Flower Shop Birthday Card

As you know, I have been working on making some birthday cards.  The next card I made was using one of my favorite stamp sets - SU Flower Shop.  I had not used this one individual stamp and saw this card and decided to CASE it with a few minor changes.

Recipe :

Stamps - Flower Shop, Cute & Curly
Ink - Soft Sky, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz
Paper - Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Whisper White
Embellishments - Ribbon, Pearls
Accessories - Cute & Curly punch, Dimensionals

I made my base card in Daffodil Delight CS.  Using the different colors, I stamped on the Whisper White layer.  I colored my ribbon and adhered it on the layer and popped up my greeting with dimensionals.  This is an old stamp set with matching punch that I have used so many times.  One of the greetings just says "Thank You" in the corner and when punched out it makes a great tag!  I used some pearls for the center of some of the flowers.

I decided to decorate the inside of the card with some some of the stamped flowers.  I used my go to birthday stamp that I found at Michael's years ago in the $1 bin.  I also stamped the envelopes.

I really liked how the cards turned out.  Something a little different than I usually make.  Its been pretty hot here lately with lots of storms.  We even had a small tornado a few towns over which is rare for us.  We have a pretty busy weekend planned.  My daughter turns 50 and we are celebrating.  Boy - where did that time go!  Hope you have a wonderful whatever your plans are.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nancy, Rachel & Sarah

Flower Shop Card

Over the weekend, I saw this video from Dawn's Stamping Studio and thought it was so cute and wanted to try it.  I thought I would have trouble cutting it out - as cutting is not a strength of mine - but it was the stamping I had trouble with.  Dawn made it look so easy but it took a few tries to get it right!

Recipe:

Stamps - Flower Shop, Petite Petals - SU
Ink - Melon Mambo - SU
Paper - Whisper White, Crumb Cake - SU
Accessories - Petite Petals Punch
Embellishments - Pearls - Michaels

I won't go into all the details as she does such a good job on her videos.  As I mentioned, I did have trouble with the stamping and I think it was because my ink pad was not wet enough so I could stamp a few times with it.  Fortunately, I had a re-inker for my Melon Mambo and I feel it definitely helped.  I didn't stamp any sentiment on my cards, as I think this card would be perfect for a lot of occasions and will stamp it when I go to use them.  I'm trying to build up my stash again, and I think this card was great for that - and it used one of my favorite stamps - pansies!!!

Rachel and Sarah spent time this weekend with Jennifer and had so much fun with her!  Snow is expected this week, so maybe we'll have more stamping time!

Thanks for stopping bye,
Nancy, Rachel & Sarah