CLEAN AND SIMPLE FALL LEAVES BIRTHDAY CARD

HEY BLOGGIES,

I have a clean and simple birthday card for you today.  It is done in fall tans and browns with some maple leaves.

En Francais background stamp stamped over a stencil of the apothecary label framelits.  Sponged around the edges with crumb cake, burnt brown sugar.

I stamped the Magnificent Maple single stamp in early espresso over the print.  I then stamped the Banner Label stamp set, Happy Birthday, in early espresso and popped it up with dimensionals.

I love the softness and the colors of this card.  Hope you enjoyed it too.  The crisp edges of the stencil and the details of the leaves work so well together.

Thanks for stopping by.

I have entered this card at:

Sketch Frenzy Friday
SUO challenges blog
Papercraft Star Challenge

FALL FLOWERS AND SHADES OF BLUE

HEY BLOGGIES,

Welcome back to my little part of the world.  Today I have two cards for you.  They are going to be part of a set of cards I am giving as a gift to a friend.

First up is the friend or generic type card:

Crumb cake and blue - I love that combination.  I find it is my "go to" when I need a quick card and don't have time to mull over what colors I will use.  I think this is fall flowers because the flower is made with the packing material they sometimes use in boxes I receive from UPS, etc. I HOARD this stuff from my boxes I receive and now I am finally trying to use it!!

Sponging the layers and a little bit of the flower adds dimension and more color.  I used a retired corduroy button in the middle of my punched flower.

I created a fun element underneath the 1/8" taffeta ribbon - I used the scallop edge punch and punched it on both sides.  It created a rick-rack effect and I am really liking it!!
This card is entered at:

MOJO MONDAY CHALLENGE 310
USE IT TUESDAY CHALLENGE
TRY IT ON TUESDAY - MAKE YOUR OWN FLOWERS


NEXT CARD BELOW IS ENTERED INTO:

CRAFT DASH 10 MINUTE CARD
SUO CHALLENGE - TECHNIQUE
PAPERCRAFT STAR

My NEXT card uses the same colors and similar design since they are part of a gift set.  This card is a thank you card and would be perfect for the new teacher.  The technique I am focusing on is using punches and dies.  I used 2 punches and a die.

 I did a similar design with this card, but I put the flower at the bottom left, made it a bigger flower and put just a single punched scallop edge under the dsp.

 This flower is cut from the same package stuffing but with a big shot die.  It took me 9 minutes 27 seconds to make this card.  I made it under 10 minutes!!

Here are the two cards together.  I am making two more and then a fun package to gift them in for my friend.  Thanks for stopping by my blog.

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