamped the wheels using my black stazon pad and cut them out. I used my markers to color the presents and stamped and cut them out.

I made the "dirt" using some soft sued card stock and tearing it across one edge and then used my soft sued ink pad directly on the paper to add some color. I added the soft suede "dirt to some whisper white card stock, I then assembled the dump truck on that piece. I matted this with some Island Indigo card stock. 

The base of the card is real red and then I used a layer of old olive that I embossed with the stripes EF. I added some twine across the bottom of the main panel and then added this to the old olive embossed piece with some dimensionals. The sentiment is from the same set and stamped with black onto white and then punched out with the decorative label punch and added under the main panel. 

Thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki 

Merry Monday....Warm Wishes

Merry Monday Peeps!!!

Today Lesley at Always Playing with Paper has a fun new sketch for us:

As you can see I flipped the sideways.

I did struggle a bit with this one, but once I got into it and decided on my image and paper, it came together fairly quickly, well quickly for me anyway, I sometimes spend two, three or more hours on one card. 

I did add an extra flag for my sentiment, but I think it looks alright.

The base of the card is Cherry Cobbler card stock and all the DSP on here is  from the Festival of Prints pack.

 I stamped and die cut two mugs from the Scentsational Season stamp set and Holiday collection framelit dies make cutting the mugs out super easy! I made the "steam" using some vellum card stock. 

Cute huh?

Now be sure and hop on over to Lesley's Blog to see what the rest of the Merry makers did with this great sketch

Thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki