Orange, Quack.

This is just too cute! I wanted to find the right balance of whimsical, playful, and masculine in a baby boy arrival card.  Then the orange jumped at me, and I love how it paired with slate and the turquoise.

This is a 5x7 white cardstock base with decorative turquoise and ivory paper.  The orange banner is actually a decorative paper as well - it has some distressing that gives great dimension.  The slate circle is actually shimmery silver, and the stamped message is adhered to a blue vellum.  Interesting note - the blue velum is fairly basic - but when set beside the turquoise color - it appears more turquoise.  I love it.  The stamped message is done in SU Pumpkin Pie.  The adorable duck is stamped in SU Tempting Turquoise (and mounted on SU tempting turquoise cardstock).  I then colored in the duck with SU pens (turquoise and pumpkin).  These stamps are not SU - just some acrylic ones that I have lying around.  On the dimensional adhesives - I used a 'taller' one for the duck and a thinner (yet still dimensional) 3M product for the message.  I like the effect.

I'll definitely be using this layout in the future!

Hexagons in Coral

Can I just say that I love this card?  It is a completely fresh take on a wedding card and it was a stroke of genius on my part.  Ha ha ha - no modesty here!  Ok, so this is SU Calypso Coral cardstock, with the hexagons on a shimmery gold cardstock that I found at Office Depot (true story).  The ink is SU Basic Black.  The hexagon stamps are the Six Sided Sampler set from SU with matching punch.  The Best. Day. Ever. stamp is from the Sale-a-bration set earlier this year (called Best Day Ever).  I used a lot of repositionable scotch tape to align the hexagons and relied heavily on my Stamp-a-ma-jig.

thanks - SU card

I really love how this card turned out.  All materials used are Stampin Up unless otherwise indicated. 

Base is Primrose Petals, the green/white is some cool DSP with a brayered-applied Old Olive ink. The three-step stamp is from the Lotus Blossom Stamp Set.  This is an amazing photo polymer set offered during the 2015 Sale-a-Bration!  I got this effect by using two colors - Primrose Petals and Raspberry Ripple.  I got the three color look by doing the Raspberry Ripple first, Primrose Petals second, and stamping off Primrose for a lighter final layer. The stem is Old Olive. I then used the Decorative Label punch and some twine from an American Crafts set.  The "thanks" stamp in Basic Black from some average acrylic stamp set I grabbed on sale at Michaels.  On the envelope, the "shine" is from that same average set - maybe Hampton?  I can't remember.  It, along with the long stemmed nondescript flower, are in Primrose.  The two stamp punches are Fiskars - the green paper is Gumball Green [which was stupid I should have used Old Olive!]

Hoppy Birthday - Bunny Card

Love this card!  This is an old stamp set that I bought used from an SU demonstrator.  The only stamp not part of the set is the sun in the corner, which is from a newer SU stamp set.  The paper and ink are both 2012-2014 SU in-colors (Primrose Pink and Gumball Green). This is 5x7. Random spots are colored with watercolor color pencils.