Amazing Birthday Colour Me Playful PP201

I loved having some time to create this morning. I need to build my stash of masculine cards, with three sons celebrating birthdays between now and beginning of October. The colours at the challenge this week for colour me..! look to be perfectly playful for my card using Amazing Birthday stamp set. You'll find it in the new Stampin' Up Catalogue, and it was a Make & Take stamp set for us at Stampin' Up! South Pacific Convention.

The sketch at the Paper Players looks like you should use patterned paer for the centre strip and I bet it looks just great that way too, but I was sure this would also team beautifully with this pennant style greeting stamp. I could have used one of the circular greetings which come in Amazing Birthday, but decided on Love Ya from Just Sayin' . Maybe I will add Sam's name to this too. My pennants at the top are from Tape It, I used that stamp set for Aaron's card too. It's not a new set, but I'm seeing it with fresh eyes at the moment.

I've been hanging out for the end of the week (my working week anyway) because I am so exhausted from moving offices at work. We do begin our school holidays in Victoria this Friday too, but at some stage over the holidays, our team will need to go in to work to finish off - after the moving men have tackled the heavy cupboards and filing cabinets. Us 'girls' handled the moving of four desks on a trolley, assisted by my dear hubby.Plus there was a myriad of smaller items to lug across the whole school, so it was probably more exercise for me than I'm used to!!!

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Rachel




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Hip Hip Hooray For Birthdays!

Usually on Thursday morning I go for a swim, but this morning I needed to do some work on the computer first and my fingers strayed to some challenge sites. I ended up making this card using the colours in the Colour Q challenge and the sketch from Cas(e) This Sketch. As well, I should give some credit to LeAnne Pugliese at Wee Inklings who frequently inspires my creativity.

The main stamp set I used was Tape It which was new this time last year. I had it on my 'wish list' straight away, but then probably used it only once. Don't know why, I still think its  a great stamp set with lots of possibilities, so I will resolve to use it so much more. I actually stamped all the pieces out in three colours, the Pacific Point, Summer Starfruit and Coastal Cabana so I could choose from a variety to layer on my card. The one piece from Tape It stamped in Calypso Coral has been stamped direct to the card front. You will be able to see in the close up that all the other pieces of Tape It have been stamped, cut out and adhered with Snail.

I thought the Hip Hip Hooray from the card pack of the same name, was an ideal greeting stamp to cut rough across the top, echoing the pieces of tape. I stamped first in Calypso Coral, then a second piece in Summer Starfruit, which was glued over and wrapped with linen thread.

Hopefully this is a masculine card, but I'm not too sure that it is (maybe I need the greeting to be in the blues, after all).

Just sometimes I feel a need to round off corners, and today was one of those days! Its great that two layers of card fit into the corner rounder on the Envelope Punch Board, so you can cut the front and back of the spine of a card too. Then the Whisper White and Summer Starfruit layers, also received the treatment before everything was stuck in place.

Now...away for a swim for me.
Hope your day is productive too!
Rachel

Fire Engine Birthday Card FMS#113

Have you had a good weekend?
Mine was very nice, although I haven't anything too exciting to report. I've had a haircut, read a lot, and crafted a little.
Tonight I decided to cross another "must-do" off my list, and made a birthday card for a grandson turning 4 on December 18th. Oh my, how quickly those years have flown by!
Cindy at Freshly Made Sketches challenged us with this clean and simple sketch, and I decided to mount my new Tape It stamp set, along with You're My Hero (for the fire engine) and Memorable Moments (for the number).

The colours are Real Red, Pacific Point and Whisper White. The image has been punched with the one inch square punch, the coloured squares with the retired 1¼ inch punch.

I've stamped another red fire engine inside along with the 'Happy Birthday' greeting from the set.
Any questions, feel free to leave a comment or email me at rpalmieri5@bigpond.com.

Thanks for calling by
See you again soon
Rachel