Delightful Dozen

SO many fun Birthday sets in this year catalog! Delightful Dozen is an all occasion stamp set found on page 167 of the IBC and I love this stamp that is for Birthdays.

• The card base is Melon Mambo cut at 4 1/4" x 11" folded in half with a front of DSP from the Hostess selection called Cheerful Treat. 
• I used Markers in Lucky Limeade, Old Olive and Always Artichoke to color all the Birthday phrases on the stamp, then stamped it onto Whisper White and punched it out with the largest circle punch. Then layered it onto a Melon Mambo die cut circle.
• On a second die cut circle I used Dimensionals to pop up a cupcake punched with the Cupcake Builder punch.  I ran a scrap of Whisper White through the Big Shot in the Manhattan Flower folder to get the swirls for the Cupcake. The Old Olive scrap was ran through the Crimper to make the wrapper of the cupcake.

Still trying to catch up from being gone for two months, I am late on sending swaps to a bunch of my friends(it is a good thing they are understanding) so I am sending in a preorder for the holiday mini and doing laundry while planning my swap- wish me luck!

I hope that you find a chance to stamp today. . .

Happy Birthday America!

I thought this was a fun birthday card, It uses one stamp set and the Cupcake Builder punch.

• The card base is Whisper White with a front of Pretty in Pink that I ran through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper folder.
• I ran a scrap of Whisper White through the Big Shot using the Manhattan Flower folder, I then punched it with the Cupcake Builder Punch, that way I had swirls for the frosting
• I ran Cherry Cobbler CS through the Crimper and then punched it out so that the cupcake wrapper was pleated, and Finally the Cherry is Poppy Parade CS that has Crystal Effects on it.
• The Cupcake was popped up on a Pretty in Pink oval using Dimensionals.
• The oval was placed on a rectangle of Whisper White that had Happy Birthday stamped in Cherry Cobbler at the bottom, the Whisper White was mounted onto a piece of Cherry Cobbler CS and then was added to the card front.

My order from the new catalog should arrive tomorrow, I can't wait!

Fifth Avenue Floral-Manhattan Flower Folder

The card base is Very Vanilla, I ran the front of the card through he Big Shot with the Manhattan Flower folder for the dry embossed background, I then cut along the top edges of the flowers to the fold.

I stamped the Happy Birthday on the inside of the card near the top so that it would show when the card is closed. I used Regal Rose ink to stamp the phrase.

Next I stamped the roses from Fifth Avenue Floral with Versamark and embossed with black embossing powder. I watercolored the shadow areas of the roses with Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose. After watercoloring I spritzed the roses with homemade shimmer mist(shimmer paint and alcohol) so that the roses shimmer in the light.

This card is a card that definitely looks better in real life, it did not photo well enough to show the shimmer and the pink shadows.

This card could be used as a wedding or anniversary card by changing the sentiments.