4th of July Glitter Window

Using the glitter window technique, I glittered my way to completing my 4th of July cards!  I punched a square shape on some scrap paper and created a template to use to place the brilliant blue ink that created the blue flag square on some glossy white cardstock.  Then I places strips of blue painters tape over the cardstock, and ripped them in half creating a jagged edge.  Using real red ink on a dauber I colored the stripes red.  

Using both the small and large star punches I randomly punched out the stars!  All of the cards came out just a little bit different.  Some have large stripes, some have small ones but in the end they all looked just like little flag cards~!  A girl can never have enough sparkle can she! 

New Catty Swap!

With the new Stampin' Up! catty arriving July 1st, my SU friends and myself are participating in a new catty pre-order swap.  I chose to use the new Asian Artistry set, then challenged myself to come up with something that would be easy to duplicate - but invitingly different.

You can't see it very well in these photos, but the bird on the center panel is cut out and popped up using a dimensional.  I turned the polka dot grosgrain ribbon over and used the solid side.  The card is very simple, but surprisingly attractive.  I can't wait to see what swaps using the new catty products we get back in return!  I'll keep you posted!  LOL 

Fathers Day Swing Card

I get so excited when I come across a new type of fold for a card.  This card is called "flip flop or swing fold" and is soooo interactive!  Okay - so it took a little while to cut the opening for this card, and honestly it may be due to my lack of being able to understand the measurements on the cutter.  I started out way back when using my cutter upside down - and well . . .  this old scrapper isn't about to learn how to use it correct now!

The way this card is folded allowed me to stamp and image on one side, and a sentiment on the other.  I used a retired SU background stamp, and the focal image is from B-line designs, vintage auto's, and the sentiment is from the dollar bin at Michael's.

In cleaning my stamp room I came across some old polyshrink material that I had used one summer with the neighborhood kids, and couldn't resist playing with it.  I stamped the sentiment on it, and punched it out with SU scallop punch.  Tying it on with SU linen thread turned it into little embellishment! My youngest son will be so proud to see one of his treasured cars featured in my photo - you can never have enough matchbox cars in his opinion!

Off to the mailbox again to mail this little treasure to my FIL.  Happy father's day Dad!  We love you!

Pop Up Thank You!

I volunteered to make a thank you card for a special friend!  After pondering and calling on this creative lady's mojo - I came up with this!

Using the new three tier - 3-D  pop up die from Stampin' Up! look what I made!  Turning the cake upside down it creates a flower pot!  I left the longest strip a little wider than what the template called for and used the SU scallop edge punch to create a scalloped edge on the pot. 

 
To create the flower I used the daisy's #2 die from Sizzix.  Cut out in whisper white cardstock, and a baja breeze corduroy button for it's center, it looked sooooo cute stuck on the center of some leaves that I just free hand cut out and stuck down the center of the "pot" top!  I know she will totally love this card!