Another Amazing August

Our summer is spinning by!  Are we getting older or is time just flying by extra fast?  It seems we just sat down to make our July creations and here we are with another set of gorgeous cards!  The Daisies are back . . . whoo hoo, and we are stepping things up with another crazy fun fold card featuring the Happy Birthday Thinlits, and to top it off we have another take on our versatile Eastern Beauty Bundle.

Here we go!  Ready or not. 

Most papers, inks, and accessories used in our projects are from ©Stampin’ Up!

 

Eastern Beautiful!

The Eastern Beauty Stampset and the Eastern Medallions Thinlits are nothing short of remarkable.  Add some Eastern Palace Specialty Designer Paper and wait for the songs of praise on your beautiful work.  There are so many possibilities for this combo that the hardest part of doing this project was deciding which of the many combinations to use!  We saw no shortage of ideas on Pinterest to try to put together for a finished product.  We like what we came up with.

Beautiful Eastern Beauty Card

We made use of our brand new package of Very Vanilla Thick Card Stock for our base.  Next we notched out a "V" from the top and bottom of our Eastern Palace Specialty Designer Series Paper and stamped some little bits from the Eastern Beauty Stamp Set.  Thanks to our new Fresh Fig Ink and Card Stock our card is a dramatically beautiful beauty!  A little bling never hurts so we brought out our Clear Faceted Gems.  Just about perfect.  There is nothing more we can say except that we wonder what we ever did before these beautiful thinlits and our trusty Big Shot!

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!

One Daisy, One Wood Plank, One Beautiful Card

Ok.  We admit it.  We had to get as close to this amazing creation as we could so we liberally cased it right straight from http://wildwestpaperarts.com/international-gratitude-plank-style/.  (Go there for instructions and a peek at a possible inside treatment.) No need to make too many changes.  This is a standout.  The layering and embossing makes an interesting card and it is much easier than it looks!

 Wood Plank Daisy Card

 Deceptively simple for sure.  We stamped and punched a couple of daisies with our wonderful Daisy Delight and Daisy Punch Bundle.  A bit of sponging with Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, and Old Olive Inks does the trick.  Our message was stamped in Early Espresso and our Tombo Glue is holding our finished daisy in place.  A little bit of roughing up the edges with our Paper Snips added a nice rustic touch.  To tie things together and make this card amazing we used our new Pinewood Planks 3D Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder to emboss the whole thing, then sponged over with Soft Suede Ink.  We added a little shine with some Clear Wink of Stella on the daisy center.  Our woodwork of art is mounted on a piece of Early Espresso Card Stock.  Thanks Rae Harper Burnett in Reno!  Glad you took the International Gratitude Plank Challenge.  We love it.

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!

Happy Birthday

Another bundle to love!  The Happy Birthday Thinlit Die caught our eye and all of the sweet little stamps in the Happy Birthday Gorgeous Stamp Set sealed the deal!  Our fold is a combo of little Z-folds we found while hanging around Pinterest, and we grabbed some Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper to add our panels for color and design.  (We can't get enough of that combo either!)

Gorgeous Happy Birthday Fancy Fold Card

We took an 11" x 4 1/4" piece of Whisper White Card Stock and scored it at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2".  Then we grabbed an 8 1/2" x 3 1/2" piece of Tranquil Tide with scores at 4 1/4" and 6 3/8".  Putting them together was easy.  The Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper adorns our card.  New colors, Berry Burst and Tranquil Tide are a good team for this one.  The design is up to the artist!  We stamped and assembled and then topped things off with our Happy Birthday cutout which was backed with Multi-Purpose Adhesive Sheet for easy application.  A special little "celebrate" message is happily hanging around inside a frame punched with the Classic Label Punch and trimmed to fit!  

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!