I had some fun yesterday playing with my order which has just arrived. The intention was to put together my packets for customers who shopped with me last month (thank you!) and get them in the mail. Unfortunately I’d taken part of it to work to show a friend and left them there. Since unusually I have to go to work today, I’ll be able to pick them up and can hopefully get them in the mail tomorrow. But for today, I’m sharing a card I made with one of the Celebrations Duo TIEFs, the Celebrate one.

I decided that since I was making a birthday card with the word celebrate, it should have balloons to make the word pop – these are from Balloon Celebration. There’s a bit of a trick to this – if you’re using photopolymer stamps, you MUST use a stampin’ pierce mat or something that has some give. Otherwise you fill in the debossed part of the word. I know this, I did many attempts – I’m blaming the fact that work is currently hard (hence going to the office today) and I was tired. But you do have to be extra careful not to wobble or the edge of your stamp ends up in the word. I used delightful dijon, dapper denim and then for some glitz, silver embossing. I got most of the colour combination from the Global Design Project.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project with the Celebrations Duo TIEFs. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz