Happy Birthday with a Cherry On Top

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 568 - Anything Plaid. My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 577. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 567 - a Strawberry Macaroon Espresso please. The cupcake is for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 361 - Sweet Treats.
We have 3 granddaughters with birthdays in February so one of them get's this sweet treat to start with. I drew extra lines on the cupcake bottom and colored with copics. I stamped, colored, then cut out the icing and cherry and popped them up on dimensionals. There are 3 layers of dimensions on this sweet treat. I found some plaid dp and decided to use it as well. I used some dark brown ribbon for the espresso color part.
Hope you like it and I hope my baby does too.

I stamped the cherries randomly and then the sentiment on the front, inside, and envelope all in strawberry slush.
RECIPE:
Stamps: IA- Cupcake Birdie 
Paper: white, Mint Macaroon, Plaid dp? 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Strawberry Slush 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, copics 
Techniques: 3D, copic coloring, fussy cutting

Curvy Verses Valentine Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 567 - Strawberry Macaroon Espressos with dessert to make a Valentine card. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 432.
I found my DCWV stash of dp and went with it. I did not even try the TLC again today :(

All sentiments are stamped in strawberry slush. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Year Cheer III, Curvy Verses Paper: vanilla, strawberry slush, mint macaroon, DCWV Garden Party dp Ink: strawberry slush Accessories: dimensionals, Memory box LOVE die

Sweet Talkin' Valentine Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 570 - Dry Embossing with Stencils, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 361 - Sweet Treats, and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 432. I am backing up a couple of weeks and using COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's black and white and red all over? for my color combo.
I tried embossing with my cuttlebug and almost broke a plate and ruined my embossing folder that had 4 different patterns. I was able to save my heart section so I went to my light box. If a hidden camera was around it would be a riot. I have not used my night light in such a long time. It took me forever to remember what and how to dry emboss then I could not remember where my stylet tool was.

Awe finally it all came together. It was a site only my friends at SCS could appreciate. LOL. Now off to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sweet Talk, All Year Cheer III 
Paper: white, real red, black 
Ink: Real Red 
Accessories: heart stencil 
Techniques: dry embossing with stencils

Valentine Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 576. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 566 - Doing the Mambo wearing Pink eating Pumpkin Pie. I found some dp in my age old stash that worked for the CC. WOW. I love it when that happens. I seamed the pretty in pink and dp with a thin ribbon. I cut and embossed the scallop and smooth edge hearts, layered them, and popped them up on dimensionals. I stamped the sentiment in melon mambo on the front and envelope.

The sentiment from Blessings from heaven was stamped on the inside in melon mambo. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Blessings from Heaven, All Year Cheer III 
Paper: white, pretty in pink, melon mambo, ?dp 
Ink: Melon Mambo 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, Nestability Hearts 
Techniques: 3D, layered

Love and Sympathy Simply Soft

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 566 - Doing the mambo wearing Pink and eating Pumpkin Pie. Hold on to your hats ladies as this is a single challenge for me today. GASP!!
I stamped the flower image in momento tuxedo black then colored with copics and added some stickles because. For my white front panel I stamped the sentiment on the front in melon mambo then adhered to the white card base after adding the pink ribbon.

The inside was stamped with the flower 2nd generation stamping in pretty in pink then the sentiment in pumpkin pie both from the SU set Love and Sympathy. The envelope was stamped also in melon mambo.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Love and Sympathy, Simply Soft 
Paper: white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, pretty in pink melon mambo, pumpkin pie 
Accessories: ribbon, copics, stickles 
Techniques: copic coloring

More Merry Chritmas Messages WOW Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 569 - Gate Fold. You can follow the SCS GATE FOLD CARD TUTORIAL to make yours. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 360 - Snow and Ice and last weeks CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 359 - WOW Them where we were to use only white on white cs and 1 ink color for the sentiment. These 2 CAS challenges just had to be done together for me. My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 431. I have got to stop with the Christmas cards but this was the 1st thing that came to mind.

RECIPE:

Hope you like it.
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, deer die, Christmas Tree die, Snowflake EF, stickles 
Techniques: 3D, Gate Fold, dry embossing

Sweet Talking Full of Love for You

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 575 where I took a small liberty changing the circle to a heart. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's Black and White and Red all over?". How could I resist making a valentine card with these colors in this weeks challenge? Well I couldn't so I did. What I could do is figure out how to include the odd shape for Monday's TLC and white on white for the CAS challenge this week. LOL. So just 2 challenges for me today but I love how it turned out.
I dry embossed the Darice Hearts diagonal embossing folder on white and matted it on the white cs base then cut the heart from some real red cs. I popped up the black ribbon under the LOVE sentiment cut from black cs.

Hope you like it as much as I do. Have a fabulous day my stamping friends.

For the inside I stamped a sentiment from SU's Full of Life set using cherry cobbler ink and the envelope I stamped the solid heart in cherry cobbler then the open heart and sentiment in momento tuxedo black ink on the front left corner of my envelope.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Full of Life, Sweet Talk 
Paper: white, black, real red 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, Nestability Heart, Memory Box Love die, Darice Hearts Diagonal 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing

Trust in God for ALL things Book Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's Black and White and Red all over?. I had an Uncle that loved to pull that on kids. We probably all have someone in our path that is such a prankster. LOL Anyway all I could think of is books and when I first saw Nestie Label 7 that was all I could think of so guess what I picked up and used? You got it. It is small but the message is mighty and will work very well on a friend's desk that I give to. My odd shaped card is for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 568 - Revisiting Shaped Cards which was a revisit from a previous TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 315 - That's Odd.
I cut the binder from Real red cs and stamped the praying hand image I got years ago at Michaels in black ink then cut the next to the largest from the stack in white cs and stamped the sentiment in black. Adhered a black ribbon and it was done. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Trust God, Praying Hands 
Paper: white, real red 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: ribbon, Nestie Label 7 
Techniques: Shaped card, CAS

Blessings from Heaven Love You

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 568 - Revisiting Shaped Cards fromTECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 315 - That's Odd. I used white on white and the only color is in the sentiment for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 359 - WOW them!.
I cut and embossed the heart nestie 2 largest sizes using white cs then cut the sentiment in white and cherry cobbler. I wanted to use the largest scalloped heart for the base but it seems to have grown legs and walked off.

I stamped the sentiment on the inside in cherry cobbler on the inside and envelope. Now let's go to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, cherry cobbler 
Ink: cherry cobbler 
Accessories: dimensionals, IO Love You die 
Techniques: 3D, CAS, White on White, Shaped Card

God's Short & Sweet Birthday Blessings

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 574. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 564 - I have a Crush on Pacific Sand. I inked up the negative side of the Happy Birthday embossing folder with pacific point then embossed sahara sand circle and ran it through the cuttlebug for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a stamp. I choose to make another HAPPY Birthday card for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are You HAPPY?. I stamped the short & sweet sentiment in cucumber crush on sahara sand cs and punched out a balloon from Martha Stewart punch in pacific point and popped both up on dimensionals.

I also stamped this on the front of the envelope. For the inside I used God's Blessings set and stamped in cucumber crush ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: God's Blessings, Short & Sweet 
Paper: Vanilla, Pacific Point, Cucumber Crush, Sahara Sand, The Paper Studio - Day at the Beach 
Ink: Pacific Point, Cucumber Crush 
Accessories: dimensionals, HB embossing folder, 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, Inking the negative embossing folder

Happy Birthday with Aspen Trees

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 564 - I Have a crush on pacific sand. For Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a stamp I sponged some pacific point on white using TCW Aspen Tree Stencil then matted on pacific point cs. For Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are you HAPPY? I cut the HB die from memory box using cucumber crush cs and glued it to the pacific point circle then popped it up on dimensionals. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 429.
The only stamping done here was on the inside using a set of birthday quotes I picked up at JoAnne's last year in pacific point and on the envelope. I also am going to extend my resolution this year to stamping on the back of the card with my signature stamp. I did this today. YAH! I love picking up a card to give and it is completely finished except for signing a name on the inside. This card was so fun to make and I hope whomever I pass it on to enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed making it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Quotes - Joanne's 
Paper: white, cucumber crush, pacific point, sahara sand 
Ink: Pacific Point 
Accessories: Memory Box HB die, TCW Aspen Trees Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, stenciling, sponging, paper piercing

It's your 10th Birthday Makayla

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a Stamp, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are You Happy? and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 429. We have 3 granddaughter's celebrating birthday's next month so I made Makayla's today who will be turning 10, WOW where does the time go. I cut the circle with a Marvy circle punch then I inked the negative side of the HB embossing folder with watermelon wonder then ran it thru the cuttlebug. This panel is popped up on dimensionals. the panel under that was inked with Tim Holtz Splatter stencil using all 3 colors then matted on watermelon wonder.

The sentiment on the inside and envelope were stamped in watermelon wonder. Hope you like it now let's get back to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday 
Paper: white, crisp cantelope, watermelon wonder, crumb cake 
Ink: crisp cantelope, watermelon wonder, crumb cake 
Accessories: dimensionals, cuttlebug Happy Birthday EF, Tim Holtz Splatter Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, stenciling, cuttlebug negative inking