Birthday Wishes

Pretty colors, great sketch, a wee bit of watercoloring and what you do you get?  A clean and simple birthday card.  It's an easy card to make which is something I'm thankful for as a headache does not allow for long periods of creativity.

My card was made for the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge and the Color Throwdown Challenge.

Stamp Set:  Avant Garden (sentiment); Ink:  Pool Party; Cardstock:  Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Watercolor Paper; Other:  Blushing Bride Fancy Frost Sequins, Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies

The sketch I used is from the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

The colors I used are from the Color Throwdown Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Pretty Shaker Butterflies

It's Saturday night and I'm in the middle of a Downton Abbey marathon but I wanted to take time to share this fun shaker card with you.  This is one that I made at the shaker card class I took last fall at the 2016 Stamp Joy Event.  I fell in love with shaker cards and have made several since.  I don't know the names of the product used but I love the colors but I wanted to share it with you as I think it's a very pretty shaker card.

I'm play along with the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Happy Birthday Wishes

Flowers.  What can I say?  I love flowers!  Which is only one reason why I wanted to play along with The Paper Players Challenge.  Another reason was to share the Avant Garden stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.  It is a favorite and is free with a $50 order.

My card base is made using Whisper White Thick cardstock.  The center square is cut from Whisper White cardstock using the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.  The main flower is stamped in Wisteria Wonder ink and the leaves are stamped in Pear Pizzazz ink.  I stamped off the other flowers to give a softer look as well as the leaves.  The center of the flower and the sentiment were stamped using Early Espresso ink.  The stitched square was added to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.

And there you have it.  Another pretty flower card added to my stash of birthday cards.  I never seem to have enough of them.

My inspiration for my cards comes for The Paper Players Challenge.  For all the challenge details and to share your project, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Elegant Birthday

Making birthday cards is something I love to do.  This one is going to a very dear lady who has become like a second mother to me.  She's such a sweet woman and I love her dearly.  I kept the design clean and simple and let that beautiful Elegant Birthday stamped image be the focal point.  The stamp set is retired but it's one I know I will use for many years to come.

Stamp Set:  Elegant Birthday (retired); Ink:  Night of Navy; Cardstock:  Night of Navy, Whisper White; Other:  Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies, Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies, Itty Bitty Accents Heart Punch, Metal Rimmed Pearl

The sketch I used is from the Sunday Stamps Challenge.  For all the challenge details, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha

Sparkly Thank You Pine

With all of my Christmas cards done, I turned my thoughts to the thank you cards that we all will need to send out.  Whether it be for a gift or the sharing of a meal with friends or family, I always like to have thank you cards ready so I can get them in the mail quickly.  I'm so glad that my mother taught me the value of sending thank yous.

For my "old" stamp, I picked Lovely As a Tree.  It's been around for as long as I've been a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  The earliest date I could find on Split Coast was 2003.  I'm not sure, but I think it could be older than that.  Anyway, it's a tried and true wonderful stamp set that has endured and I, for one, hope it continues to do so.

While it is not showing up well in the photo, I used my Heat & Stick Powder and added some sparkle using Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder.  I covered the entire rectangle and it gives it a sparkly effect that looks like snow glistening at night as it falls from the sky.

Stamp Sets:  Lovely As a Tree, Rose Wonder (sentiment); Inks:  Night of Navy, Old Olive; Cardstock:  Whisper White; Patterned Paper:  Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack; Other:  Heat & Stick Powder, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder

The sketch I used is from the Retro Rubber Challenge.  For all the challenge details, click the image below.

Thanks for stopping in at the Coffee Pot Stamping Cafe,

Marsha