It's Party Time!

Yup, that's right ~ Party Time! The TAC™ set. What else did you think I meant?

I was in need of making a card for 2 dear friends for their birthdays. Yes, I've known that their birthdays were coming up ~ I even put the cards my Mom made for them in the mailbox days ago. I've just been busy. Really now!! I had oodles of naked rubber sitting there that needed to be taken care of! Geez, it's not like I was playing around or anything!!

For these cards I used the Party Time set by TAC™. I'm not always up with the fads, and of course I'm a little late with the cupcake one. It seems that all you saw everyday was cards with cute little cupcakes on them. Yes, I needed a cupcake - and that's probably why I bought this set, but now that I have it I don't see the cute little cupcakes anymore. I guess my daughter's right "I'm so not cool". She say's that only because I'm older than her, I'm sure. I hope, I think?


Anyway, I stamped the images from Party Time and colored them in with pencils and gamsol. I punched the images out with my 1 1/4" square punch and sponged around the edges with Pink Passion ink and applied stickles on them to dry. I then punched out 1 3/8" squares in Pixie Pink cs and set aside. The base card is Pink Passion and I layered a piece of light pink textured cs I had with a piece of DP from my Brighten my Day pad. I cut out a rectangle of Pixie Pink and layered a piece of Rose Red that I stamped twist and shout on from the same set, then sponged Pink Passion ink around the edges and glued that down. I then took the Pixie Pink squares and layered the images on to them and attached them to the front.

I still needed something on the lower 1/2 of the card. I took out my Designer Label Punch and my 1 3/8" Circle punch and made the matting for the lower part of the card. I stamped Happy Birthday from a Hero Arts stamp I've had forever in Pink Passion ink. I used my horizontal slot punch to punch out the sides to attach the ribbon to. I took a length of sheer pink polka dots (to somewhat match the DP) and laced it thru the sides and around back of the front panel. I then attached the whole front panel to the card and I was done.

I think that it was more confusing to explain it than it actually was to make the card. And yes, they are in the mail this morning. I'm sure that one of them will be late - but I did not forget...

I'm off to play with my new stamps. I've got them all mounted, indexed and yes - I sat there last night watching TV spending family time while I colored the indexing. I know I've received comments "how long will that last" but really ~ I enjoy it. I just take my pencils in the living room, pull out my lap tray and color while I'm actually spending time with the family. It's no big deal. I love to color and everyone's together so everyone's happy. And I can say that I stamped each and every image and colored them. I know that I can not honestly say that of all my other stamps. Some I need to dust off and cant really remember ever using them...

Well everyone ~ have a wonderful day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

First of all I would like to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope that today brings you all good fortune and many friendships!

I would like to share a little card that I made over the weekend. I pulled out one of my new TAC™ stamp sets out, Party Time. I just love this little set.

When I first started to pick out the colors for this card I thought of something spring like, and I pulled out my new papers from TAC™ too!! I used the orange flower background paper from the Brighten my Day collection.

The main base of the card is Only Orange. I then layered the orange DP next that I sponged with Chocolate Chip ink, used my corner rounder punch on the corners and adhered it to the card. I stamped the little ladybug from the Party Time set and colored it in with pencils. I punched him out with my 1 1/4" circle punch and sponged it with Only Orange ink. I then punched out a piece of Pumpkin Pie cs with my 1 3/8" circle punch, then a piece of Only Orange cs with my Scallop Punch and finally a piece of Chocolate Chip with my Mega Scallop punch. I layered those all together and adhered it to the card front.

I wanted to use my word window punch to punch out the saying but the saying was a little too long. So I stamped the saying on to a piece of white cs and measured how long it was. I then punched out 2 word windows and taped them together to make the length of the saying. I then traced around them and carefully cut them out with my scissors to make the window longer. I know it seems like a little extra work ~ but when the punch does not fit, you improvise :)

I added a couple of eyelets with my Crop-a-dile and threaded some Pumpkin Pie ribbon thru the holes in the eyelets, adhered it to the card and I was finished.

This is a step-by-step instruction on how I made my Word Window Punch a little longer. If it is too hard to read, just click on the picture for a better look :0)

I would also like to thank everyone who participated in my blog candy contest. You all made some great cards, but unfortunately there can only be one winner. The winner was picked thru Random.org and it was Linsey from Outside the Lines with Linsey. Linsey, please e-mail me your snail mail info so I can get your goodies out to you!! Thank you all once again!!

I hope you all have a safe and happy St. Patrick's Day ~ there will be more to come tomorrow!