More Scallop Card Fun!

Same little card, this time with Tangerine Tango ~ it's gorgeous! I used my new spool of River Rock (the only colour not sold out) go figure, I love it, kind of taupe coloured. Stamp set Bloomin Beautiful EDIT to SAY! it is in the new catty!!(no longer available) I used the Very Vanilla Craft Ink again. It's still a bit finicky but worth the effort to get it perfect. The little flowers are from the Boho Punch & stamped with the One Of A Kind stamps.

HB! New Colours!! New Punch !

So to begin: I cut a 3 x 8" length of Pink Pirouette , scored at the 4" mark and using a bone folder created my base card.

With the new scallop edged punch I centered one of the 3" ends in the punch. (there are very nice alignment markings along the entire edge) I then moved the punch to the opposite edge and completed the end punch and again for the opposite side. This leaves a perfectly centered, scalloped edge! Using the Riding Hood Red ink I stamped the Happy Birthday greeting ('It's Your Birthday' retiring on August 10) on a small piece of Very Vanilla (beautiful clean results everytime). I then stamped two sets of the 'One Of A Kind' flowers. These were punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch (it fits the flowers perfectly)! Using a sponge dauber I inked the outside edges of the verse after trimming with decorative scissors.

Using snail adhesive the verse was placed off centre and attached to the card. an option would be to use small brads at the four corners to give an additional 'framed' look. Using a round red brad 'Fire Circles' I placed this through the largest flower. I like to hammer the backing to flatten it and I always cushion the brad to protect it and my surface! The flowers adhered to 3d foam and mounted as shown.

for the inside of the card I cut a piece of white linen paper 2 3/4 x 3 1/2" with a torn decorative edge. I stamped the very cute HB as you can see and attached on the inside of the card with snail.

Detail of photo anchor placement

Back view of card with an extra flower to cover the brad from the back of the photo anchor and a stamped HM from the Art by Design collection. This was such a fun project and I initially roughed up the scalloped edge card so that I could mount an ATC to the front.....but it is a great size and the possibilities are endless ~ I'm thinking about tall single flowers, gold embossing, cute Christmas trees.......lol!

My first play with two of the new colours! They are simply gorgeous!

Amazing! the best design

Gayle saw a card here earlier today and this is the design we worked up this evening using a Carousel note, some Whisper white cardstock, DSP (Gayle it means Designer Series Paper, lol!), Blue Bayou and Groovy Guava inks, Very Vanilla Tafetta ribbon, clear diamond brads and dazzling diamond glitter. Oh yeah and Tombow glue & snail adhesive, lol! We used the Fresh Cuts stamp set and a butterfly from the Live Your Dream set.

What to Do With Carousel Notes!

A typo in here: the Vanilla circle should read about 4 1/2" not 4"......have fun!

Another Brilliant Example!

Gayle loves to try new things~ a charming and inspiring card for all of us and she shared her Many Merry Messages stamp set too ~ thank you Gayle!

Christmas In July

A sneak peek for Monday's SU party! Great new embossing examples and fun with the scallop punch!

This card used the following supplies:

Punch Pals 109489

Wonderful Words 103875

Trimtastic (d/c) Aug 10/08 107343

Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon 109061

Always Artichoke Ink 105219

Very Vanilla Craft Ink 104308

Irridescent Ice Embossing Powder 101930

Scallop Circle Punch 109043

3/4" circle punch 107217

Rhinestone Brads Fire 109110

Always Artichoke Stampin' Write 105113

Kraft Cardstock 102125

Purely Pomegranate 108644 (asst. 108637)

Very Vanilla 101650

Christmas in July from Carol S.