Birthday Girl

My baby girl's birthday was two weeks ago. And by baby, I mean she's the baby of the family, but by no means a baby. (You know you're getting old when your kids are approaching middle-age. Yeesh!) So we celebrated her birthday and her dad's birthday last Saturday on his birthday. Tacos were on the menu along with lots of margaritas. Needless to say, a fun time was had by all!

This is the card I made for her. She hasn't outgrown liking glitter (just like her mom!), so naturally there had to be some glimmer paper on the card. And for extra shimmer, I colored the blossoms with Clear Wink of Stella.

STAMPS: Birthday Blooms, Sky is the Limit
CARDSTOCK: Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Kraft Corrugated, Whisper White, Neutrals DSP Stack, Gold Glimmer Paper
INK: Basic Black Archival plus Stampin' Write Markers Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, & Wild Wasabi
ACCESSORIES: Gold 5/8" Satin Ribbon, Gold 1/8" Ribbon, White Gel Pen, Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush, Gold Wink of Stella Glitter Brush

Sale-A-Brating, Freak Style!

Hello, and welcome to another episode of "Things I Can't Live Without from Sale-A-Bration" also known as the Tour de Freaks blog hop! And, in case you haven't figured it out already, the theme this month is Sale-A-Bration. We are focusing on the wonderful FREE items you can get (with qualifying purchase) and Stampin' Up! has completely outdone themselves with this year's offerings! If you started the tour at the beginning, you just landed here from Wendy's blog, Wickedly Wonderful Creations, where I'm sure she dazzled you! I am stop number two (of sixteen) this month. Just click the links at the bottom of each blog to travel on to the next one and eventually you'll come full-circle.

There were three new items added this week to kick off the second half of SAB and I'm showing two of them, along with some other SAB items. So, without further ado, let me introduce the Party Pants stamp set and the AWESOME Metallics Glitter Tape! The tape is available in gold, silver, and WHITE....which can be colored any color you want with ink and sponge daubers! And that's what I did to make the blue banners on the card below. The background paper is from the Wildflower Fields DSP pack, also a Sale-A-Bration item.

Up next is the adorable chick from Honeycomb Happiness, with the greeting from Party Pants. In fact, all the cards today used greetings from that set! This one just cracks me up for some reason, like the bird is saying, "Put your party pants on, and let's GO!" The dotty background is from Wildflower Fields again, and the silver is the Metallics Glitter Tape. (That stuff is sooo easy to use!)

It's so hard for me to choose a favorite stamp set from SAB, but if I had to pick just one, I'd say it would probably be the very versatile Flowering Fields. You can create so many different looks with it! The background on this card was created with marker scribbles on a clear block, which was lightly misted and then stamped on watercolor paper.

Lastly, is a CAS card using the What I Love set. It's a three-step photopolymer stamp set, and makes the lovliest flowers with depth and dimension! And, of course, I couldn't resist the glitter tape. Can't help it; I'm part Magpie!

That's all for me this month. I hope you saw something that made one of these SAB rewards a "must have" item on your list! Now hop on over to Barb Mullikin's blog, Barb Stamps, and see what goodies she's cooked up for you!

Con te Partirò (Time to Say Goodbye)

Today is the last day you can get the first set of three 'limited time only' Sale-A-Bration items. These are on pages 16-19 of the flyer. The lucious Perfectly Artistic DSP, used on both of these cards, as well as the Hello stamp set and the Sky is the Limit stamp set won't be available after today!

I whipped up these cards in a jiffy to show how easy these products are to use. And by jiffy, I mean total time from design to implementation for BOTH cards was under an hour. That's got to be some kind of record for me, lol. Some cards take me days to get right. (Seriously, you don't want to see my waste basket!)

While I was working on the Hello card, I had Adele in my head. "Hello from the other siiiide." So, I tried to think of something else, and Lionel Ritchie popped in, instead. "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" Aack! Then Neil Diamond took his place. "Hello again, hello." And THEN Pink Floyd stopped by for a visit! "Hello, is there anybody in there?" Aparently not, because I have room for all YOU people!

STAMPS: Sky is the Limit, Hello, Grateful Bunch
CARDSTOCK: Whisper White, Basic Black, Blackberry Bliss, Perfectly Artistic DSP, Vellum
INK: Basic Black Archival, Blackberry Bliss, Rose Red
ACCESSORIES: Blossom Bunch Punch, Silver Mini Brads, It's My Party Enamel Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals, Metallics Glitter Tape (new SAB item starts tomorrow)