Happy Birthday card, Just Add Ink #374

Won't be long now until the new Holiday catalog will be live!  I know you will love it, have you seen all the sneak peeks?   But for today I have a set from the annual catalog. It's a host set called Background Bits and I fell in love with it my first order. But I really haven't used it much.

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What I took away was a lot of browns and white.  So, I used Kraft paper and StazOn white ink.  SU has white ink as well, however, it's a pigment ink, and works well for embossing, and can be used by itself if you want a more muted white, but I wanted  a darker white, but not embossed necessarily. Although  that would work just fine for this.

The sentiment shape is a new punch and and sentiment is in the matching stamp set.  To get the white shape to match I cut 2 out of white and layered them under my kraft one.  I piece of burlap ribbon finished it off.

Background Bits Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$13.00

Label Me Pretty Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$17.00

Pretty Label Punch

$18.00

Label Me Pretty Clear-Mount Bundle

$31.50

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

$7.00

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Happy Birthday, CFC challenge #164

This is the first time for this challenge for me. I was in the mood for a challenge today and went to hunt one up.
I have 2 girls with birthdays on the same day 4 yrs apart, they both LOVE purple, so purple it is. Rich Razzleberry for this one.

I have not used the set before, I think I got it just as the Holiday catalog was coming out and after that it was holiday all the way.   It's a fun bundle. For this card, I didn't use the die set, but I do love how the some dies match stamp set and you actually get extra die pieces that are totally different.  It gives you so many ways to use the set.  and this set, Falling Flowers, is just like that.

I'm trying out the new watercolor pencils here, there is a set of 13 pencils in this set of SU colors.
I did a scribble with the pencil before embossing the Happy Birthday, then afterward I ran over the color a bit with an Aqua Brush. 
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Tin Of Cards Photopolymer Stamp Set

$17.00

Falling Flowers Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Falling Flowers Clear-Mount Bundle

$45.75

Watercolor Pencils

$16.00

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Stampin Up, Happy Birthday Pansies

One of my very favorite new products this year, has been the Flower Shop bundle, there are just so many ways to use them, and with several pansy designs, you have so many choices.

This card was one I made for a good friend and down line, Velda.   Colors are Marina Mist and Crisp Cantaloupe, along with a bit of Midnight Muse and Garden Green.

For the edge piece I used Finishing Touches Edgelits.  Itty Bitty Banners stamps and Bitty Banner die cuts.
The 2nd layer is using the Chevron embossing folder.

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finish off the sentiment

Chevron Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.95

Finishing Touches Edgelits Dies

$9.95

Bitty Banners Framelits Die

$14.95

Itty Bitty Banners Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$11.95

Flower Shop Clear Bundle

$28.75

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