Extreme Guitar Birthday Gift Ensemble

Happy Birthday to me!  Happy Birthday to Me!  Yes, today is my birthday and Larry is taking me back to Orlando to visit Epcot!  Disney offers free admission to all their parks on your birthday!  Yahoo!

Not only is it my birthday, but it is also Holly's boyfriend's birthday AND his twin sister's!  What an awesome day! He is great guy and I wanted to do a little something for him so Larry and I got him an Itune gift card and I made a gift card holder and matching bag and card.

I cased the design from Dawn Olchefske.  She has a great video on her site here showing how to do the bouncing brayer technique.  It is easy and looks fabulous!

Gift Card Holder

Gift Bag and matching tissue Paper

Birthday Card

I used the following Stampin' Up! products:

• Stamps:  Extreme Guitar (115328), Extreme Elements (115181)
• Paper:  Basic Black, Pacific Point
• Ink:  Versamark, Basic Black
• Accessories:  Brayer, Heat Tool, Black Stampin' Emboss Powder, Star XL Punch, Basic Black Brads, Basic Rhinestones, Stampin' Dimensionals, Snail Adhesive

The first Brayer I grabbed was not a Stampin' Up! product.  Notice the difference on the Gift Card (using the older brayer) vs. the other images stamped with our product!  What a difference!  It is no wonder I love Stampin' Up! so much!

Have a great day!

Jane





Hi Stampers!

I have been working all week on my swaps for the Stampin' Up! Regional next week in Orlando.  This is one of the six cards I will be bringing.  I am making 20 of each card to trade so I will have lots of samples to show you when I get back. 
The measurements and layers are as follows:

*Chocolate Chip CS - cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

*Crumb Cake CS - cut at  4" x 5 1/4" and stamped with the En Francais backgound stamp in Chocolate Chip Classic Ink
*Chocolate Chip CS - cut at 3 1/4" x 4 1/2"

*Chocolate Chip CS - cut at 3/4" x 4 1/2" and punched with the Pinking Heart Border Punch.  I attached this to the right hand side of the previous layer.

*Regal Rose CS - cut  at 3" x 4 1/4"

*Very Vanilla CS - cut at  2 3/4" x 4" and stamped with the En Francais background stamp in Regal Rose Classic Ink

*The heart is from the Crosses of Hope Stamp set and was stamped in Chocolate Chip Classic Ink on Very Vanilla CS.  It was then cut out leaving a small border around the edge and sponged with Regal Rose Classic Ink.  

*Next, I applied Versamark Ink to the cross and covered it with Clear Embossing Powder.  Using a pair of tweezers to hold the image in place, I applied heat with the Embossing Tool.  The cross is embellished with a Basic Pearl and the smallest butterfly from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die using Daffodil Delight CS and Dazzling Diamonds.

*The banner is a piece of Very Vanilla CS cut at 5/8" x 4 1/4" and stamped with the Crosses of Hope Stamp set in Chocolate Chip Classic Ink.  I scored a line 1" from each end and again  1/4" from that score line and folded to get the banner look.  I bent the ends together and cut at an angle to get the fishtail look.

The second Chocolate Chip CS Layer and the cross is raised with a few Stampin' Dimensionals and everything else was attached with Snail Adhesive except the yellow butterfly which I attached with Tombo Multipurpose Liquid Glue.

I have been asked more than once how I got the embossed look on the cross so I will post a video tomorrow to show you how easily it is done.

Thanks for stopping by!
Jane

Make Your Own Background Paper

Hi Friends!

I got the idea for this card from Dawn Griffith, but unfortunately, I didn't have any polka dot background paper so I decided to make my own!

Can you guess what I used?  If you said a pencil, you would be right!  I tapped the eraser end of a pencil onto a Classic Ink Pad and then stamped it right on to my background paper.  Give it a try...it works like a charm!

Happy Stamping,
Jane

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