Wild Melon Delight

My color combination for this card

derived from this week's color combo challenge

at SCS. I had to tweak it a little since I didn't have 

the exact selection of colors, but I think it

was a pretty good substitute.

The actual challenge was wild wasabi, strawberry slush, 

and daffodil delight. Since I don't have anything in the 

strawberry slush, I used melon mambo.

I used one of my favorite SU stamp sets,

Heartfelt Thanks.  I made my own design

papers as well, also using images

from this stamp set.

Materials Used:

•   Images –Stampin’ Up Heartfelt Thanks

•   Sentiment –Stampin’ Up Big Bold Birthday

•   Cardstock – Stampin’ Up melon mambo and daffodil delight;  

Recollections white

•   Ink –Stampin’ Up melon mambo, daffodil delight, 

and wild wasabi

•   Accessories – Stampin’ Up ribbon, distressing tool, 

Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, stampin' sponges

Clean & Simple Birthday Balloons

I really love clean and simple challenges!

This week's CAS challenge at SCS

is to create a border using 2 or more

image and/or sentiment stamps.

There can never be enough "happy"  in a birthday!

I stamped the "happy blocks" from SU's So Very set

in melon mambo, rich razzleberry, and bermuda

bay for the border. "Birthday" is the bottom

portion of a stamp from SU's Birthday Greetings

set. The balloon is from SU's Birthday Whimsy

set, also stamped in melon mambo, rich 

razzleberry, and bermuda bay, with matching 

markers for the strings.

Clean & Simple one-layer card,

but I think it has a lot of personality.

Materials Used:

•   Images –Stampin’ Up Birthday Whimsy

•   Sentiment –Stampin’ Up So Very and Birthday Greetings

•   Cardstock –Recollections white

•   Ink –Stampin’ Up melon mambo, rich razzleberry, and Bermuda bay

•   Accessories – Stampin’ Up markers

Fab Friday Sketch Birthday

This is my first creation inspired

by the Fab Fri challenge.

I don't have any doilies or doily dies,

so I had to improvise.

I really like the feel of this card!

Materials Used:

•   Stamps –Stampin’ Up Heard From the Heart and Vintage Labels sets 

and Linen background stamp

•   Cardstock – Stampin’ Up cool caribbean,  groovy guava, 

and pear pizzaz

•   Designer Paper – Recollections DP

•   Ink –Stampin’ Up groovy guava; versamark

•   Accessories – Stampin’ Up scallop oval punch, paper piercing tool, 

clear embossing powder, fiber

Square Sketch Challenge

This card was inspired by last week's

sketch challenge at SplitcoastStampers:

SC475

I don't do square cards often, 

and when I do they are usually 3x3.

This card is 6x6.

I was actually needing a card about this

size so this challenge was perfect timing!

Materials Used:

•   Sentiment –Stampin’ Up Friendship Blooms

•   Cardstock – Stampin’ Up very vanilla

•   Designer Paper – the Paper Studio

•   Ink –Stampin’ Up early espresso

•   Accessories – Prima flowers, floral brads