Good Friend!

Hi there stampers!

Today's card is so cute! I love this birdie!


I started out with a Bashful Blue cardbase, stamped it with the Polka Dot background stamp in the same color and then added some of the dandelion looking image from the Good Friend stamp set also in Bashful Blue. I stamped my bird in Brocade Blue and his beak and feet in Only Orange and added a googlie eye for the fun of it! I notched out the corners with the Ticket Corner Punch and matted it on a piece of Ballet Blue. I stamped the greeting from the same stamp set in Brocade Blue and matted it also on Ballet Blue after adding some Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon around it. The final touch are those super cute and easy little Metal Stickers from Joann's.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my card for today! Have a great day and hope to see you again tomorrow!
Hugs,
Elizabeth

A New Challenge

Good Morning Stampers! Happy Good Friday to you!



As I was doing my typical hour long blog surf the other day I happened upon a fun blog that I have since favorited. Kerin Sylvester does weekly sketch challenges at her blog Stamps, Paper, Glitter and I thought this week I'd play along using the colors from Kristina Werner's Color Challenge for this week.

When I saw Pacific Point as one of the colors in Kristina's challenge for the week I knew I wanted to use the bird from Good Friend and the coordinating paper from the Good Morning Sunshine DSP. Those little birds are just too cute!

I started out with my fairly typical WW card base, added my strips of Good Morning Sunshine DSP and my Basic Black cardstock with little strips of Kiwi Kiss. I then stamped the bird image in Pacific Point and Rose Red and stamped the beak and tail again on a scrap so I could add Dimensionals to them and popped them up for interest. I managed to stamp these without my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line my images up perfectly, but it would have been a good time to use it-I was lucky! I matted my main panel in Basic Black and added some Sizzix Sizzlits Little Leaves in Kiwi Kiss to make it look like my bird was in a tree. The final touch was my sentiment from the Only Ovals set layered on a Rose Red Scallop Oval both from the Occasions Mini Catalog.

Don't forget about Stampin' Up's current Get Connected Promotion! For the month of April when you purchase $40 in product from the Occasions Mini Catalog or $150 from either the Occasions Mini or the big Idea Book and Catalog (or hostess a workshop for that amount)you get to choose anything from the "Under $10" section of the Idea Book and Catalog for FREE!! (It's on page 208) Who can pass up FREE STAMPS?!?!

Ingredients:
Stamps: Oval All, Good Friend Paper: WW, Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red, Good Morning Sunshine DSP Ink: Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red, Pacific Point Accessories: Sizzix Sizzlits Little Leaves, Scallop Oval Punch, Dimensionals, Googlie Eye

Have a fantastic Friday and I'll see you tomorrow.
Hugs,
Elizabeth

Sweet Sunday Sketch

Hi again Stampers! Today I am posting a card I made for Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch that uses a brand new set called Good Friend. The bird is so cute and the coordinating Good Morning Sunshine DSP is adorable.
I thought that the separate legs and beak on the bird would be a pain to position but I stamped it right where I wanted the first time with no fuss at all!

This is definitely a stamp set you'll want to add to your collection!
Ingredients:
Stamps: A Good Friend, Love You Much (sentiment)Paper: Pacific Point, Good Morning Sunshine DSP, Kiwi Kiss, WW Ink: Basic Black, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Summer Sun Accessories: Dimensionals, scissors
Thanks for stopping by and have a great Super Bowl Sunday!
Hugs,
Elizabeth