Good Neighbors

The Stampin' Up! Good Neighbors stamp set have these adorable little houses and trees.  I've used two different houses and three different trees on these cards.  The 2 step stamping technique was used to ensure the roof sits atop the house nicely.
The first card uses Pretty in Pink and Not Quite Navy card stock and the trees are stamped in Old Olive.  I just had to use the Pinking Hearts Border punch, to marry with the love heart on the door. 
The second card uses Baja Breeze and Basic Gray card stock and the trees are stamped in Cajan Craze.  The scallop border punch allows the card to be non gender specific.   
The 'best wishes' greeting is from the Stampin' Up! Short & Sweet stamp set and fits perfectly in the word punch.

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Sue.

Bird'day Wishes

One of my favourite colour combinations is Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip & Baja Breeze.   Repetition of a stamped image like this bird from the Stampin' Up! Best Wishes and More stamp set is effective and easy to create.  The 'birthday wishes' greeting is from the Stampin' Up! So Happy for You stamp set.  The flowers are made out of felt and have been attached to the punched circle with a silver brad.  
Hint:  Before attaching the coloured card stock to the card, tape them together from the back and then scallop punch the bottom starting from the centre.  

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Sue.

Happy Birthday Human

This Happy Birthday, Human Bot is really fun to stamp with.  The Birthday Bot and Bolts and Screws are from the Stampin' Up! Lots of Bots stamp set.  I've colored in parts of the Birthday Bot to match the colored card stock & ribbon of Melon Mambo, Only Orange and Real Red on Basic Gray.  I like the look of layers on a card using the same color card stock, like the circles on top of the strip of real red in the last card below.  This would work equally well with a small star punch as well.   

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Sue.

Valentine's 'love you much' bot

This cute little Robot is from the Stampin' Up! Lots of Bot stamp set.  These Cards have been stamped in Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Elegant Eggplant & Wild Wasabi in matching card stock.  The love you much greeting is from the Stampin' Up! Well Scripted stamp set.  
I gave my partner the Cherry Cobbler love you much card for Valentine's Day last week.  I made a little matching Rectangle Box and filled it with Lindt chocolates.  

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Sue.

Transportation

It appears that I have accumulated quite a stash of patterned papers over the years.  In an attempt to use the papers I once intended to, I have been creating cards like these.  It is so surprising how many cards you can get out of a 12x12" sheet of patterned paper.  For the Transportation designs, I have used Stampin' Up! card stock in Marina Mist, Real Red & Basic Gray, which are great colours for boys.  

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Sue.

Aviary in pink and blue

OMGoodness, this Stampin' Up! Aviary Stamp Set is just too gorgeous.   The colours chosen for these cards are Early Espresso with Marina Mist and Pretty in Pink.   I've used an embossing folder to give the background card stock some texture and used matching card stock Designer Series Paper, so the stamped owl & bird cage remains the focal point. This card has 9 layers and would have to be most I've used on a card thus far.  The time taken to make these cards is well worth it when the results look as stunning as this.


There are 4 different bird cages in the Aviary stamp set and I've used the tallest one here.  Accompanying the owl are 3 different birds, which I'll be using in my card designs in the near future.

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Sue.

Medallion in Neutrals

I simply adore the Stampin' Up! Medallion stamp on cards with neutral tones like chocolate, espresso, vanilla, crumb cake and classic white.  My sister in law has suggested that a brayer is the way to go to get a better stamped image.  I've just been pressing down really hard for quite a number of seconds.  Sounds like I need to get myself a brayer and give this a try  :-)  

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Sue.

Girl Rock

The stamp used in the Girl Rock card is from the Stampin' Up! Grunge Rock stamp set. This is the first time I've used this stamp set and it's sure to become one of my favourites for girl teenager cards.  In this set of cards, I've used Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Real Red & Tempting Turquoise card stock.  I've included a couple of score lines above the punched scallop border and the Happy Birthday greeting is from the Well Scripted stamp set.


For quite some time now, I've never really fancied the Scallop Square Punch because there's not much scallop visible behind the 1 1/4" Square Punch.  I think I was comparing this to the Scallop Circle Punch and the 1 1/4" Circle Punch where a few mil is visible.  But, having used the Scallop Square Punch on this Project, I now like this look and will be using this Punch a lot more.         

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Sue.

Masculine Fox

I use the Fox from the Stampin' Up! Fox and Friends Stamp Set often for Male Cards.  The first card is the one I gave my Father & Father-in-law last year for Father's Day.  And the second card for one of my male family members Birthday.  I find that I tend to choose striped patterned paper for the male cards in blue, white, brown tones.  How very masculine!    

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Sue.