Happiest Birthday Wishes

I CASEd myself this time, here is a link to the card I CASEd http://kath-allthatscrap.blogspot.com/2010/08/after-thoughts-hostess-level-1.html and here is my new card

I added this card to the Tuesday Stamping Buffet.

• Card base is Lucky Limeade with the greeting from the Hostess set Happiest Birthday Wishes was stamped on the base in Early Espresso.
• The cake is made with the following punches: 1", 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" square punches, tapered and corners rounded, Pinking Hearts Border punch, Cupcake Builder punch(candles) on a plate make with the Scallop Oval punch
• The middle cake layer was ran through the Big Shot in the Starburst embossing folder.
• CS used: Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Regal Rose, and Daffodil Delight.
• I added Dazzling Details to the candle flames.

Cute As A Bug!

It has been fun pulling out retired sets and using them again, as a demonstrator it seems that we spend so much time planning for events(ans that requires current sets) that often sets that we loved sit unused.  I am lucky two of my neighbors as well as good friends have been customers of SU for almost as long as I have.  I borrowed sets from them as I was making cards to fill my order for our local store that is carrying my cards.  This Valentine uses the set Cute as a Bug.

• The card base is Real Red.
• I cut a piece of Regal Rose with the Label Framelit and then ran it through the Big Shot again with the Starburst embossing folder. I cut a piece of Glittery retired DSP with a smaller Framelit and with the next size smaller I cut a piece of Very Vanilla CS.
• With Stazon I stamped the Spider on the piece of Very Vanilla CS, underneath it I stamped "Be Mine" in Real Red.  
• I added a small black heart from the Fashionable Hearts Embosslit, then I added a small heart punched from the Silver Glitter paper, to make it pink I actually sponged Cherry Cobber on it.

Framelits and Embossing Folders add so much to a simple card.

P.S. I Love You- En Francais

Here is another of the Valentine cards I delivered to a local store.

• Card base is Crumb Cake, a front of Whisper White with a Cherry Cobbler layer that was ran through the Big Shot with the Starburst Embossing folder.
• On a piece of Whisper White I stamped the background stamp En Francais with Crumb Cake, I also sponged the edges with Crumb Cake.
• On a scrap of Naturals White I stamped the phrase from P. S. I Love You in Cherry Cobbler and punched it out with the postage Stamp punch. I sponged the edges with Crumb Cake and added it to the front of the card.
• I over stamped the stamp with the post mark from P. S. I Love You in Cherry Cobbler.
• I decided to add the post mark from French Foliage as well this is in Crumb Cake stamped on the back ground piece.

I have been using a lot of retired sets to make cards for the order I delivered to Stokes (a local store here in my town). I will show those in the coming days, it was fun to pull out old favorites and play with them.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Apothecary Art

Somethings you might want to know:

1. Sale-a-bration starts tomorrow! For every $50 you spend you can choose some free product.
2. The catalog year at Stampin' UP! is changing the new catalog will begin on JUNE 1 not on July 1, what does that mean to you? If you love the  in colors that came out the summer of 2010(Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride, Peach Parfait and Poppy Parade) they will be gone in the catalog that begins June1, so now is the time to stock up.
3. There will only be two mini catalogs a year they will be larger in size and have more pages and each will last 5 month.
4. Decor Elements and the Simply Adorned will not be carried in the new catalog, those lines will be discontinued. 

So on to a card. . .

This card uses Framelits and Edgelits and two stamp sets from the Occasions Mini!

• The card base is Whisper White with the front edge cut with an Edgelit. I strip of Pink Pirouette was also cut to match and adhered to the inside of the card. 
• Using the Label Framelits I cut Marina Mist CS and with a nesting size cut a Pink Pirouette Label, the Marina Mist Label was run through the Big Shot with the Starburst Embossing Folder.
• I stamped the image from Apothecary Art with Versamark onto Whisper White CS and heat embossed it with Black Embossing powder. I then colored the flowers lightly with a Blender Pen and Marina Mist Ink. I then hand cut it out close the the line so that it would leave a small line of Pink Pirouette showing under it.
• The phrase is from Loving Thoughts and was stamped in Marina Mist.

I hope that you have a wonderful day.