RainyDay Stamper

Flirtatious Fun!

How is this for a cheery card, perfect to send to one of my crazy relatives!  Using up more of my retiring DSP, the Pumpkin Pie piece is from Flirtatious Speciality and the striped Daffodil Delight from Big Top Birthday.  Loving the bright colours, have been drawn to them lately, I think due to the need for summer to arrive.  We are getting teased with a couple of beautiful sunny days only to return to the cold, damp rainy days.  It's almost June, we need summer!!

The little monster is from Make a Monster and stamped in Black Stazon and coloured in with my Watercolour crayons and a blender pen, then outlined with my Sahara Sand marker to make him jump off the page.

Happy Stamping,

It was a Monster Mash

Remember that song- loved it and really enjoy it when I hear it on the radio nowadays. Well my son has a friend whose birthday is October 31st and he asked me to make him a card-gee, let's ask me to do a male card, someone I don't know and it's not like they are 6 anymore and anything goes.  But what surprised me the most was how easy and quick this card was!  Funny how that works isn't it.  

So how did I figure out what to do, first I decided to use Crumb Cake as my base and pulled out the Just add Cake DSP pack and my fall to guy birthday card stamp set-Make a Monster.  I ended up using four different stamp sets but since I have organized my room, it is so easy to find them. I said this was a quick card so rather than paper piecing my "Monster" I stamped on watercolour paper and just used my Aquapainter  to colour him in.  The sentiment is from Bring on the Cake and chose this sentiment as I wanted something that would work well on the watercolour paper.  I find if I stamp a solid stamp on watercolour paper, the results aren't to my liking.  So want to see the card?

Ok I will admit, after I did the focal image I decided with his hand up in the arm, he needed balloons so back into the stamp cupboard for Party Hearty, and quickly cut those out and using dimensionals add them to the card using our White Baker's twice to make the strings and a rolled up glue dot to attach them to him hand.  He needed a hat and the best set for that is Beary Best Friends and it too is attached with a dimensional.

Did you find the DSP, I used it as a mat for the image panel.  Inside I kept it simple

Another stamp from Party Hearty and the sentiment is from Full of Life.

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Would you smile?

 If something this cute was sticking its tongue out at you?  Here is a super quick and easy birthday card using believe it or not, Melon Mambo (I know it looks like Real Red in the picture) and Certainly Celery.  The little strip of DSP is retired, but when you have just a scrap, you've got to use it up!

Happy Stamping,

Monsters and Ghosts

So last week, I apparently missed posting the card and just gave you a teaser of words, so I am blaming it on  Ghosts.  When I was young, when things went missing in our home, we blamed it on Ghosts, so Ghosts must have taken my post!  The stamp set, Make a Monster is such a cute set, and since my hubby was turning 50 and still is a big kid, I thought Make a Monster would be a perfect set to use for his card.  Add on Bring on the Cake set from the Occasions Mini and you have quite the card

 I used Pear Pizzazz as the base and stamped random circles from Circle Circus using Old Olive ink.  In the circles, I stamped various eyes from the Make a Monster set.  The  Whisper White image panel is framed with Early Expresso using the Scallop Edge punch along the bottom and has the images stamped in Early Expresso.  I coloured in the 5 & 0 using my Pear Pizzazz marker and then put Crystal Effects over them making them really stand out

 The Monster body is stamped onto a bit of Pear Pizzazz DSP and then cut out and attached over the Early Expresso body.  A perfect birthday card, for those young at heart.

Happy Stamping,

Birthday bring out the child

in all of us right?  Ok maybe not the child in us but memories of our birthdays when we were a child.

 

Do you ever feel like

a monster has invaded your body when you are sick?

 Well, this card is ME when I am sick!  I am loving this Make a Monster set, the images are just fun.  I used the same layout as yesterday and used the self adhesive die cuts from the Ice Cream Parlour Designer Series Paper & Quick Accents pack.  These die cuts are perfect for scrapbook pages or cards.  The sentiment is from Word Play and stamped in Pacific Point ink.

Happy Stamping,

 

It's more than just stamps

that you can get FREE during Sale-a-bration.  Ice Cream Parlour is a Designer Series Paper & Quick Accents pack.  You get nine sheets, 3 each of 3 double sided designs 12 X 12 and two  sheets of self adhesive die cuts.  This paper is Stampin' Up's usual superior quality and uses Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait, Old Olive and Pacific Point for colors. 

Check out this little birthday card & package

 To choose my colors I started with the DSP. The card is a Whisper White base, Daffodil Delight background and a strip of the Old Olive DSP.  The image from Make a Monster is stamped using Basic Grey ink onto Whisper White and again onto Old Olive.  I stamped the eyes and mouth onto the Old Olive and cut out the body and layered it onto the Whisper White.  The sentiment is from the Level One Hostess set, Afterthoughts and stamped using Pacific Point ink. 

 The feet are colored with Pumpkin Pie marker. Now the bag is a simple folded bag and I have used Whisper White grosgrain to hold it closed.  The tag is also made from the Hostess set, Afterthoughts and is colored with Pumpkin Pie marker so that I could easily omit part of the wording.

 Punch out with the Large Tag Punch and layered onto Pacific Point and attached with hemp twine. As usual, Stampin' Up takes the guesswork out of what goes with what as coordinating colors are listed with the DSP.

Happy Stamping,