Circle Circus + Curly Cute

Happy Saturday!  I hope you have great plans for this Spring Saturday.  I have photographed this card twice, and cannot get the colors right.  Sorry.

The colors are Basic Gray, Calypso Coral and Whisper White.  I'll be back at midnight to kick off the Best of Butterflies tour! See ya then.

SHERRI

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Circle Circus, Curly Cute
Ink: Basic Gray
CS: Basic Gray, Calypso Coral and Whisper White
Accessories: Rhinestones, Decorative Label Punch, 1/4" stitched grosgrain ribbon in Basic Gray

Happy Birthday, a masculine version

How about another masculine birthday card?  This color combination:  Chocolate Chip, Island Indigo, Pool Party, River Rock and Whisper White.  River Rock will be retiring June 3rd, 2013, Pool Party will be joining our Subtles Collection and Island Indigo will be joining our Regals Collection! The color refresh is posted at the bottom.

Two retiring stamp sets are on this combo:  Curly Cute and Circle Circus.  Ahhhh!  Curly Cute is one of my go-to greeting sets and I'll be using it again tomorrow.  

Have a great Tuesday!
SHERRI

COLOR REFRESH!  Make sure to stock up on any of the discontinuing colors. 

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Circle Circus, Curly Cute
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Island Indigo, Pool Party, River Rock, Whisper White
CS: Chocolate Chip, Pool Party, River Rock, Whisper White
Accessories: None :)

Circle Circus

Last weekend I had a workshop with new customers and they LOVE to scrapbook, so I pulled some of my favorite scrapbook pages for display. 

 This is a mirrored layout with lots of pieces and parts.  Punches made this E-A-S-Y! 

 Here's a side-by-side. What do you think?  

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Circle Circus
Ink: Pear Pizazz, Poppy Parade, So Saffron
CS: Early Espresso, Pear Pizazz, Poppy Parade, So Saffron
Accessories: Circle and scallop circle punches, brads, dimensionals, Big Shot, polka dot embossing folder

Many Thanks

Literally, many. I needed to get caught up on my thank you notes, so I whipped up a batch of Clean And Simple cards (CAS for short). The greeting is from a retired set, Warm Words, but I love the font and size and I will never give up the set (you can't make me!). I used pieces of Real Red DSP for the large petals. They were quickly cut with the Big Shot and the Flower Folds die! The centers are an image from Circle Circus, punched out with 1-1/4" circle, matted on a 1-3/8" Soft Suede circle which was layered on the DSP flower.

These are simple and quick and I adore them. Not all cards have to be art-masterpieces filled with techniques and layers!

The hostess level 1 DSP pack is perfect for these matching card sets. Look for more of these in the future at Sweetest Designs!
Have a great Friday!
SHERRI

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Circle Circus, Warm Words (retired)
Ink: Real Red
DSP: Real Red Designer Series Pattern Pack
CS: Soft Suede, Whisper White
Accessories: 1-1/4" circle punch, 1-3/8" circle punch, big shot, Flower Folds die

You & Me Friends

A shabby card today that is mostly out of my comfort zone! I started wheeling Friendly Words on Soft Suede with versamark. I layered Soft Suede on a Soft Suede base. I’ve been seeing this a lot recently, and wanted to try. I don’t know how I feel about it yet!
Then I added some paper lace. I used Very Vanilla, trimmed with the eyelet punch, edges sponged in Soft Suede.
The top panel is Perfect Plum. I stamped Friends from Vintage Vogue in versamark. On the left, I made a crinkled flower from the Petals Big Shot die – one in Elegant Eggplant and one in Perfect Plum. The center is circles (1” Soft Suede, ¾” Perfect Plum stamped with Circus Circles in versamark, topped with a clear button, tied with Linen Thread. The stem and leaves are punches from the Large Bird Punch. So cute. I added a half-pearl in the upper right corner from the Pretties Kit. We didn’t have any ribbon that I liked, so I dyed the 3/8” Whisper White taffeta ribbon.

I'm also happy to report this card is IN THE MAIL and heading to a wonderful friend. Will it be you? :)

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Circle Circus, Friendly Words, Vintage Vogue
Ink: Soft Suede, Versamark
CS: Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant, Pale Plum, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Petals Big Shot die, big shot, 1” circle punch, ¾” circle punch, large bird punch, half pearl, 3/8" whisper white taffeta ribbon, perfect plum reinker, eyelet punch, sponge, clear button, sticky strip (for the faux lace)

It's Saturday Sketch Time, SSC105

I hope you're having a great weekend. Are you getting excited for the NEW catalog release?!?!? It was sketch time over at 411. Even if you don't play along with the sketches, stop over. They're a talented group of bloggers that are creating a library of resources and videos. Ok, onto todays card:

I trimmed down the white panel and used the 1/4" scrap on the inside, layered with curry. (see the smaller image on the left).

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Circle Circus, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Black
CS: Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Whisper White
Accessories: 1" Circle punch, dimensionals.