Button Buddies Pig

This was a fun card I made recently for a class focused on the stamp set Button Buddies and designer paper, this month is the best time to get designer paper as for every 3 packs, you get one free!

Stamps: Button Buddies, On Your Birthday, Pennant Parade 

Ink: Regal Rose, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight

Card Stock: Big Top DSP, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Regal Rose

Accessories: Big Shit, Tasteful Trim die, Perfect Pennants, 2.5" circle punch, Petite Pennants Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Dimensionals, Crystal Effects, stamping sponge, Basic rhinestones, subtles designer buttons. 

Live, laugh & Love Scrapbook Pennants

I CASEd the layout from somewhere on the web (apologies I couldn't find the link back when I went to look for it), but I changed the papers, stamps, colours & modified the layout a bit too........I have to make a matching page for this as this was just a single scrapbook page I made a few weeks ago and just haven't made time to make it a mate yet (I have a personal aversion to single scrapbook pages unless they are the title or end pages in my album). I love the al a carte stamps and in particular the Triple Treat Flower - not the least for which there are three handy punches to make layering it effortless, but in the Summer mini catalogue there is also matching designer paper - how cool is that?? Like many projects, I took the card stock and ink colours directly from the designer paper that I chose to use, Bring on the Cake. The page is designed to have only a single photograph on it - on the Poppy Parade section, which is hopefully large enough to leave a nice coloured boarder around the photograph to frame it nicely.

The pennants are all popped up on Dimensionals and threaded onto Early Expresso Bakers Twine, also from the Summer mini catalogue. The centre of each little flower on the pennants is highlighted with a small Basic Pearl and the scallop strips along the bottom were all cut with the Tasteful Trim die and the Big Shot. 

Stamps: Triple Treat Flower, Field Flowers, On Your Birthday, Pennant Parade

Card Stock: Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Eat Cake DSP, So Saffron, Poppy Parade.

Ink: Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Basic Pearls, Big Shot, Five Petal Flower Punch, Petite Pennants Builder Punch, Fancy Flower Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, 1/2" circle punch, Antique Brads, Tasteful Trim die, Big Shot, SNAIL, Dimensionals, Early Expresso Bakers Twine, 1/16" handheld punch, 

Christmas Squares

Following on from yesterdays circles, today is Christmas squares! It wasn't made with designer paper though, but a randomly stamped pattern using co-ordinating inks - another card that can be made relatively quickly and in a production line or stages, which I find perfect for Christmas. The squares can either go on the diamond like below, or parallel to give a different look.

Stamps: Contempo Christmas, Delightful Decorations, Pennant Parade
Ink: Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler
Card Stock: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive
Accessories: 1 1/4" square punch, 1 3/8" square punch

Ornament Ice-cream

Here is another use for the ornament punch when you aren't making Christmas themed items with it! A swap from Alison Smith at Regionals.

Stamps: Short & Sweet, Pennant Parade, Heard from the Heart

Card Stock: Early Expresso, Blushing Bride, Very Vanilla & Just Add Cake DSP

Ink: Early Expresso & Blushing Bride

Accessories: Big Shot, Polka Dot textured impressions embossing folder, Very Vanilla grosgrain ribbon, Vintage Wallpaper textured impressions embossing folder, ornament punch, petite pennants builder punch, Dimensionals.

Pennant Parade Christmas Card

I love how versatile the Pennant Parade stamp set is - perfect for birthdays, baby arrival, thank you's, anniversary's, Christmas and more! Below is a Christmas one I made recently for a class using the new specialty paper Morning Mocha, it's so lovely - some sheets have lovely flocked texture on them and others a metallic sheen. 

Stamps: Merry & Type, Pennant Parade & Tiny Tags
Ink: Expresso, Soft Suede, Versamark & Crumb Cake
Card Stock: Morning Mocha, Very Vanilla, Soft Suede
Accessories: Heat gun, clear embossing powder, crumb cake seam binding, jewelry tag punch, Big Shot, Scallop circle #2, Petite Pennants builder punch, stamping sponge, linen thread, paper piercer, mat pack, itty bitty shapes punch pack, Dimensionals.

Pennants Parade - Two Different Looks, One Card

Each month Stampin' Up! demonstrators get sent a monthly newsletter, Impressions, and last month there was a Christmas card made using the new Pennant Parade stamp set and co-ordinating punch. It was a lovely card and I decided to base a similar card on it.

I then decided that this would be a lovely card for a make and take at my new catalogue launch, but not everyone likes making Christmas cards in August.......so I changed the elements of the card around to make a birthday card - same colours, same ribbon & paper, same stamps, but a very different look!

Stamps: Pennant Parade, Four Frames
Card Stock: Eat Cake DSP, So Saffron, Whisper White, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Poppy Parade, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron
Accessories: Chocolate Chip scallop dots ribbon, Dimensionals, Decorative Label Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Petite Pennants Builder Punch, Hemp Twine, 1/16" handheld punch, Stamping Sponges.