Simple Shapes & Farm Fever

The first card is basic & simple. The SU stamp set "simple shapes" used for this card will not be available after the End of June. It is amazing how just a few basic shapes can look so nice just by using a few different colors.



The colors for this card are, Ballet Blue, Night of Navy and Bravo Burgandy. The card base is Ballet Blue with Bravo Burgandy to mat the images that are stamped randomly on Very Vanilla cardstock. The Birthday Sentiment is from Sincere Salutaions stamped in Bravo Burgandy and Night of Navy paper matted the sentiment. We used the Rich Regals Bordering Blue Rivets from Stampin Up, and raised the sentiment with dimensionals. The great thing about this card is that you can make it with so many coordinating colors. and it would be very versatile with any phrase. Its a great card style to have at your disposal. A few could be make up just waiting for a sentiment to stamp on it, for those occasions when you need a card and just dont have the time.


The second card uses the fun "Farm Fever" set, and a few items(marked with *) that are in the current SU Spring Mini Catalog. The Spiral Punch* was used to punch the top of the Whisper White cardstock, after the "Petals" jumbo wheel* was used to decorate it, with Pretty in Pink. The main image was stamped with Black Craft Ink, on Pretty in Pink cardstock, and then embossed with Black embossing powder. At home I would have just embossed with clear embossing powder, the effect is the same. after the embossing powder is set with a heat tool then the image is lightened, by using a paint brush to brush bleach on the image. Be very careful when using bleach it does not take a lot and it continues to work after you have painted it. The image was then mounted on Black cardstock and the Horizontal Slot Punch was used to make the hole for the ribbon at the top. "Friend" was stamped with Basic Black Classic ink on a piece of Pretty in Pink Cardstock that was punched with the Round Tab Punch*, cut in half and mounted to the back of the black matting. The ribbon is SU white organdy and Light Pink Gingham. a piece of Confetti white paper was cut to 4 x 5.25" and mounted on the inside of the card for easy writing on the Black cardstock base. I cant figure where this first day of my Memorial weekend has gone. It has just flown by. I am hoping to find some time on Monday to play in my craft room.

I restate today that these cards were cased by my SU Demo from either SCS or SU amgazines or Catalogs and I made them at a party Fri. evening. Thanks again to whomever first designed them for the wonderful ideas and LO's.

And Happy Stamping.....