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May Perpetual Birthday Calendar

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A quick and easy CAS thank you for today’s card.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar

I used the May image from the Perpetual Birthday calendar set and the retiring colour Strawberry Slush and stamped it multiple times across the diagonal. The sentiment comes from the retiring set Painted Petals – I’m very sad to see this one go. I won’t be retiring it from my personal stash! The piece of very vanilla is mounted onto a base of strawberry slush. And that’s it!

This would be very easily mass produced if you happened to need a stack of thank you cards. And of course changing the colours would make the stamping more interesting after the first five or so!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Perpetual Birthday Calendar – May

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I’ve been meaning to use the May image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set this month since I have a bit of a streak going. And then the CAS Colour and Sketches showed up with the double challenge. Normally colour challenges and sketch challenges alternate but since there were five Thursdays in April, this week it’s a sketch AND colour challenge. I thought I’d give it a go despite my usual reluctance to try sketch challenges.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar and Sheltering Tree

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I took the May image from the set and coloured the various flowers using my Stampin’ Write markers in calypso coral, wisteria wonder and island indigo. After breathing on the stamp to re-moisten it, I stamped it onto my whisper white cardstock and then repeated it another four times across the diagonal. I then found that I had one little island indigo star sticking out too far so added another on the other side to balance it. As Staples says, that was easy! The sentiment is from Sheltering Tree and is stamped in Island indigo. I mounted this piece onto a layer of island indigo to give a skinny mat and then put this onto a wisteria wonder card base. I really love the wisteria wonder but I don’t use it as much as I thought – I’ll have to work on that!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Watercolour Thank You

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I had previously made a spanish thank you card using the Gracias En Acuarelas stamp set which is equivalent to the Watercolor Thank you set. It occurred to me that the April image from the Stampin’ Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set would make a good background for this. To begin with, I tried making a card with an extra layer but eventually realised that watercolor and layers don’t really make sense. One is fun and not precise and the other is very precise. Don’t you agree?

Stampin' Up! Gracias en acuarelas

The imprecise splodge is the “April” image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set and I stamped it in pool party on very vanilla. I originally tried whisper white but in its stark white-edness, it seemed to have too much precision also. Or maybe I just haven’t had enough sleep. Anyway, I then stamped the gracias image in lost lagoon – I do much prefer lost lagoon on very vanilla instead of whisper white actually. I then mounted this piece on a base of lost lagoon. The envelope is lined in lost lagoon from, yes, you guessed it, the backgrounds DSP from the incolor 2014 pack.

Perpetual Birthday Calendar reused

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I was using the tree image from the Stampin’ Up! Thoughts and Prayers set last month to make a sympathy card – the set has a lot of sympathy and get better type sentiments. I really like the tree image and decided to use it for other cards too. I’ve made a number of cards with it lately in addition to the aforementioned sympathy card –  a thinking of you and another birthday card. It’s amazing what a change in colour can do to the feel of a card.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar, Wetlands, Thoughts & Prayers

This time I decided to use the big April image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar, a splodge for want of a better description. I first stamped it as the sky in pool party on very vanilla and then the ground in pear pizzazz. I stamped the tree image over this in early espresso. Originally I was very against brown on cards, especially birthday cards (I wore brown in primary school; my school uniform colours appear to have had a long lasting effect!) but I am getting rather fond of a touch of early espresso here and there.

I also used early espresso for the sentiment. You don’t recognise where it comes from? It’s from the Wetlands set. I mounted this on a piece of early espresso that is just 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla. I really like the skinny early espresso mat. This went on a pear pizzazz base and the envelope is lined in the pear pizzazz backgrounds DSP. I may have to challenge myself to have a week of card making without using pear pizzazz!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Perpetual Birthday Calendar – August

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I decided that it was time to move on a little with my perpetual birthday calendar project and so here’s August.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar August

I got the colours from a piece of Painted Petals DSP – I’m using blackberry bliss, blushing bride and rose red. I started by stamping the butterflies at the bottome right hand corner of the calendar – the blackberry bliss butterflies were stamped off once so that the colour blended better with the other pinks. I also punched out a few small butterflies out of card and added a couple.

I then turned my attention to the top and carefully marked the centre in pencil and then stamped August in blackberry bliss. After a few minutes I went to erase the pencil mark and smudged the stamping. This is a good example of the oft cited “there are no mistakes in stamping”! I found my elegant butterfly punch (the small ones couldn’t cover the word, thank goodness this wasn’t November!) and fortunately this covered the smudge. This time I decided to stamp the month in rose red. I then added masses of butterflies in the three colours.

See you tomorrow,

Liz