Nursery Necessities Boy's Birthday Card

This was another of the cards from my recent class "It's Not Just for Babies". This little sail boat makes the cutest little boy birthday card.

The color combos you could use are nearly limitless, but I chose this striped paper from the Summer Picnic set to determine my color combo. The colors are Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive, with some Whisper White as the neutral. I used the 5/8" Old Olive grosgrain to join my layer of textured Bashful Blue and the DSP. No sense in using the textured card stock and covering it up, right? The wavy verse is from Stem Saying and is stamped in Bashful Blue.



Oh, yes, a little paper piercing at the bottom too, I almost forgot that detail!

Happy Stamping!
Brycia

Heartfelt Thanks on Chalkboard

This card is one of two we did in my most recent Techniques Class, which was "Chalkboard Technique" and "Poppin' Pastels". Also, I'm doing some of these for my convention swaps... WHAT was I thinking! This isn't the quickest card for mass-production! Luckily I've had some help from my daughter, Ellen, and her friend Frankie for the swaps. Thanks Girls!!!

For this, I stamped the flowers from Heartfelt Thanks in Craft White on Basic Black and allowed the ink to dry. Meanwhile, I stamped a 1 1/2" by 4 1/4" piece of Old Olive with the Polka Dot (109276) background stamp with Basic Black ink. Thank goodness that background stamp isn't retiring!!! Also I stamped the Lavendar Lace card with a verse from Stem Sayings, again using Basic Black Classic Ink. I attached the Old Olive piece to the card and tied the Black Grosgrain around the front by making a slit in the spine of the card. After the craft ink dried, I colored the image with Stampin' Pastels, added a tab made with the Word Window Punch and a black brad, and attached the black card stock to the card using dimensionals.

Happy Stamping!
Brycia