Make a Cake Birthday Card and Baby Boutique Card

Had the best time making a birthday card for my sweet niece Britta.  I got to use all my new goodies from Stampin' Up! plus some old favorites.  Wish I had come up with this idea on my own but I cased it from a similar one that I saw on Mary Fish's blog.  I just loved the Tangerine Tango and the Lucky Limeade together.  It just seemed to say "Sunshine & Fun".  Perfect for a summer birthday.

The Make a Cake stamp set is great.  It has flags, a pinwheel, and another cake layer to add..  Lots of fun ideas floating in my mind.

My wonderful neighbor had her baby boy yesterday so I decided to do the same card using the new Baby Boutique stamp set.  Isn't the turtle priceless?  And the booties are so sweet...

It was nice to use the Bitty Banner Framelits.  It was so much easier than cutting my own banners.  I have never been able to get the edges quite right.


Fun items used:

Make a Cake Stamp Set - Clear - 126742, Wood - 126740
Baby Boutique Stamp Set - Clear - 126352, Wood - 126350
Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp Set - Clear - 127802, Wood - 115370
One in a Million Stamp Set - Clear - 126382, Wood - 126380
Bitty Banner Framelits - 129267
2 1/2" Circle punch - 120906
BoHo Blossom punch - 119858
DSP Floral District - 126919
DSP Twitterpated - 125406
Tangerine Tango Card stock - 111349
Lucky Limeade Card stock - 122926
Whisper White Card stock - 100730
Island Indigo Card stock - 122923
Lucky Limeade Classic Stampin' Pad - 126984
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad - 126986
Lucky Limeade Stampin' Write Marker - 2011-2013 In Color Collection -123002
Tangerine Tango Stampin' Write Marker - Brights Assortment - 119702
3/16 Corner punch - 119871
Big Shot Die Cutting Machine - 113439
Perfect Pennants Bigz L Die - 123126
Stampin' Dimensionals -104430
Pearl Basic Jewels - 119247

Distressed Technique Butterfly Card

My best friend Sheila and I had the most wonderful time making this card for my son Patrick and her daughter Sarah.  We are celebrating her final year of pharmacy school and his recent B.S degree.  How proud we are of them...

The idea of the card came from the March 2012 magazine Stampin' Success. Wonderful publication that you receive when you are a demonstrator.

We started with a plain sheet of whisper white card stock and painted it with some blue acrylic paint.  When the card stock was dry, we embossed the card stock using the Big Shot and the Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Next we took a sponge dauber and soft suede ink and applied it to the card stock using small circular motions.  We then took a slightly damp soft rag and removed the excess ink.

The results was stunning.  To finish the card, we used Soft Suede card stock as our base. We used the Labels Collection Framelit Die to cut out the frame and then attached it to the base using dimensionals.  The butterfly came from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die set.  Using the butterfly as a pattern, I cut an additional butterfly using a scrap of DSP.  Tied the two butterflies together using a piece of twine coated with soft suede and attached using glue dots.   The "Happy Graduation" came from one of my favorite stamp sets - Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Whisper White Card stock - 100730
Teeny Tiny Wishes  (set of 24)  wood - 115370
Beautiful Wings Embosslit Die - 118138
Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - 120175
Labels Collection Framelits Dies - 125598
Soft Suede Card stock - 115318
Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad - 115657
Sponge Daubers - 102892
Stampin' Dimensionals - 104430
Mini Glue Dots - 103683