Carrie Stamps

Minnie Mouse Birthday Card

Hi Stampin' Friends! 

We are on our way to a family birthday party.  One of the cousins is having a Minnie Mouse Birthday Party!  We just had one ourselves for my daughter Hannah, infact they are borrowing my Bow Wreath.  

I made this birthday girl the card I wanted to make for my daughter, but ran out of time with all the other party prepping there was to do.  All I knew that I wanted to do was to make a Minnie Mouse dress from the All Dressed Up Framelits.  This is the card that came from that idea: 

This is a step card.  You can see my other birthday step card HERE and there are directions on how to make your own step card on that post as well. 

To make my Minnie Mouse dress, I had to make my own polka dotted paper.  So, I punched out several Whisper White circles using my Cupcake Builder Punch and adhered them to a piece of Melon Mambow card stock, then I die cut my dress.  I added the ruffle to the bottom that this from the tank top dress in the All Dressed Up framelits set.  Here is a close up of the dress: 

Can you see Mini Mouse in this dress??? I might wear this dress! 

To complete the card I added some Minnie Mouse balloons, which I created with circle punches: 3/4" circle punch and the circle punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch pack. The bow was made with the Owl Builder Punch: punch out two hearts and one circle from the Cupcake Builder Punch, glue the hearts together at the point and cover the points with the circle.  The string of the balloon is from the Sketched Birthday set, which is the set I got the Happy Birthday Banner for this card as well. 

I am excited to give this card! 

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Convention CASE

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Today I am sharing a card that I saw demonstrated at convention and how I added a piece to make this card work better. When I saw this card I LOVED it!  The cuttest bday card, it looks like a present! 

Here is how the card opens: 

I found that when I opened this card the insert pulled up really well, but it did not slide back down easily at all! , especially with a layer on the pull out. 

So, here is what I added to this card to fix that. (follow these pics to make this card)

1. Cut your card stock to 4-1/4" x 11".  Score it at 1-1/2" and 7".

Cut your edge pieces to 1" x 3-7/8", you will need two of them, score both at 1/2" or down the middle. 

Add sticky strip to both side of both edge pieces.  

2. Adhere the edge pieces to the back of the card. Remove sticky strip backing and close the front of the card, adhering it down. 

3. This gives the pocket of the card a little wiggle room.  If you need more, help it out by putting your hand in the pocket and stretch it open more. 

4. Add your designer paper: Daffodil Delight DSP = 1" x 4" and 1" x 4-1/4" (for scalloped piece), Strawberry Slush DSP = 1-1/2" x 4-1/4" and 1/2" x 1-1/2" (2) flag the ends of these. Also, add a strip of Basic Black card stock that is 1/8" x 4-1/4". 

5.  Add the insert: 3-1/2" wide x 4-1/4" long,  score at 1/2".  Adhere with sticky strip so it looks like this...

6.  Add you inside sentiment or a GIFT CARD would be even more fun! Now add the bow (made with the new Bow Maker Die and polka dot embossing folder) and gift tag to the outside of you card. 

recipe: 

stamps: really good greetings

ink: versamark

paper: crumb cake, strawberry slush, whisper white, basic black, quatrefancy speicalty designer paper

accessories: vintage faceted deisgner buttons, linen thread

tools: big shot, bow maker die, polka dot embossing folder, chalk talk framelits, tasteful trim die

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Stampin' Royalty Challenge #191

Hi Stampin' Friends! 

It's Stampin' Royalty Challenge Day! 

Challenge #191: The Shape of Things - CIRCLES! 

For my card I decided to use a piece of card candy that I got from a swap at convention.  My downline Patty made the distressed DSP flower using circle punches.  I thought it would be the perfect piece to use for this card. 

Here is the fun part about this card.  The yellow circle that the flower is on is a mini card too.  You untuck it from behine the sentiment and open it to open the card...

I stamped a sentiment on the inside as well from the Yippee-Skippee Stamp Set. 

I stamped a background for the inside of the card as well, it's a extra piece of rubber from the Day Dream Medallions Stamp Set, save it and use it as another image. 

Now check out what my fellow design team members have done with circles! And please joy our challenge, the more the merrier!  Just link your project to today's post, more details HERE. 

recipe: 

stamps: round array, yippee-skippee, daydream medallion

ink: melon mambo, versamark

paper: melon mambo, gingham garden designer paper, daffodil delight, island indigo, pear pizzazz, 

accessories: basic rhinestone jewels, paper clip (non-SU!), simply pressed clay and button mold, white baker's twin, vanilla shimmer spray (on the distressed circle flower)

tools: Big Shot, 3" Circle Die (or you could use framelits to make the mini circle card), circle punches, 7/8" scallop circle punch, 1" circle punch, jewelry tag punch, itty bitty punch pack, dimensionals, hot glue (to hold down clay buttons)

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Spread the Joy

Hi Stampin' Friends! 

It's Stampin' Royalty Challenge Day!  This week our challenge is a fun color challenge: 

I love that it uses two of our new in-colors, I adore this years colors!  And Crumb Cake is a STAPLE in my craft room, so I was excited to play with this challenge.  I also decided to play with a new stamp set called Spread the Joy designed by an employee at Stampin' Up, who is not a concept artist, Emily Montoya.  Isn't it so cute!!! 

She won a "design a stamp set" challenge that Stampin' Up! had for empolyees and the general public as well.  Soon another stamp set that was designed by a customer is going to be released. 

Here is my card: 

close up: 

You can see I splattered the backgound.  The gold is smooch spritz that is retired and the crumb cake splatters were stamped with the Gorgeous Grunge set. 

Now click over to Stampin' Royalty to see what my fellow design team members have created with these fun colors, and see how you can play along with our challenge! 

Undefined Owl Stamps

Hi Stampin' Friends! 

I have been CARVING!  Carving stamps!  Have you seen the new Undefined Stamp Kit?  

It's a kit to carve your own stamps!  It was unveiled at Stampin' Up! Convention in July.  They gave all of us a piece of the rubber, a piece of foam and a wood block to try it out.  It took me a long time to decide what I wanted to carve.  

I decided on an owl.  Then I drew a TON of owls until I came up with the one!  

After a few weeks I finally decided to make something with my owl, which inspired me to carve some more stamps!  I only used the rubber that came in the kit, but found I could make more stamps than the amount of blocks in the kit.  So, I used some blocks that I had on hand and ended up carving 9 more stamps! 

And here is the card I made, using all 10 of my hand carved stamps!  

On the front of my card you can see all four of my owl stamps, my branch, flower and "hoot" greeting.  I used all of the 2013 In Colors for this card. 

On the inside of the card you can see the rest of my stamps: 

Here I used the two cloud stamps and the leaf stamp for the branch. 

One more thing I wanted to point out is that one of my owl stamps can be punched out with the Owl Builder Punch!!!  

I punched out an owl from a piece of printer paper then drew the owl I wanted on the punched piece and carved it.  Once I stamp the image I draw in the eye balls and the punch it out!  

I know you will have fun with the Undefined Stamp kit.  The possiblities are endless!  Check out my Undefined Pinterest Board for more ideas and get your Undefined Stamp Kit HERE. 

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Stampin' Royalty Challenge #189

Check out this week's picture inspiration challenge!  Love the colors and the Hexagons!  

Here is my inspired card: 

I loved the field of flowers with the green grass, so that is where I took my color inspiration.  I got the layout idea from a card I saw on Pinterest by Valerie Moody.  

For the background I knew I had to use my Honeycomb embossing folder!  I gave it some more dimension by brushing some ink on it.  First I rubbed my Crisp Cantaloupe stamp pad directly to my embossed background.  Next, I rubbed my God Metaliic Encore Pad directly over the background.  I also spritzed it with some Gold Smooch Spritz (retired).  

The flower is made out of four flowers punched with the Blossom Punch out of Creped Filter Paper.  After punching out my flowers I spritzed them with a mixture of Alcohol and Crisp Cantaloupe ink, which I mixed in a Stampin' Spritzer bottle. I used alcohol instead of water because it dries faster. 

Even in this close up it maybe hard to see that I brused ink on the flower too.  The center of the flower is a Simply Pressed Clay creation.  I pressed the white clay into the largest flower mold.  After it was dry I spritzed it with a mixture of alcohol and Early Espresso ink.  

Want to play along with our challenge?  Make a card inspired by our picture and link it to today's post.  Your creation might be selected as one of this week's top picks!  

Now take a look at what my fellow Goddesses made for this challenge. 

recipe: 

stamps: itty bitty banners

ink: crisp cantaloupe, early espresso, gold metallic encore, gold smooch spritz (retired) 

paper: crisp cantaloupe card stock, creped filter paper, epic day this and that designer paper, whisper white card stock, champagne glimmer paper

accessories: simply pressed clay, pearl basic jewels (large and basic), hung up cute clips

tools: blossoms simply pressed clay molds, stampin' sprizter, small heart punch, 2-1/2" circle punch, blossom punch, big shot, bitty banners framelits, honeycomb embossing folder

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Minnie Mouse Birthday

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I thought I would share with you all the fun things I have been working on for my daughter's 5th Birthday!  She wanted to have a Minnie Mouse birthday party, I have been searching the world wide web and most of what I did for this party was inspired by that research.  Including the invitations, which I made with the help of My Digital Studio! 

This is the front of the invitation, which is a 7" x 5" post card.  When you get your post cards printed from Stampin' Up! the come with very nice envelopes, which means I get to fancy up the back of the post card too! 

MDS helped me with a few other decore pieces for my party. 

A Minnie Mouse Subway Art piece: 

Here is what the subway art looked like after I printed it out and mounted it:

At our party we did Minnie Mouse Manicures (pink nails with white polka dots) Here is a little sign I made in MDS for the manicure table: 

The bow for this piece was created using the all new Gift Bow Bigz L Die in the 2013 Holiday Catalog. 

I had some great helper at do the manicures at the party, my cousin-in-law Jen painted the girls nails. 

And my husband did the white polka dots (love him!): 

Another project I did in MDS to give my Minnie Mouse party that special touch were water bottle wraps: 

And now for the COOLEST thing I made for the party.  Well, I guess it is the thing I am most proud of, my Bow Wreath! 

The bows, again were made with the Gift Bow Die.  The Minnie Mouse element was made using My Digital Studio and says, "Hip, Hip, Hooray, we're glad you're here to stay!" The base of the wreath I made out of a piece of white chipboard (that comes in a pack of Designer Paper).  I traced a larger dinner plate and then a small plate in the center and then cut it out. 

The kids love the Bow-tique!  Where they got to pick their headband and felt and create their own Bow Headband. Like this one my daughter is wearing. 

Once again, we used the Gift Bow Die to make these fun headbands.  

Here is the Bow-tique, you can see the cute banner I made for it across the top. 

Here you can see the Happy Birthday Banner I made with my Big Shot: 

close up: 

Styrofoam ball, black spray paint, fun foam, hot pink feather trim, melon mambo card stock bow and lots of hot glue = Minnie Mouse Center Piece: 

And how about some Minnie Mouse cake pops????

I am the FIRST to admit that my creative talents DO NOT carry over to cake decorating!  I can make a YUMMY dessert but not a cute one.  So, I know these are not perfect, but I am VERY pleased with how they came out!  And, yes, they were DELICIOUS!  

My oldest daughter helped me out with some decorations too.  I asked her to draw me a Minnie Mouse so I could hang it up and I got these two cute creations: 

We played a game of Pin the Bow on Minnie.. 

It was a fun party!  Happy Birthday to my Hanny! 

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Lovely Little Framed Art

Hi Stampin' Friends! 

It's Stampin' Royalty Challenge Day!  Today's challenge, #188 is "It's the Little Things, Big Uses for Small Scraps".  

I created my project using only scraps and decided is was the perfect time to use my littlest stamp set and punches as well. 

This is a little 2" x 3" frame that my daughter gave me as a gift several months ago.  For some reason when I saw this challenge this frame came to mind and I knew it was time to use it.  

The little stamp set I used is Lovely Little Labels. I use eight of the stamps from the set on this piece.

I also used the coordinating punch pack that coordinates with this stamp set, the Little Labels Punch Pack. 

I also used a fun new stamp set, Gorgeous Grunge for the large splatters in the background.  The small splatters were made with a color spritzer tool and the Costal Cabana marker.  You could also use another of the stamp images from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set for smaller splatter.  Then I distressed the edge of my Costal Cabana card stock with the Stampin' Distress Tool.  To add some smears of ink, I touched my finger to the Baked Brown Sugar Stamp pad and rubbed and smeared ink where I wanted it.  

Most of all I had fun making this piece.  Now, click HERE to see what my fellow Goddesses created with their scraps. 

recipe: 

stamps: lovely little labels, gorgeous grunge

ink: baked brown sugar, strawberry slush, costal cabana

paper: baked brown sugar, strawberry slush, costal cabana, whisper white

accessories: vanilla seam binding, linen thread, pearl basic jewels, Key trinket (retired)

tools: little label punch pack, stampin' distress tool, dimensionals, boho blossoms punch, hand held 1/16" circle punch (retired), hot glue gun, color spritzer tool (retired) 

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Our amazing new Thinlits Card Dies cut and score to create a card that flips in just one step.

Item	Description	Price
133479	Label Card Thinlits Die	$32.95 us/$40.95 can
133480	Circle Card Thinlits Die	$32.95 us/$40.95 can

 

Label Card Thinlits Dies

Circle Card Thinlits Dies

These new card dies come with extra die pieces that have versatile designs, so you can use them on other projects, not just for flip cards. (The Circle Card Thinlits Die comes with 10 total pieces; the Label Card Thinlits Die comes with nine total pieces.)

With the number of dies you’re getting, plus the die that creates the card itself, the price is a great value—especially to create an interactive card!

• The main shape in the cards (circle and label) can work with a lot of our stamp images so you can create tons of different kinds of cards using many different stamp sets. Here are just a few suggestions to get you started:

Label Card Thinlits Die (item 133479):

• Happy Day Stamp Set (item 130294 W item 130297 C)

Circle Card Thinlits Die (item 133480):

• Worth the Wait Stamp (item 131094 W)
• Five-Way Flower Stamp (item 131088 W)

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• Oh, Hello Stamp Set (item 131931 W item 130733 C)
• Yippee-Skippee! Stamp Set (item 131341 W item 131344 C)
• Really Good Greetings Stamp Set (item 130330 W item 130333 C)
• Regarding Dahlias Stamp Set (item 130324 W item 130327 C)

• These dies also work well with our new magnetic platform (item 130658) so you can place dies exactly where you want them.

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