Stampin' Up! Happy Birthday

I make birthday cards to send to members of my Sunday School class throughout the year. We have anywhere from 35 to 50 in our class so I am making  this one for an upcoming January birthday. The one I made yesterday was for the same purpose. Like yesterday, my inspiration came from 3 challenge sites:

1. Freshly Made Sketches #320 - A Sketch by Rita

2. WWC152 - Kath's "All About Occasions" Challenge

3. Color Throwdown #475

For the front of my card, I adhered a mat of Night of Navy to a Whisper White card base. I then adhered a mat of Pink Pirouette to that. After cutting the Tempting Turquoise mat, I ran it through my Big Shot using the Petal Burst TIEF and Fast Fused it to the Pink Pirouette. I cut scraps of matching cardstock to make the banner and snipped the ends with my Paper Snips Scissors. The sentiment is from Party Pandas, which is available for free thru Sale-A-Bration if your purchase totals $50. (See my January 2 post OR click on the "Sale-A-Bration Info tab at the top of my blog.) I stuck the banners together with glue dots and Fast Fused it to the embossed panel...card front done!

For the inside, I used Night of Navy, Flirty Flamingo and Tempting Turquoise inks. The sentiments are from Amazing You (another Sale-A-Bration set), the fireworks are from In the City, and the pandas are from the set mentioned above. 

I stamped the pandas in Memento Tuxedo Black, used my Pink Pirouette Blends to color the balloon. I used my Stampin' Write Markers to color in the dots on the party hat and to edge the mat.

All supplies can be found below along with measurements.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll let me know if you think these pandas are as cute as I think they are!

Cardstock:

Whisper White Card base: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (scored and folded at 4 1/4")

Night of Navy mat: 5 1/2" x 3"

Pink Pirouette mat: 5 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Tempting Turquoise mat: 5 1/2" x 2"

Scraps of mat colors

Whisper White mat: 5 1/4" x 4"

Supplies:

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $9.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100867] $8.00	Pink Pirouette 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [111351] $8.00
Tempting Turquoise 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102067] $8.00	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [126970] $6.50	Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad [126952] $6.50
Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [141397] $6.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262] $29.00
Pink Pirouette Dark Stampin' Blends Marker [144592] $4.50	Pink Pirouette Light Stampin' Blends Marker [144593] $4.50	Party Pandas Clear-Mount Stamp Set [147221] $0.00
Amazing You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [147215] $0.00	In The City Photopolymer Stamp Set [143771] $16.00	Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [141493] $7.50
Paper Snips Scissors [103579] $10.00	Glue Dots [103683] $5.25	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026] $10.00
Stampin' Trimmer [126889] $30.00	Big Shot [143263] $110.00	Big Shot Platform [142802] $26.00
Standard Cutting Pads [113475] $11.00

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Stampin' Up! Birthday Delivery

Oh, my gosh...two days in a row I have not even paid attention to my retired stamps and DSP...here's another current one for you...life is good!

My inspiration came from these three challenges:

1. TSOT #353 = I need a sketch to get motivated!

2. SIP #132 = I need a theme to keep me going!!

3. TGIF #141 = I need colors to pull it all together and finish it!!!

My card base is Island Indigo. The strip is Fresh Fig, embossed with the Cuttlebug Organic Flourish folder, and the art piece is a Night of Navy layering square mat with Whisper White mat adhered to it. The Whisper White is stamped in Black Memento ink with a cake stamp from Birthday Delivery. I colored it in with a Blender Pen using Fresh Fig, Night of Navy and Island Indigo inks. I used my Daffodil Delight watercolor pencil for the flames on the candles. The three dots are Night of Navy Regals Enamel Shapes. The sentiment is also from Birthday Delivery and is stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. When you do heat embossing, it is important to use the embossing buddy on your card stock first so the powder does not adhere and melt where it is unwanted!

I had so much fun making this card because I knew who it was for AND I did the inside and envelope at the same time.  Take a look see (as Mary would say)...

The banner and fox come from the Birthday Memories DSP. I stamped the Hip Hip Hooray on the banner with Island Indigo. I die cut the fox and banner with the Birthday Friends Framelits. The "let's celebrate" is stamped in Night of Navy. 

I used a stamp from the Birthday Delivery set for the front of the envelope and DSP for the envelope flap. Mary says we can never have a "nekkid" envelope!

The recipient is a male and I think this is fairly masculine. He has a young daughter who has probably read Richard Scarry's books so I hope he likes it. I also hope she totally gets it and says, "Dad, can I start making cards too?"

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my creation.

Products used:

Island Indigo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122923] $8.00	Fresh Fig 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144242] $8.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100867] $8.00
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $9.00	Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper [144118] $11.00	Fresh Fig Classic Stampin' Pad [144082] $6.50
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986] $6.50	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [126970] $6.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00
Blender Pens [102845] $12.00	Watercolor Pencils [141709] $16.00	Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708] $35.00
Birthday Friends Framelits Dies [143658] $31.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $8.50	Embossing Buddy [103083] $6.00
Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130] $5.00	Heat Tool [129053] $30.00	Big Shot [113439] $110.00
Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] $40.00	Standard Cutting Pads [113475] $11.00	Glue Dots [103683] $5.25
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $4.00	Regals Enamel Shapes [141681] $9.00

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