Elegant Bird Valentine & MDS–FREE!

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Isn’t this great?  It was a simple valentine card we made at this week’s 1st Wednesday Card Club using the Elegant Bird Sizzix Die and Sale-A-Bration Designer Series Papers!

Textured Impressions Embossing Folders add a lot of dimension to both bird and lace/button embellished heart.  The tiny pinked hearts border punch seemed appr0priate for a Valentine card, don’t you think?

The elegant bird’s eye is a basic jewel rhinestone colored with a black sharpie marker… lol, placed on Baja Breeze card stock, it reflected more of the blue color vs. black and presented a very pretty dark blue hue.

This card has more of a 3-dimensional effect… both wing and heart are popped up on the card surface.  Perhaps a little too dimensional for an ordinary USPS mailing envelope… a bit more secure if placed in a bubble envelope or inside the box with a Valentine gift!

Hope you enjoyed today’s club card… we’ll be starting up a new round of card clubs in March… contact me if you’d like to join one or more of my current clubs for the next round!

I look forward to reading your comments!

Hugs,

Sharon

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Mixed Bunch Club Card with Free DSP!

During yesterday’s Stamping Club Meeting, participants made three cards featuring FREE Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper from Page 7 of the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.  What’s not to love?  The papers have a naturally vintage ‘feel'… distressed and worn, along with gorgeous colors complimented by the 2011-13 In Color Collection!

When I first saw this new Blossom Punch in the Occasions Mini Catalog, I thought (like we all did, LOL) that I definitely did NOT need another flower punch… OH BOY, WAS I WRONG!!  I have used this new punch over, and over for the past few weeks!!  My DD would say “Mom, step away from that punch!”  But it’s quite versatile and fun, and coordinates perfectly with the Mixed Bunch stamp set too!

The blossom shown above was punched once from a scrap of Poppy Parade card stock, and then stamped onto very vanilla card stock using Baja Breeze Classic Ink, and punched out.   

Leaves were punched from Lucky Limeade card stock using the blossom builders punch, scored down the center and creased in half.  All leaves and layers were attached to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals aka “pop dots”.  LOL, of course stampin’ dimensionals are not just any pop dots… they’re the paper craft industry top rated dots.. ultra thin, and ultra sticky too!

This card has a relatively low profile… but will require additional postage… three layers of pop dots plus an 8mm pearl jewel do add a bit of bulk.

Sentiments inside and outside the card are from the Happiest Birthday Wishes Hostess stamp set, which has 11 birthday orientated sentiments… too cool!

Tomorrow I’ll share another fun card club and sale-a-bration / occasions mini product card.  I hope you’ll stop  back by to say hi!

I look forward to reading your comments, and thank you SO much for shopping at my online stampin’ up! store!   I couldn’t keep up this pace without a little help from my stamping friends!

Hugs,
Sharon

Supplies used on today’s Club Card Share:

Stamps:  Mixed Bunch, Happiest Birthday Wishes (hostess)

Classic Inks:  Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake

Papers:  Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper, Naturals Ivory, Poppy Parade, Very Vanilla

Terrific Tools:  Blossom Punch, Blossom Builders Punch

Accessories:  Sale-A-Bration Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Sponge

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SQSC24 White on White With A Pop !

White on White cards (aka WOW! cards) make one of my favorite card color combinations… always elegant I’ve done them as Wedding, Christmas, and birthday cards too!

Today, I’m taking the Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge using the White on White palette, but adding just a tiny pop of color… in this case, Brushed Silver.

A lot of tools were used on today’s card too… the Big Shot Die Cutting Machine, Paper Doily Large Sizzlits Die, 3-1/2” and 3” circle dies, 2-1/2” and 1-3/4” Circle Punches, 1” Square Punch, and five different textured impressions embossing folders:Finial Press, Stripes, Square Lattice, Petals-a-Plenty, and Perfect Polka Dots.

The embossing folders added a lot of texture to an otherwise flat card and presentation.  Only the 1-3/4” embossed circle, sentiment, and paper daisies were popped up with stampin’ dimensionals!

A small 3/4” accent brushed silver card stock embossed with stripes lends a metallic ‘feel’ to the card, and basic jewel rhinestones were added to the centers of each layered paper daisy.

Congratulations seemed like an appropriate sentiment for today’s card, which could be sent for an anniversary, wedding, or even promotion!  Whisper White and Brushed Silver card stock were snipped at one end using a 1” square punch before layering and attaching to the card front.

Here’s today’s Stampin’ Queens Design Team Challenge Sketch!  I hope you’ll be inspired to play along… after creating your very own sketch inspired art work, visit the Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge Blog to share your creation!  You know the drill!

I look forward to reading your comments, and hope you’ll be inspired to play along too!

Hugs,

Sharon

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