Strength and Hope card

Here's a card we made at my workshop last night.  It features the set Strength and Hope.  I love the butterfly in this set, and SU is donating $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for each set sold!

The card also features the new Flirtatious Specialty DSP.  That's where the doily came from!  There are 2 sheets of doilies.  You can use them as one big sheet in a scrapbook or cut them apart like I did.  The card base is 8 X 5 1/4 Whisper White with a back mat of Melon Mambo.  The DSP strip is 1 1/2 X 4 with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border in Wisteria Wonder.  Hope is stamped in Wisteria Wonder onto Pretty in Pink, and the sentiment is stamped in Pretty in Pink.  The butterfly is Pretty in Pink edged with Wisteria Wonder.  (It looks good in Melon Mambo too!)

Happy stamping!

Another Sunny Garden card

This was not a quick card!  One of the Creative Crew challenges this month is to use Sunny Garden DSP.  I started with a piece that just has Daffodil Delight.  I used 2 other colors from the DSP (Pear Pizzazz and Peach Parfait) but added Marina Mist for a different look.

I wanted strips of cardstock and used the scallop corner punch to add an interesting shape to them.  At the top of that I tied Pear Pizzazz ribbon.  The sentiment is stamped in Pear Pizzazz backed by the decorative label punch cut in half.  I inked the butterfly in Daffodil Delight then added Peach Parfait around the edges.  (The sentiment and butterfly are from Strength and Hope in the Summer Mini.  SU is donating $2 to breast cancer research for each stamp set sold.)  Lots of pearls ala Ponygirl40 finish the look.

Happy stamping!

Feminine/masculine challenge part 1

One of this month's Creative Crew challenges is to create both a feminine and a masculine card using the same sketch.  I decided that I wanted my two cards to look completely different from each other (besides the sketch of course).  For the sketch, I decided to CASE my feminine card from Julie Davison.  I changed up the colors a little and used a punched border instead of a ripped border.  The stamp set is Strength and Hope from the Summer Mini.  For each stamp set sold, Stampin' Up! is donating $2 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation!

Come back Wednesday to see my masculine card.

Supplies: Stamps: Strength and Hope; Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Concord Crush, Lap of Luxury DSP; Accessories: eyelet border punch, pearls

Happy stamping!