Birthday Cards « Nicole Stalker

Butterfly Birthday

My eldest daughter has a birthday party to attend for her best friend this afternoon so last night I needed to make up a gift box for her present. I was also asked to make the card. My girls do have a good supply of their own Stampin’ Up goodies but seeing I was making the gift box I’d just make the card to coordinate.

I managed to make the gift box last night which was an idea that came from Sarah Wills’ gorgeous Carton Style gift box which you can see and also download a tutorial for here. Unfortunately my gift box needed to be a little bigger than the one in Sarah’s tutorial so I had to alter how I did mine but the outcome looks just the same. Of course I’ve used different colours, stamps and embellishments too.

Here’s my version of the gift box.

If you’re a regular visitor to my blog you may notice that I’ve used the same colour combination as in my last post creation here. Some of my stamping buddies were looking at this card at our stamp night last night when my daughter was selecting the colour combination for the gift box and when she saw it she wanted those same colours. Seeing how her friends favourite colour is blue the Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo & Daffodil Delight combo would work perfectly.

The completed gift box measures 7.5cm (or 2 15/16”) wide, 7.5cm (or 2 15/16”) deep and 11.5cm (or 4 1/8”) high (not including the handles) which makes for plenty of room for the Nutrimetics gift we’ve packed inside.

I’ve used the Brights Pattern Stack DSP in Melon Mambo & Daffodil Delight for layering. The Happy Birthday is from the Punch Bunch Sale-A-Bration set. My daughters friend also likes butterflies so I’ve used the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die for some embellishments and topped it off with some retired Melon Mambo Polka Dot ribbon.

I sat down to make the card this morning and decided to use this weeks Cards & Things Sketch Challenge #64 as my layout for the card.

Here’s the layout provided.

Keeping with the colour scheme, stamp set & embellishments used on the Gift box this is what I created.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Punch Bunch SAB set, Occassional Quotes
Card: Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Brights Pattern Stack
Ink: Tempting Turquoise
Accessories: Scallop Square Punch, Wide Oval Punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, Big Shot, Retired items – Melon Mambo Polka Dot ribbon, Rectangle hand-held punch.

I think this turned out to be a great gift set.

Till next time…..

“B” is for ……

Boys

Birthday

or maybe

Both……

Over on Krista Driessen’s Cards & Things Challenge Blog this week is a Colour Challenge.

This is the colours Krista provided.

These colours made me think ‘Boys’ and then while deciding on a stamp set I came across ‘Party Hearty’ and thought ‘Birthday’.

Considering it was only a week or so ago I was saying I struggle with ‘Male’ cards I think I’m starting to ‘not struggle’ any more…..lol

I’ve used a sketch from Card Positioning Systems and it’s #180.

Here’s what I came up with.

What do you think??

All layers of the main image (the centre piece too) is all mounted with Stampin’ Dimensionals to give it a bit of a lift.

Very simple but I think very effective.

Supplies:
Stamps: Party Hearty
Card: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Old Olive Patterns DSP (Brights Patterns Stack)
Ink: Old Olive & Pacific Point Markers
Accessories: 3/4” Circle Punch.

Till next time……

To A Classic

I’m back with some more ‘male’ cards.

When I saw the Sketch for Utah Divas International this week (January 22nd), I knew exactly which set I was going to play with. Another new set for me from the Idea Book & Catalogue 2010|2011 called ‘To A Classic’.

Here’s the Sketch.

I’ve actually created 2 cards, same layout, stamp set and colours, just in a different order. Colours have come from the Colour Coach, of course…..

This is my first card.

This one has some Patterns DSP which I like but I also thought, after making this one, that it would be a nice quick card suitable for a Stamp-A-Stack but using that DSP would make it an expensive card.

So along comes my 2nd card.

Colours are swapped around and in place of the Patterns DSP I’ve used a background stamp.

I’m still undecided if I prefer one over the other.

Do you have a preference??

Supplies:
Stamps: To A Classic, Sanded Background
Card: Not Quite Navy, Sahara Sand, Poppy Parade, Whisper White
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Poppy Parade
Accessories: Blender Pen

Till next time….

Birthday Brights

I would have to say one of my favourite Stampin’ Up! tools to use these days is the wonderful Colour Coach. It’s so much nicer and easier to use than the previous version. It’s definitely something I recommend everyone should own.

I’ve used another Sketch Challenge for this card and this time it’s the Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge 187.

This is the sketch.

And this is my card.

I’ve been making myself use some new/unused/hardly inked stamp sets of late with my creations. I’m on a mission this year to not own any stamp sets that haven’t seen ink when they retire. If I manage to do this you’ll see lots of variety around here…..lol

This set is one of the Level One Hostess sets called ‘Birthday Bakery’. You can earn this set for FREE by hosting a workshop with sales of $300 or more, or by placing an order of $300 or more. Remember that with Sale-A-bration on now too, not only for a $300 order can you receive this Hostess set for FREE (along with $30 FREE Merchandise) but you are also entitled to 3 of the Sale-A-Bration sets for FREE. If you’d like to book a workshop with me or place an order contact me by email or phone (H: 02 9620 9092 or M: 0418 218 467) and I’d be happy to assist you.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Occasional Greetings, Birthday Bakery (Hostess Set)
Card: Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, Watercolour Paper, Melon Mambo Patterns DSP (Brights Patterns Stack)
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo
Accessories: Daffodil Delight 1/4” Grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Edge Punch, Blender Pen.

Till next time…..

Seaworthy

This is the last of my ‘male’ cards that I have created over the past week. For this one I’ve used another Clean & Simple Sketch and that is #79.

The colour selection is from, none other than, the Colour Coach.

Supplies:
Stamps: Seaworthy, On Your Birthday, Sanded
Card: Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Whisper White
Ink, Marina Mist, Night of Navy
Accessories: 1 1/4” Square Punch

Till next time…