PINTEREST PICS

I'm on vacation and had a chance to do some Pinterest pinning! Here are some of my favorites:

 

and here's a card with a nice tutorial HERE to make a shadowbox card:

TWEET HEARTS

The Card Chicks is the name of my paper crafting group and this is one of the cards we'll be making together at our next meeting. I saw a variation of this card on Pinterest and modified it for Valentine's Day giving. It uses two sizes of heart punches for the bird bodies and wings, the SU Adorning Borders embossing folder for the raised hearts, Labels 4 Nesties, the SU Ticket Punch for the corners, black adhesive gems for the eyes, and the sentiment is from the SU Well Scripted stamp set.

PINTEREST CASED CARD:

MADISON AVENUE VARIATION

I had a chance today to play some more with my new SU stamps and modified the card I posted yesterday.  Using a mini scallop EK punch, I punched out the yellow flowers, minimized the ribbon and I like this one much better!

PREVIOUS VERSION:

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FOR MY CARD CHICKS

Inside View:

I saw a version of this card on Brenda Keenan's site and had to give it a try! She also included a VERY helpful video tutorial HERE to show how to perfectly align those leaves on the card front!

SU Stamp Sets:

Flowers = Madison Avenue

There's Only One You = Vintage Verses

Happy birthday = A Word for You

Celebrate one cupcake = Sweet Little Sentiments

Cupcake Punch: EK Success

Cherries on the cupcakes: SU Cupcake Punch

Ribbon: SU Summer Starfruit Satin Stitched

Ink: Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry & Daffodil Delight

Note: Argggg! I had to add the banner with the saying for the inside because I stamped the saying the first time upside down and the banner was a quick fix!

Fifth Avenue Floral

I've had this floral Stampin' Up set for a long time and

haven't used it in a long while.

Here's the simple card I came up with:

INSIDE

SU STAMPS 

Florals:

Fifth Avenue Floral

Front Sentiment: 

A Word for You

Inside Sentiments: 

Simple Sayings

Sweet Little Sentiments

SU INK:

Pretty in Pink

Melon Mambo

Valentine for a Card Maker

INSIDE THE CARD IT READS:

This is for the Ways to Use It WT408 Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com to show off a new toy that we got for Christmas and mine was the Stampin' Up Fashionable Hearts Embosslits. It embosses and cuts 5 different shaped and embossed hearts all at once! I love using it with metallic paper --- it gives such professional results!

I used translate.google.com to make a background that says in French: To my card maker friend * You are so talented and creative * I'm so lucky to have a friend like you! Then I pasted it over and over again using a script font and WingDings2 "f" key to separate each line. 

TIE THE PERFECT BOW

HAPPY 2013 and here's a diagram that shows the bow technique described in my YouTube video HERE. Once you've practiced the technique, you can use a smaller length of ribbon to make a bow (rather than the 12" mentioned in the video)...and if I'm making a lot of bows, I measure out the length needed to make one bow, add a little extra length, then use that piece to measure and cut the ribbon for the rest of the bows so I can set up my bow-making factory!