Category: Birthday

Karen Burniston Design Challenge Day 2 – Busy Baker

Baker Beaver, Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Stage It Stencils
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This month’s challenge is stencils!  I used Karen Burniston’s new Stage It Stencil – Cherries Layering.  This fun stencil has the cherries on one end and the stems on the other.  Put them together and this is what you get!  This card is 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 and the cherries are stenciled with pearlescent embossing paste colored with Real Red ink.  Can you see the shine?

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The stems are done in Garden Green ink.  It makes such a pretty background.  Baker the Beaver is celebrating with cherry cupcakes while on an action wobble!  The cupcake is part of Baker’s die and the cherry is from Stampin Up’s Cupcake builder punch. (retiring)

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Make sure to check Karen’s blog to see all the wonderful ideas using stencils!  Hugs, Fran

Watercolored Marquee Sneak Peek

Birthday, Marque Messages, Sneak Peek
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Coming soon to a stamp room near you!

Stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and watercolored with an aqua painter and ink – it’s a catalog case of the new set Marquee Messages.  An easy background on the base of the card, I simply stamped in Crumb Cake with Crumb Cake ink.  Add a little washi tape – and you’ve got a great card!  I bet you can’t wait to get this set!  Hugs, Fran

 

Creative Circle April Blog Hop -#Imbringingbirthdaysback

Balloon Celebration, Big Shot Cutie Pie, Birthday, box, Cards, Challenges, Creative Circle, Embossing Folder, Occasions Mini, Picture Perfect, Spring Mini
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In honor of Shannon West’s (from Stampin Up) campaign – I’m Bring Birthday’s back – this month’s Creative Circle Blog Hop is a darling, perpetual calendar!

Creative Circle 4:2016 group

The box has two cubes that can be rotated for the days of the month (remember that the 6 is also the 9), a flip top for the months, and a space int he back to hold your birthday cards so you can actually mail them out!  (I am the worse!)

Creative Circle 4:2016 side

I used the Whisper White Heavy card stock and the It’s My Party Designer Series Paper Pack to make mine.  This paper stack has 48 sheets of double sided paper in it!  My balloons on the front are from Balloon Celebration and are punched out with the matching Balloon Bouquet Punch.

Creative Circle 4:2016 Rose Wonder

This card uses the bow from the Cutie Pie Thinlit, more It’s My Party paper and the Elegant Dot embossing folder.

Creative Circle 4:2016 Picture Perfect

This card uses the Picture Perfect stamp set and Blushing Bride.

Creative Circle 4:2016 Happy Birthday Everyone

And last, but not least, this card uses the Bokeh technique.  You can find it on Splitcoast here.

You can get the pattern here:

To see all the other wonderful designs for this pattern, follow along on our hop!  One lucky person who leaves a comment will win the pattern 🙂  Hugs, Fran

 

Sandra Mott

 Liz Holloway

 Fran Cassidy Sabad – You are here!

Barb  Stencel

Creative Circle 4:2016

Very Bright Sunburst Sayings

Big Shot Sunburst, Birthday, Cards, Sunburst Sayings
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Whoa!  It’s bright!  I was just messing around with the Sunburst Thinlit Die and thought I’d see what it looks like embossed.  So here it is – in all it’s bright glory!  I die cut the sunburst first and then ran it through the Big Shot with Tiny Triangles embossing folder.  The stamp set is Sunburst Sayings and the paper is from It’s My Party Designer Series Paper Pack.  Hugs, Fran

Sparkly Pink Cake

Birthday, Cake Pop Up, Remembering Your Birthday
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Pretty Pink!  The sentiment on this card is from Remembering Your Birthday and it’s perfect for this card. I used the retired Hearts Framelits to make a series of hearts – one stenciled with Karen Burniston’s Flower stencil and glitter, one with the sentiment and one small heart.

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Open it up – and you have a pink Pop It Up Cake with lots of glitter!

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Karen has a great video showing how to make this background.  But be careful – glitter is addicting!  Hugs, Fran

Flower Patch Birthday

Big Shot Flower Fair Framelits, Big Shot Flower Fest, Birthday, Cards, Flower Patch, Uncategorized
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This card uses Flower Patch and the matching die, Flower Fair Framelits.  I tried several color combinations – Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party, So Saffron and Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral and Real Red, Elegant Eggplant and Wisteria Wonder and Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango.  The centers are embellished with the Metal Rimmed Pearls.  Can you think of any other good color combos?  Hugs, Fran

Counting the Years

Big Shot Large Numbers, Birthday, Cards, Party Pants, SAB, Sale a bration
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This card is made with the Large Number Framelits dies and a new Saleabration set coming out of the 15th of this month – Party Pants.  The 1,3 and 5 are die cut and colored underneath and the 2 and 4 are popped up.

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Then I added lots of Candy Dots!  Inspired by one I saw online (I think it was Mama Elephant) that used little numbers, I knew I could make this with the Large Numbers (just fewer numbers.)  I think this would make a cute kiddos card or switch up the numbers, have it say 29 – and send it to me 🙂  Hugs, Fran

Karen Burniston Design Team Challenge Day 1

Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Oval Pull Card, Rectangle Pull Card, Rocky the Crab
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Glitter!  This month challenge is glitter.  That wonderful, sparkly stuff (that stays with all day) and makes all our cards special 🙂  Today’s card is Rocky the crab on an Oval Pull Card.  He’s out on the sparkly sand.  His sunglasses are the Santa glasses from Props 5 covered in Crystal Effects.  His bright, sunny paper is Stampin Up’s Schoolhouse Designer Series paper.

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Glitter is hard to photograph!  It was done with the ECD Silk Microfine glitter in Cool Diamonds.

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Here’s the inside.  The sun is on the mechanism from the Rectangle Pull card and it’s covered in glitter.  The sentiment is computer generated.

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Here’s Rocky taking a better look!  I’m wearing glitter today.  Check out the other cards on Karen’s blog.  Have a sparkly day – Hugs, Fran

Party With Cake

Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini, Party Pop Up Thinlit Dies, Party with Cake
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Party with Cake?  Is there any other way to party?  This is my take on a card on page 6 of the Occasions mini.  The front uses the new Party with Cake set and the Lots of Labels Framelits.

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And the inside uses the Party Pop Up Thinlits die.  To easily attach the letters to the die, I just ran them through my Xyron and made them into sticker.  The pop up only has one fold so it’s easy to make.  Have I said “easy” enough?  Hugs, Fran

Party Pop Up

Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini, Party Pop Up Thinlit Dies
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Another catalog case using the new Party Pop Up dies.  These easy to use dies make your cards hold a fun surprise.  I used the It’s My Party Designer Series Paper Stack.  It has 48 sheets of cute designs!  That’s a lot of paper 🙂

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Inside is the other die – popping out to celebrate.  That’s a fun card!  Hugs, Fran