Birthday Confetti Card - a CASE

This card I CASEd from Cindy Wilkinson here  I saw it on her blog this morning and I just loved it.

Some people, including Cindy, call this a faux shaker card, and I guess in some ways it is.  I call it a confetti card, because the window sheet pouch is filled with confetti (made by punching the Star border punch)

To make the card I started with a Tangerine Tango base layered with Birthday Bash DSP.

The confetti pouch is quite easy to make.  Take 2 pieces of  3 1/2 by 4 3/4" of window sheet and apply Washi tape on 3 sides of it.  To this pouch add confetti made by punching  pieces of Tangerine Tango, and Bermuda bay cardstock and punching them with the Star border punch.  For some bling I unstrung some gold sequins and added it to the mix (save 4 or 5 of them to decorate the outside of the card).  After the confetti has been added, seal the top with a piece of Washi tape.

Before attaching it to the card, I wrapped a piece of Calypso coral ribbon from the Best Year Ever Accessory pack (SAB) and tied it into a bow near the top.  The sentiment, stamped in Tangerine Tango and die cut with the banner framelit was added to the top with one edge slightly under the ribbon.  Dimensionals were used for this.

The sentiment was stamped using Bermuda Bay ink, and punched with the 2 1/2" circle punch, then layered with a piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock which had been die cut with the Starburst framelit. The two were adhered together with dimensionals, and added to the card with dimensionals as well.
The sentiment was stamped a second time with Tangerine Tango, and the banner "sentiment" was cut out and attached to the punched out one with two small pieces of dimensionals.

The confetti pouch was attached to the card with Vellum tape.  If you don't have any of that you can use glue dots.  Snail adhesive will show through the window sheet.

Here's a side view that shows the confetti in the pouch and the sentiment attached to the card.

The last thing I did was take those extra sequins and add them several places on the front of the card.

Here's a list of supplies I used:

 

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Happy Birthday with Tulip Flowers

This stamp is originally an Easter stamp, but I cut off the sentiment so that the stamp is more versatile.
This stamp would make a wonderful Birthday card, so that's what I did.

The tulips were stamped with Black Memento ink and coloured with blendabilities (Melon Mambo and Old Olive).  I then cut the tulips out. 

A small oval was die cut using Whisper White cardstock, and the edges pierced with the Occasions Paper Piercing Pack and a Paper Piercer.  This was adhered to a Melon Mambo label framlet die cut using dimensionals.

The tulips were adhered to the white oval and dazzling details added to the edges of the blooms.

The basic card is Melon Mambo, layered with Whisper White cardstock embossed with the Polka dot embossing folder.  Two sizes of banners were die cut using the Banners Framelits - the larger one using Sweet Taffy DSP; the smaller one in Old Olive which had been embossed with the Tiny Triangles Embossing folder.  The two banners were adhered together and then added to right side of the Whisper White cardstoc.

The focal image was adhered to the upper left.  Below this image, a Melon Mambo bow, made with the Bow Builder punch, was added.

The sentiment, stamped in Old Olive, is from "Big Day" (SAB)

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Butterfly Happy Birthday - Technostamper #348

I have a few birthdays coming up - and besides a Stampin' Up order came today and I just had to play with some of the stuff.
So, for the Technostamper challenge this week here I thought I would make a birthday card featuring the new Butterfly framelit.  I love it!  The framelit I mean.

 

A 4 3/4 by 3" piece of Whisper White card stock was embossed with Alphabet Press embossing folder and the surface lightly inked with Blushing Bride ink.  Across the bottom of this strip a 3/4" strip of Flowerpot DSP was attached.  A 1/8" strip of Garden Green cardstock was attached to the top of this.

A circle was die cut using the Circle framelits, Versa Mark ink applied, followed by heat and stick powder and dazzling diamonds.  Then using the new Butterfly thinlet die, a butterfly was die cut using Blushing Bride cardstock.  Placing wax paper between the cardstock and the die really helped in getting the "little pieces" out of the final product.  A little bit of tombo glue adhered the butterfly to the glittered circle.

This circle was adhered to the prepared card using dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped in Garden Green.  It is from the Sale-a-bration stamp set "Big Day".  It was punched out using the Decorative Label punch.  To make the punchie smaller it was re-inserted into the punch.  It was matted with Garden Green cardstock.  The sentiment was also attached to the card using dimensionals.

Using a Blushing Bride marker, a small area of Dazzling diamond glitter paper was coloured, then stamped with the small heart punch.  This heart was attached to the sentiment with a glue dot.

The image panel was matted with Garden Green cardstock, and a scalloped strip was placed at the top.  The entire image panel was attached to the card front using dimensionals.  The card front, which is Blushing Bride card stock was embossed with the Large Dots embossing folder first.

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I also used the new Butterfly framelits and the Sale-a-bration stamp set "Big Day" both of which will be available Jan. 6, 2015

All of the above can be ordered through my on-line store, the link to which is in the side bar of my blog.