Stampin' Up Apron of Love treat holder

Today's project is inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest made by Cindy Bouchard.  I took her card idea and turned it into this treat holder.  The Stampin' Up logo stamp has been retired and was only available to demonstrators in the Best Decision Ever business stamp set.  I embossed it with Versamark ink 102283 and white embossing powder 109132.  Other stamp sets used are the Apron of Love bundle 145986 which includes Apron of Love photopolymer stamp set 145835 and the Apron Builder Framelits 145661.  When purchased in a bundle, you save 10%.  The paint brushes, exacto knife and pencil are from a red rubber stamp set called Crafting Forever 143958.  I fussy cut them out. 

The images from the Crafting Forever stamp set were colored with a mixture of Stampin' blends and Stampin' Write markers.  The little scissors were cut twice with the Apron Builder framelits. Once with basic black cardstock 121045 and once with silver foil sheets 132178.  I then cut the top of the black scissors off and mounted to the silver foil scissors.  I love how they turned out.  These little treat holders will hold four Hershey's miniture bars.  I made these as pillow gifts for my friends at our April 2018 beach crop.  They absolutely loved them. 

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Bird Banter meets Petal Passion birthday

I made this birthday card for a co-worker.  It features the Petal Passion Designer Series Paper 145589 along with the Bird Banter stamp set 145852.  I cut a whisper white cardstock layer and a Petal Passion DSP layer at 5 1/4 x 4.  I then used the layering circle framelits to cut a circle in both layers at the same time.  I then used the white cardstock layer over the top of another whisper white layer to sponge soft sky ink into the circle.  I stamped the leaf branch onto the soft sky circle and then adhered my DSP layer over the whisper white layer.  I then cut a scalloped circle slightly bigger from a layer of lemon lime twist cardstock and then cut a circle one size down into the center to make the scalloped circle outline and adhered it on top of the DSP.

I stamped the cockatiel bird from the Bird Banter stamp set onto shimmery white cardstock 101910.  I then colored my bird with an aqua painter using lemon lime twist 144086 and bermuda bay 131171 inks.  The finishing touch for this card is a strip of 1/4" organza ribbon 145590 with a strip of the lemon lime twist ombre ribbon 144234.  I stamped the sentiment on whisper white using bermuda bay ink and cut it out with a framelit from the Petals and More framelits 145655.  This is popped up on some mini stampin dimensionals 144108.  My card base is a standard A2 whisper white card base.

Thank you for taking time from your busy day to stop by my blog.  I hope you've been inspired to create something beautiful today.  If you would like to purchase any of these items, please click on the shopping cart to the right.  I'd love to earn your business.  Please leave me a comment if you liked my card today. 

March 2018 Paper Pumpkin alternative

This card uses the March 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit and is paired with the Beautiful Bouquet bundle.  It also features the Gold Faceted Gems 144141 in the center of the So Saffron flower and a Pearl Basic jewel 144141 in the center of the small Fresh Fig flower from the Beautiful Bouquet bundle 145297.  

The sentiment on this card is also from the Beautiful Bouquet bundle.  The card base has been embossed with the basket weave dynamic emobossing folder.  This will be available for purchase in the 2018-2019 annual catalog.  I love how this card turned out.  I hope it inspires you to try something a little different from the cards designed in the kit.  

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Celebrate Spring Foil card

I was inspired by many cards I saw on Pinterest for this card.  It features the beautiful Spring Foil cardstock and the Celebrate thinlets.  The Celebrate You thinlets will be available in the 2018-2019 annual catalog.  They were a free item during the 2018 Sale-A-Bration season, along with the Spring Foil cardstock. 

I used the Stampin' Blends to color the Spring Foil cardstock and the work celebrate.  Stampin' Blends are so amazing!  Colors used were the light and dark old olive 144597, light and dark Calypson Coral 144045, and light and dark Daffodil Delight 144603.  The strips of gold are retired washi tape but you can achieve the same look with a strip of gold foil sheets 132622.  My card base is a standard A2 size in Calypso Coral. 

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