"Under the Big Top" - House Warming Card

Happy Sunday!

As we gear up for the week ahead, I wanted to share a card with you that I created for my friend and manager, Stephanie.  She was throwing a house warming party to celebrate her first apartment in Toronto and invited all of to share in the joyous moment.  So I wanted to create something fun to match her personality. This is the card that I came up with:

This stamp set is one of my favourites, it's called "Under the Big Top" (page 63) and I used the coordinating Designer Series Paper called
"Big Top Birthday" (page 62).  The ink colours I used are the ones featured in the paper are called Tempting Turquoise and Poppy Parade.  The pennants that spell out the word "home" was created with one of the new Stampin' Up punches that is absolutely amazing.  It's called the Petite Pennants Builder which enables you to create not only the outside of the pennant but the inside of it as well.  I love it.  And it seems to be all the rage these days in scrapbooking layouts and cards.

Stephanie loved the card and I really liked how it turned out.

Lean on Me - December 1st

Happy December 1st - how did we get so close to the end of the year?

I wanted to share with you a card I recently made for my friend who is going through a difficult time right now.  The stamp that I used is from the "Lean on Me" stamp set ($19.95 for clear mount) which I really love because it's the kind of stamp set that you can use to cheer a friend up or to just the person know that you're thinking of them.  Here's what it looks like:

I colored in the image with Stampin' Up Watercolor Pencils and then used a Scallop Trim Border punch on the Whisper White cardstock that I stamped the image on.  The buttons are retired.  The Ballet Blue (also retired) cardstock was put through the Big Shot with a embossing folder called "Stripes" which really gives it such as classic look.  It's a simple card yet it packs a punch.  This card hardly took any time at all - everything came together in minutes.  What do you think of it?