Balloon Birthday

Balloon Adventures and Party Animal
This is a great combo for a birthday card.
The Balloon Adventures stamp set has a fabulous
coordinating thinlit set — Balloon Pop Up but
it also coordinates so well with the wonderful
Balloon Bouquet punch.
The colors in the Party Animal are so
bright and cheery — it just screams birthday to me.
Balloon AdventureCard Base — Pacific Point — 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ — score 4 1/4″
Party Animal designer paper — 4″ x 5 1/4″
Emerald Envy — 3″ x 4 1/2″
Whisper White — 2 3/4″ x 4 1/4″
Emerald Envy — cut out with Stitched Shapes Framelits
Whisper White — stamp greeting with Pacific Point
cut out with Stitched Shapes Framelits
Whisper White — stamp balloons with Tangerine Tango,
Pacific Point and Emerald Envy
punch out with Balloon Bouquet Punch
stamp balloon strings with Memento ink

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Avant Garden Swing Card

The Sale-a-Bration stamp set, Avant Garden,
has quickly become on of my favorite stamp sets.
The flower is quite sweet and simple.

I paired it with the Carried Away designer paper,
also a Sale-a-Bration choice for a soft
Smoky Slate and Flirty Flamingo look.

I love the layout of this card — thank you Susie Wood
for the inspiration.

Avant Garden Swing Card There is a special fold on this card.
Check out the opened card.
Avant Garden Swing Card Open
Isn’t the swing door cute.
I also love the lace detail across the center.
This stamp set is also a Sale-a-Bration item you could choose.

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Beautiful You

Have you played with the Beautiful You stamp set yet??
I love it!!
It is so versatile.
You can keep it simple with just a bit of color,
you can color with lots of detail or
like this card, you can go a bit crazy.

I used the Sending Love designer paper to
create paper doll clothes — I stamped the lady
first on the Whisper White square with Memento ink
and then I stamped it again on the designer paper,
cut out only the dress and adhered it over
the white stamped image.
It gives such dimension to the stamped image.
Then I colored her hat with Real Red marker
and added a pearl or rhinestone to her hat.
Oh, so elegant
Beautiful YouCard Base — Black — 4 1/4″ x 11″ — score at 5 1/2″
Real Red — 4″ x 5 1/4″ — emboss with Falling Petals embossing folder
Black — cut out with Layering Squares framelits
cut out scallop oval using Layering Ovals framelits
Real Red — cut out with Layering Squares framelits
Whisper White — cut out with Stitched Shapes framelits
stamp greeting and cut out with Layering Ovals
Sending Love designer paper — scrap

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