A Special Birthday Flower Card

     A few months ago, I made this card:

     I attended my upline's card club and this was one of the cards everyone made.  I loved it so much that I immediately bought the stamp set (With All My Heart), from the Occasions Mini Catalog.  I'm hoping it is in the new catalog coming out on July 1st.  I LOVE this stamp set.  This card was super simple and quick to make.  I also used the Extra Large Fancy Flower punch (still available and will be available in the new catalog) to punch out the flower.

     Did you find the fun technique I used on it?  Faux Suede  I used it on the stem of the flower.  Go to THIS post to see how to do the Faux Suede technique.

     I used this card as my inspiration for this next card:

Thanks Sally for designing the previous card which gave me the inspiration for this birthday card!

     I used the same Faux Suede technique on the stem of this flower.  I just love the look, don't you?  Now for this flower, I used the Extra Large Fancy Flower punch and punched out 5 flowers.  Check out THIS post to see how I made the flower.  I bought some cheap body spray in a flower scent, and before I attached the flower to my card, I sprayed it with the body spray.  This gave the flower a very light and lovely scent.  Again, another quick and simple card to make.  Due to the 3-D flower, this card really can't be mailed.  But then, when you make a card like this, don't you like to see the face of the person you are giving it to when they open the card?  I do.  It's worth all the time I put into making the card.

     My open house is this Saturday from 9am to 12pm.  I hope you are able to stop by.  I will be selling older retried stamps, have a few door prizes, special surprises for those that come, and those that place orders on Saturday, free make-n-takes with retiring items and sneak peek items.  Let me know if you are planning on coming.  This way I have enough projects and surprises for everyone.

Happy Thursday!

Faux Suede Flower

     OH MY!  I got so wrapped up in my graduation (which is in two weeks), and my job (which has been very stressful lately), that I completely forgot to post this last flower from my April Flowers.

Flower Tutorial Information:  The flower was not my idea.  I CASEd the idea from Juli Buhler.  You can find her video tutorial at her BLOG.  Check it out.  It's so easy, and fun to make! 

FREE TUTORIAL:

     Here is how I made my flower:

1.  Take a piece of card stock and run it through the crimper, about 10 times, in every direction.  This breaks down the fibers in the paper, allowing the layers to peel apart.

2.  Crumble up the paper, nice and tight.  Then open it up.

3.  Peel the card stock apart into 2 pieces.

4.  Punch as desired.

     It's that simple!

For my flower, I punched three 5 Petal Flower punches.  I used the paper piercer and pierced the centers and used a rhinestone brad.  I covered one side of a clothes pin with Designer Series Paper (the hostess Level 1 set).  I used a glue dot to attach the flower to the clothes pin.

RECIPE:

CARD STOCK:  Rose Red, Pretty In Pink DSP (hostess Level 1 set)

INK: Pretty In Pink

TOOLS: 5-Petal Flower Punch, Crimper, Rhinestone Brad, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Tombo Glue, Glue Dots, clothes pin (non-Stampin' UP!)

Happy Friday!

Butterfly Challenge

     SU! Late Night Stampers Challenge #56--Butterflies.  How could I pass up this challenge?  Well, I couldn't!  I really LOVE butterflies and after a few days thought, I knew exactly what I wanted to make to enter this challenge:

NOTE:  My box has Hershey's Kisses ONLY because I don't currently have any Hershey's Nuggets.  I plan to get Nuggets, and wrap them in SU! paper (to match) and put them in the box.

RECIPE:

CARD STOCK: Pretty In Pink, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, & Rose Red

INK:  Pretty In Pink, Regal Rose, & Rose Red

SIZZIX DIES: SU! Match Box, SU! Beautiful Wings Embosslit

PUNCH:  5 Petal

TOOLS:  Clear Rhinestone Brad, Glue Dots, SNAIL Adhesive, Stampin' Sponges, Crimper, Bone Folder

     Flower Tutorial Information:  The flower was not my idea.  I CASEd the idea from Juli Buhler.  You can find her tutorial at her BLOG.  Check it out.  It's so easy, and fun to make!

     I hope my project makes you think of spring.  Even though Phil saw his shadow today, and proclaimed 6 more weeks of winter, someone will need to tell that to the robins I saw today.  It's been in the teens for about 1 1/2 weeks now, and it's snowing as I type this, but the robins have decided to migrate to PA in early February.  Maybe they know something that Phil doesn't know?

Happy Tuesday!