Love You Much

Hi Stampers!

I am so glad to be home, stamping, and posting to my blog after spending a couple weeks at an out of state children's hospital while my daughter received treatment for juvenile arthritis. Thank you to all my loyal stampin' friends for your thoughts, prayers, and support. Every kind wish has helped on my daughter's road to recovery. I am so grateful!

You will see that I am making up for lost time! Over the next few days I will be posting all of my latest creations, and will keep busy stamping and sharing. I am working on something really special, and will post when it's ready.

My first card is one I designed for a team meeting for demonstrators in my Stampin' Up family. Attending demo meetings is one of my favorite things to do, since I get to be the guest! Here are the details:

Stamp Set: Love You Much

Cardstock: Very Vanilla (scrap for Large Oval); Chocolate Chip (5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored at 4 1/4" to form card base); Candy Lane Designer Series Paper (5 1/2" x 1 1/2" and 5 1/2" x 1"); Riding Hood Red Designer Series Paper (about 4 1/2" square and run through the Big Shot using Scallop Circle Bigz Die, then cut into quarters)

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Craft White

Accessories: Heart to Heart Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Pretty in Pink 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon (7"), Stampin' Dimensionals, SNAIL adhesive

You can probably figure out how to assemble the layers by looking at the photo above, but here are some tips just in case:

1. Stamp the "friend to friend" greeting using Craft White ink on the Chocolate Chip card base.

2. All of our Designer Series Papers (DSP) are double sided, which makes it so easy to coordinate colors! I layered the multi-colored stripe onto the Chocolate Chip card base, and then the flowered Close to Cocoa strip just overlapping the stripe.

3. Next I wrapped the Pretty in Pink Grosgrain Ribbon over the Cocoa DSP strip.

4. The adorable birdies were stamped using Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla cardstock, and then punched out with the Large Oval. Pink Pirouette ink was used to add some color, and I used the Heart to Heart Punch on a tiny scrap of Riding Hood Red DSP for the tiny heart between the birds. The oval was popped up over the cocoa strip and ribbon using Stampin' Dimensionals.

5. After running the Riding Hood Red DSP through my Big Shot with the Scallop Circle Die, I cut it into quarters and adhered one quarter to the card base. You will have three quarters left, so go make more cards!

More tomorrow! Until then, happy stamping!