Category: Birthday

Virgil Birthday

Barn Pop Stand, Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Fabulous Four, Virgil the Pig
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Day 2 for Karen Burniston May Designer Challenge – Barns, Barns, Barns!  Here is Virgil the Pig wishing you a happy birthday.  I used the new Clear stamp, Farm Greetings, stamped in Memento ink and colored with Stampin Write Markers.  The Designer paper in Flower Pot.

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The angle on this picture is sort of wonky but when you open the card, Virgil and his barn pop up!  I left the doors of the Barn open so he looks like he’s walking out to greet you!  Love that about this barn!

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There, that’s better!  His barn is decorated with a little Flag Punch banner. Fun!  Hugs, Fran

Party ’til the Cows Come Home

Barn Pop Stand, Birthday, Brownie the Cow, Cards, Lots of Pops, Occasions Mini, Spiral Pull Card, Spring Mini
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Today is day one for Karen Burniston’s Design Team May Challenge – Barns, Barns, Barns!  And I bring you Brownie the Cow getting ready to party 🙂  The stamp is from Life’s Adventure (a Stampin Up hostess set that’s getting ready to retire!) on some very fun Birthday Bash Designer Series paper.

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The cake was colored with Copic markers and the party hat is from Karen’s Props 2 die set.

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And here’s the herd at the barn- what a celebration!  The barn Pop It Ups stand fits perfectly into the fold – holding up the barn (which is holding up the cows!) The word bubble is computer generated and the sentiment is from Sassy Salutations.  The balloons (from the Spiral Pull Card die) are on fishing line.  You can easily face the cows in any direction by simply flipping the die cuts over.

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I added 1 3/4″ to my barn to make it higher by simply gluing an extra piece of yardstick on the bottom of the front and back barn. You can check out all the other cards on Karen’s Facebook page!  Hugs, Fran

 

Cupcake with Sprinkles

Birthday, Cards, Sneak Peek, Sprinkles of Life
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One more Sprinkles of Life – a cupcake!  This shows the Designer Series paper – Cherry on Top.  It’s a great 6 x 6 paper stack (Bermuda Bay, Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White.)  The cupcake is on the smallest Deco Framelit and the banner underneath is made with the new Triple Banner punch!  Don’t you just love the colors in this DSP?  Happy Mothers Day to all the women out there making a difference in a child’s life.  Hugs, Fran

Looking at the Retiring List – Apothecary Art

Apothecary Art, Birthday, Cards, Retiring Lists, Sympathy
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Some of my favorites are retiring soon and one is Apothecary Art.  With it’s matching framelits, this set is a “go-to” for Sympathy, Thank You and Birthday cards.  Thought I’d share some cards I’ve done over the years with this set – sort of a Throwback Thursday!

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I’ll miss it when it’s gone – but I’ve enjoyed it while it was current!  Hugs, Fran

You can see the retiring lists here. 

 

Pop It Up From the Herd

Barn Pop Stand, Birthday, Brownie the Cow, Cheepers the Chicken, Occasions Mini, Spring Mini, Virgil the Pig
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Karen Burniston has come out with a new line of Pop It Ups – and they fit perfectly with the stamp set From the Herd!  One the dies is the Barn Pop Stand (1021).  I used it on the front of this card!  And the doors slide open and closed!

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Inside is Cheepers the Chicken (1023), Brownie the Cow (1022), and Virgil the Pig (1024)!  And they are all celebrating 🙂

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The party hat is from Props 2 and the balloons are from the Spiral Pull Card.  What a fun, fun set of dies!

Groovy Baby March Designer Challenge

Birthday, Bombs Away Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Groovy Love, Oval Accordion, Rectangular Accordion Die, Whiskers
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Today is the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge for March – Funny Cards!  I started with Whiskers the Cat, the Oval and Rectangular Accordion dies and Flashback Designer Series paper.  Whiskers is looking pretty sharp in his 70’s garb and bling glasses!  His scarf is the collar with a hand cut little piece at the end. “Groovy” is from Groovy Love.

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Inside is a sentiment from one of the SU Photopolymer stamps – Bombs Away Birthday. It has some really fun sayings.  You can “rock on” by heading over Facebook to Karen’s page to see what all the other designers have created this month!

Birthday Pull Card

Birthday, Cards, Evergreen Tree Pivot Card, Rectangular Pull Card, Remembering Your Birthday, SAB, Sale a bration
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It’s been snowing here – really, really snowing.  17 inches of snow!  So I’ve been coloring 🙂  This is Saturated Canary’s Ellie’s Birthday on a Pop It Ups Rectangular Pull Card using Remembering Your Birthday as the sentiment on Best Year Ever Designer Series paper – colored with Copic markers!  Did I mention we had a big snow?

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When you open it up, balloons from Pop It Ups Props 2 and packages from the Evergreen Pivot card decorate the inside.

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And the sentiment says it all!  I’ve pulled everything I own out while doing this card! (Did I mention it snowed?) Hugs, Fran

Funky Cakes Big Day

Big Day, Birthday, Cards, Oval Accordion, Rectangular Accordion Die, SAB, Sale a bration
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Sparkly, birthday fun!  This is the Sale-a-bration set, Big Day, combined with some EDC Peel Offs called Funky Cakes – and lots of glitter- on a Karen Burniston’s Pop It Ups Rectangular Accordion die and Oval Accordion die.  The paper is Birthday Bash Specialty paper and all the colors are taken from this color combo.  I colored the cake with Blendabilities and Copics. I masked off half the sentiment, stamped it twice, and popped up the “celebrate.”

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Bright and happy!  The Oval Accordion has the rest of the sentiment from the front.  (Again, mask off and stamp)  Looks like a party to me!  Hugs, Fran

Balloon Bash, Birthday, Cards, Occasions Mini, Spring Mini
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Here is my take on one of my favorite cards demonstrated by Carrie Cudney at Stampin Up’s Leadership conference.  It uses Balloon Bash and some of the new (and wonderful) chalkboard paper.  The background is a piece of Back to Black Designer Series paper colored with Blendabilities.  It took me a while to figure out that mine is so much darker than hers because I used Melon Mambo and she must have use Pink Pirouette!  I finished my take on this card with gold twine and sequins – a perfect combo!  Hugs, Fran

World of Dreams Artsy Challenge

Birthday, Cards, Challenges, Katie Label Pivot, World of Dreams
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The Karen Burniston Designer Challenge this month is to do an “artsy” card and a “cute” card.  This is my artsy card, using World of Dreams stamp set and Typeset Designer Series paper and the Double High technique.  Since this paper is very light (book page) I decided to paint it with acrylic paint to add some heft, and then splattered it with black ink.  I embossed the image on the front with black embossing powder, added some Crumb Cake seam binding, washi tape, some punches from the Bird Builder punch and a button.

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On the inside I used a Happy Birthday sticker and the ECD die Berry Branch.  Fun to make – and hard to quit adding things to it!  I hope you’ll check out all the projects on Karen’s Facebook page.  Hugs, Fran