Get Messy with Birthday Sundaes!

Good morning!

This week's Birthday Sundaes challenge is to "Get Messy"! Create a birthday card using lots of inking, paints, mists. You get the idea. Make a mess and of course, have fun doing it! Don't forget to include a birthday sentiment/wording on your card front.

Our sponsor for this week is Couture Stamping by Candice Fields, an independent CTMH consultant and former Birthday Sundaes DT Member! Candice is giving away the CTMH Fashionista stamp set, shown below. Candice is also offering Birthday Sundaes fans a 10% discount during this challenge. You can find her store HERE and her blog HERE. To receive the discount, please email your order directly to Candice at stampinpearls at gmail . com (remove the spaces).

Here is my creation~

To make my card, first I punched 3 circles and added them to my card with repositionable adhesive. I stamped the sentiment and then ran the card base through my Cuttlebug with the Seeing Spots folder.   I then sprayed my card with 3 different Glimmer Mists - Lemongrass, SWAK, and Dazzling Diamonds. I did a few layers of each (and ended up with a warped card lol - it's safe to say I lack patience in waiting for things to dry!).  I then removed the circles so that I'd have the white spots to add my buttons. Just a tip when using the adhesive, do not use a lot. I used a bit too much and my paper tore when I took the circles off. 

I had tons of fun making this card and hope you will join us this week! The Design Team knocked this challenge out of the park - once again! 

Wedding Wishes

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Happy Tuesday....back to work today after over a week off. 

Quick post for today sharing a card I made for my co-worker's wedding which was the last Sunday of June.

The wedding colors included purple and green so I wanted my card to reflect that.  I used Papertrey Ink Plum Pudding cardstock for the base and ran it through the D'Vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder and sprayed the heck out of it with Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I am loving the pretty mists now!  The banner underneath the sentiment is from the scrap bin and the Wedding Wishes and border were stamped on Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock.  The stamps are from the Verve Love Story set.  Pearls are from my stash.

I used Sweet Sunday Sketch 122 for the card layout. 

TFL! 

Tools of the Trade with Shopping Our Stash!

Good morning!

I'm here to share another Guest Designer post for the Shopping Our Stash Challenge!  

For Challenge #5, let's use some of those tools we *had* to have but don't use often-could be your eyelet setter, circle cutter, decorative scissors, fastenator, tiny attacher, cropodile or maybe you have an embossing folder that has not yet been used, nestabilities that haven't been opened, or even your paper piercer can be called into use on your project! Use a tool that is rather neglected!

Well this proved to be a bit of a challenge for me LOL! So many tools, so little time...

I settled on using a stencil that has been in the package unused, a nestabilities set that hasn't seen much love and my poor Cropadile that has been collecting dust.

To create this card, I put my card base in a box and laid my Crafters Workshop Flurries template over it and sprayed the middle with Spring Violet Glimmer Mist and then sprayed the other two sections with Frost Glimmer Mist.  I removed the template and let the card dry, then sprayed the entire card with Glacier Glimmer Mist.  This was my first experience with Glimmer Mist and the first attempt didn't go well.  I used the Georgia Pacific cardstock and sprayed way too closely.  This is my second attempt with Papertrey Ink cardstock and sprayed a bit further away with a much better result. {click on the picture to see the shimmer even better}

I cut the sentiment panel with my Small Deckled Mega Rectangles and  then I stamped a sentiment from the Hero Arts Holiday Sayings set and inked the edges with Memento Paris Dusk.  I added the snowman eyelet using my Cropadile...the first attempt with that didn't go well either since I lost the directions and the poor snowman got stuck LOL.  I managed to save him.

What tools have you neglected lately?  Why not join us at Shopping Our Stash and show them off!

I am also linking this to Crafts & Me Challenge #39 - Bling it On.

TFL!!