Having Fun with Circles!

 Hello Everyone!  Here at Creative Impressions we are having fun with circles!  The first card I would like to share with you is a fun birthday card loaded with circles of every size!  The best part of this was using up scraps of cardstock and patterned paper!

I began by punching out and die cutting circles in white cardstock, patterned paper and a background piece I had previously made with shimmer spray ink.  I wish it showed up better in the photo, but sadly it doesn't.

I decided to make a birthday card, so I used Creative Impressions polymer stamp set 590 Cupcake Birthday.

I stamped "Happy Cupcake Day" onto one circle, "Happy Birthday from all of us to You" on the largest white circle and a piece of cake on a smaller one.  I then laid them all out with circle mats to see how I liked the composition.  When I was happy with the composition, I began adhering everything down to a piece of patterned  paper previously adhered to a white card.

I used Creative Impressions' darling Printed Ribbon 80135 Lime with Aqua and wrapped it around the left side of the card.  (Note more cute circles).  The finishing touch was the addition of a small Iridescent Pastel Blue Blossom (61001) with a White Glimmer Round Brad (90907).

That's it!  Wasn't that a fun way to create a birthday card with scraps and cute Creative Impressions stamps!  Now try it yourself!

Have fun!

Susan

Mothers Day Beauty

 Hello Everyone:  Here we are in the middle of April and May is right around the corner along with a Mother's Day Celebration!  Here is a simple card to celebrate all the Moms out there:

To create this card I stamped D164 which is an unmounted stamp in various Distress colors onto a piece of white cardstock.  I then drew in some stems and leaves with a green marker.  I inked the edges of the piece and then matted it with a piece of dark purple cardstock and set it aside.  

A piece of patterned paper was adhered to another dark purple cardstock mat.  I then adhered a piece of our 2" Plum Web 70178 to the left edge of this piece.  Finally I adhered this matted piece to a white card.  A piece of Lavender Thin Twine 70178 was wrapped around this piece.

To finish, I adhered the floral piece to the patterned paper piece.  I stamped S184 "You Make my World a Beautiful Place" onto a piece of scrap white cardstock with Purple ink.  This is an "Innie" and "Outie"stamp.  This is the "Outie" part of the sentiment stamp.  The beautiful aspect of this stamp sentiment is that it doesn't have to be used for Mother's Day as the first part is great for anyone!

I inked the edges and matted it with a dark purple mat.  Using foam dots, this sentiment piece was adhered over the twine towards the bottom left of the card.

To finish, I stamped the "Innie" part of the sentiment onto a piece of scrap white cardstock.  This was matted onto a dark purple piece and adhered to the inside of the card.

Hope this card has inspired you to start making your Mother's Day cards and thank the Moms out there for all they do!

Happy Crafting,

Susan

Baby Boy Blue Card

Hello Everyone!  Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!  Today we would like to feature a beautiful baby boy card.The card fold is called a building block card.  You can find a tutorial for this card on many different sites.

Following the directions for the basic Block Card tutorial, Susan used a piece of blue cardstock for the card base.  A white piece of cardstock was then cut to fit each panel.

Susan used a variety of stamps on this card.  The Booties, Blankets and Lots of Little Toys..." sentiment is from from Polymer Stamp Set No YCC219 Welcome Baby Silhouette.  She stamped the sentiment onto a piece of scrap white cardstock along with three sailboats from Set No. M105 Baby Boy stamped with blue ink.  This piece was edged with blue ink and mounted onto a yellow cardstock mat.  After stamping "Congratulations" from Welcome Baby Silhouette Set onto the white cardstock of the first panel, she then adhered the first set aside sentiment piece.

For the second panel, Susan stamped the sentiment "Welcome to Your New Little Boy" onto a white cardstock panel, inked the edges and matted the panel onto a yellow mat.  Set aside.  Before adhering this panel, she wrapped the white panel on top of the card base with Creative Impressions Ribbon 3/8" Double Stitched Ribbon (70951 Soft Blue with Cream) and adhered this panel to the base.  Then the Sentiment panel was adhered in the center over the ribbon,.

Almost finished! Susan used Creative Impressions Set Number Y515 Floral Upper Alphabet to stamp the letters separately onto 8 small pieces of scrap white cardstock.  The letters should spell 

"B A B Y  L O V E"  The letters are so pretty with the beautiful floral design on them!  Each letter was edged with blue ink and matted with a slightly larger piece of yellow cardstock before being adhered to the blue block base.

For the final panel, Susan stamped the baby onesie from Creative Impressions set No.  YCC219            onto another white cardstock panel over a second piece of blue and cream double stitched ribbon.  She used three of the smallest buttons No. 51011 Vanilla Cream and adhered them to the front of the Onsie.  Again, this panel was edged with blue ink and adhered to a yellow mat.  It's done.  Only four colors were used -Blue, White, Black and Blue.

Hope you like this sweet Little Boy Blue card!  I had better get to work as there are lots of babies on the way in my family!

Susan

Happy Hoppy Easter!

Hello Everyone:  Today is my birthday which usually falls right around Easter!  As a birthday treat, I would like to share the last of a trio of cards brought to you by Chari Hogsett, just in time for Easter!

This easy to make card features stamps from Creative Impressions' Polymer Stamp Set Y202.  Chari brayered a few different colors of ink onto a medium sized tag.  She then stamped the bunny, ducks and Happy Easter from the set.  You can either mount this tag onto a black mat or use a black marker to edge the tag as Chari did.  She adhered two Medium Heart Brads, Pastel 90394, to the tag along with three small flower brads, Soft Flower Assortment 90667.  A Yellow Organdy Bow created with our 1/4" Organdy Ribbon 70632 Yellow was added to the top of the tag.

All that was left to do was adhere the tag with foam tape to a piece of heavy weight patterned paper for the card.  All done!

All of us here at Creative Impressions would like to wish you a Happy Easter and thank you for your business!

All the best

Susan