SU Birthday Basics DSP

Good Morning, everyone! I took refuge from the snow and played along with Freshly Made Sketches # 120 last night. I love the talent over there- the DT samples and all the amazing submissions each week are so inspirational! Creative genius Lesley Croghan has started yet another awesome site to inspire us complete with a star studded Design Team called The Card Concept. I decided to pop this card in the gallery under Challenge #2 “Clean and Layered” cards with “texture” added through paper piercing, the embossed pennant, and layers popped up with dimensionals.

I have been focusing on some cool SAB treats since SALE-A-BRATION 2014 starts on TUESDAY, January 28! Such cute stamp sets, DSP, kits, and embellishments available for each $50 purchase made through March 31st.

Check back on Tuesday to see the SAB 2014 Flyer!

Every year I think they can’t get any better and they end up surprising me! I absolutely love the See Ya Later stamp set with its four neat sayings.

Here is just one of them…

Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU See Ya Later- SAB 2014
INK: SU Raspberry Ripple, SU Bermuda Bay
PAPER: SU Raspberry Ripple, SU Bermuda Bay, SU Gumball Green, SU Very Vanilla, SU Birthday Basics DSP
TOOLS: SU Windows Collection Framelits, SU Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, SU Small Oval Punch (3/4″x 15/16″), SU Stripes EF

It’s time for another fun Friday Mashup Challenge! Holly is giving us a chance to replenish the Birthday card stash we used up last year! And…she has challenged us to use twine on our project/card for the Friday Mashup #142.

I used the new SU Perfect Pennants to create my card. I like to “tighten” up the borders on the pennants so I created my own Smoky Slate pennant between the Very Vanilla one and the Raspberry Ripple one. I did this by die cutting one the same size as the Raspberry Ripple one and lining up the horizontal side up against my Stampin’ Trimmer and trimming 1/16 an inch off each size until I was happy with the size. Doing it this way keeps the pointy ends of the pennant uniform when lined up because sometimes my cutting skills are lacking when I try to cut the banner points via scissors! Then I just line up my pointy ends and trim an equal amount of the pennant off the top.

Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU Perfect Pennants
INK: SU Gumball Green, SU Raspberry Ripple
PAPER: SU Summer Starfruit, SU Raspberry Ripple, SU Smoky Slate, SU Very Vanilla, SU Birthday Basics DSP
ACCESSORIES: SU Bermuda Bay Twine (from the Tag a Bag Bundle)
TOOLS: SU Perfect Pennants Framelits, SU Cupcake Punch for confetti, SU 1/2″ Circle Punch