Spring Retreat - Builder Birdcage

Aren't these little birds just the cutest? The Builder Birdcage stamp set is super flexible and super cute! This first card I made for someone who let me constantly borrow her Cuttlebug machine since I was traveling. I did bring my own plates and luckily she was very sweet to let me borrow her machine - thanks Nancy!

Her daughter was clearing out her paper stash, so the envelope flap was covered in one of those papers I picked up for cheap and since I was hand delivering it to her, it was safe to cover just the back flap. The color combo I used was Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Flirty Flamingo and then I embossed the card front after stamping with the Tufted embossing folder.

~Enjoy!

I CASEd myself from the Day by Day challenge with the eggs all lined up. I lined up these cute birdies in Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss and Crumb Cake. The sentiment was stamped on Crumb Cake and cut with the Decorative Label punch.

I CASEd the background from Pinterest for this one and switched up the colors and then waited until I got home to add all the additional layers of the bird cage and the sprigs. Super cute, this one ended up going to my friend Louise for her birthday! I used Blackberry Bliss, Melon Mambo and Powder Pink. The birdcage was an old die I have had for years and the sprigs are from Flourish Thinlits and Bouquet Bunch Thinlits.

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Stampin' Up! products used:

• Builder Birdcage stamp set
• Flourish Thinlits
• Bouquet Bunch Thinlits
• Decorative Label punch
• Tufted embossing folder
• Old Olive
• Daffodil Delight
• Flirty Flamingo
• Memento Black
• Blackberry Bliss
• Crumb Cake
• Melon Mambo
• Powder Pink

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Spring Retreat #1 - Day by Day Paper Pumpkin

On my most recent retreat, I was traveling so I did not have a great deal of stamping supplies with me, luckily my friend Shannon offered me a room & a raid on my last night before the retreat so I gladly took her up on her offer! I spent about an hour going through her stamps, adding notes to them so I could place them back where I found them after the retreat & picking out anything that I did not have in my stash at home.

There had been several cute cards made with the December 2018 Paper Pumpkin stamp set, which was just a bunch of odd shapes for a calendar set, which I did not get. I was thrilled that she had it & it was one of the first things I grabbed.

Most of these ideas are CASEd from Pinterest with a color change, but I am really happy with all the cute cards I was able to make with teh Day by Day Paper Pumpkin set! Here is the whole collection. The first card was part of Digital Retreat March #1.

~Enjoy!

The last card was made with the Melon Mambo and Memento Black I made the pink and black one first and really thought it was cute, but my table mate was not feeling it. I replicated it on the second card with Cajun Craze and Night of Navy, trying to get a more masculine version and I love Cajun Craze! These are CASEd from North Shore Stamper.

Stampin' Pretty always has the best card ideas and this one is not an exception. This pattern has been around for years, I remember making a card at my friends house in the early 90s like this one! It is so easy to just stamp aways at a piece of paper and them just cut it into strips!

Since I was traveling and did not have a great assortment of stamps & I had decided this retreat would be all about Birthdays, I found this cute birthday stamp at Tuesday Morning from Firefly and used it on almost every card I made this weeked. It was so cute & everyone kept asking what set it was from!

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Stampin' Up! products used:

• Day by Day Paper Pumpkin December 2018
• Night of Navy
• Melon Mambo
• Cajun Craze
• Memento Black
• Blueberry Bushel
• Balmy Blue

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Paper Pumpkin Alternatives January 2019

Her are some Paper Pumpkin alternatives for the 2019 January Paper Pumpkin
~Enjoy

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More standard out of the box designs. The lips were made from the ends of the pillow boxes cut off.

Now a little more outside of the box.

I started off thinking these would be for my friend Shannon on Valentines day, but I think I will keep these around for when I need some pet cards - I never seem to have them when I need them. Now - for the faint of heart when it comes to cutting stamps - you may want to stop reading...you've been warned!

I have a million "For You, my friend stamps" & honestly - I do not use the ones I have, so I thought I could alter this stamp to say Fur you, my friend, so I got out my micro-scissors and my magnifying glass & very gently cut the top off of the O in the word For. This lopsided style of font allowed for the edit & I think it is really cute. Only after I hacked up my stamp - I found that they had a similar one in the Happy Tails set - oh well!

These cards turned out very pretty but maybe it is the tufted background - all I see is a baby card.

I just love how this card came out, I went back to the paper pumpkin Blissful Bouquet Paper Pumpkin set from a million years ago (but i just received this past weekend) and grabbed the little DSP for the leaves. The envelopes were made with a similar set of stamps from the Incredible Like You set - I just added a little pen detailing to match the DSP

Now this card is a little funky and instead of love I thought it might be cute as an engagement card. Not until I got done & I was thinking of who could I give this too - it is pretty far out there - I thought of my 2 co-workers - who are pretty out there & just got engaged - PERFECT!!

And what the heck - just for fun - a bunny! I still have to decide what to do with him though...

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Color Challenge Week #70

This week's inspiration photo:

The Stampin' Up! colors identified were:

• Melon Mambo
• Garden Green
• Daffodil Delight

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Here is my submission:

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Here are the group results as well:

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Color Challenge Week #45

This week's inspiration photo:

The Stampin' Up! colors identified were:

• Tempting Turquoise
• Daffodil Delight
• Melon Mambo
• Whisper White

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Here is my submission:

This card was actually created by accident. I was using a scrap piece of paper to stamp off on, while making another card. And the stamped off image piece of paper looked like this background - so I recreated it on the card front and added the cross, celebrate die and ribbon and presto - an Easter card!

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Here are the group results as well:

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