Celebrate and making a subtle background with stamps

Hello!  Diana here with a card that can be used for any celebratory occasion but feels like spring to me!  It's in the 70s today and it's FEBRUARY!  I like it.

But on to the card itself:

It's hard to see in some of the photos because the background is so subtle but that was what I wanted so that the beautiful Celebrate die cut would really pop.  I used the "Celebrate" clear stamp from the Happy Birthday collection to make my background.  I stamped it repeatedly on a white card stock and clear embossed.  Though the picture looks almost ivory there, it was the best picture that captured the clear embossing even though everything was done with Neenah white card stock.

The Celebrate and butterfly die cut were sponged with Distress oxide inks and then adhered to the front of the card.  I added a bit of adhesive rhinestone to my butterfly and voila, all done!

For a little big of extra sparkle, I went over all the die cuts with a clear glitter Wink of Stella pen.  It's so pretty and delicate in real life!

I hope you like it and it inspires to you to look through your stamps to see what would make a great background!

Happy Birthday collection (clear stamps) available from Elizabeth Craft Designs and Quietfire Design

Celebrate metal die available from Elizabeth Craft Designs and Quietfire Design

Butterfly Flourish metal die  available from Elizabeth Craft Designs and Quietfire Design

One of my favorite stamps

Hi Everyone it's Teresa here today on this wonderful and jolly day after Christmas
or Boxing Day if you live in England.  It's almost the end of the year and a lot
 of people i know like to post about their favorite things of the year so today my post
is about one of my favorite  stamp sets.  It's called Happy Family Days and the set comes
 with a frame and 4 different sentiments to put into it.  So you know that you can get
alot of use from this one.  It's really beautiful.

I used the frame stamp and used a matching aqua ink to stamp it 

with and then stamped the Happy Birthday stamp in the center with

black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then i hand 

cut out the design and glued it to layers of ivory and aqua papers using

the Spellbinders Labels One die and the coordinating Scalloped

Labels one that fits perfect with the other.  For the paper i used

bright fun colors of aquas, ivory and oranges and finished it

with a simple bow and matching roses that i had in my stash.

Thank you so much for stopping over and hope

you have a really nice day!!

Make a Washi Tape Pennant Birthday Card

Hey there!  It's Suzanne today with a super simple birthday card to share!
 

I've been dying to play with this washi tape and since the name of the new stamp set is Happy Birthday Plain and Simple, I thought this was such a simple design that it fit the bill.  Once I found my stash of little kilt pins, this card took me about 5 minutes.  I'm not use to mounted stamps and it's different than using them on Tack n Peel, so I needed to practice a few times.  The mounted stamps also sit higher when I use the stamp positioner, so that took a bit of practice, too.

Supplies:
Quietfire "Happy Birthday Plain & Simple"
Washi Tape
Tim Holtz Wire Pins
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb
Tsukineko VersaMagic Turquoise Gem
Mini Glue Dot

Instructions:

1. Cut a piece of white cardstock to 10" x 5" and fold in half to create a 5" x 7" card.
2. Open the pin. Cut a 5" piece of washi tape and fold it around the open pin shaft adhering the tape to itself.  Trim the tape ends into a V as shown. Close the pin.
3. Stamp "Happy Birthday".  You can use whatever ink colour compliments your washi tape. Use a single Glue Dot to adhere the pennant and pin to the card as shown.

Quick and cute!  Thanks for stopping by!
Suzanne