Super Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. As challenge hostess for the month I continue to issue the challenges.

Being the third Saturday of the month, it's time for a sketch challenge. This time around I created a Slimline sketch.

For my card today I decided to go with a super heroes theme, so I chose the colors red, blue and yellow.

I used Whimsy Stamps Slimline Stars Background die for the background of my card and yellowed glittered stars. The stars are the wide strip that is shown in the sketch, I didn't have yellow glitter cardstock, so I used white cardstock and then blended on yellow inks over the glitter cardstock.

I used Hero Arts Infinity Nesting Squares to create each of the three diamonds. The super hero dogs are from MFT Stamps Super Dogs stamp set.

The sentiment in the middle diamond is from a Sunny Studio Stamps Super Hero stamp set. 

For the inside of the card, I created a pop-up card. I created another star background using the Whimsy Stamps Background die I used on the front of the card. 

I created the cityscape pop up using Kat Scrappiness' Slimline Layered Cityscape die set, which I popped up using a simple box pop-up in several places along the fold of the card. This allowed for the different heights of the cityscape die cut.

I then added two more Super dogs to my background scene.

The blue panel on the base of the card was die cut using Picket Fence Studios Slimline Nested Rectangles die set.

I added the "Birthday Wishes" which is from Mama Elephant's Big Birthday Wishes die set, I then added a few red stars around the sentiment.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Nicky Foden

Lois Bak

Super Heroes Comic Slimline

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.  As challenge hostess for the month, I finish off the month with one last challenge.

Super Heroes - Yesterday 28th April was Superhero Day. Include a superhero or two on your card this week. (Interpret Superhero any way you like.

Having a daughter who has always been interested in Super Heroes, I seem to have collected super hero stamps and dies over the years. My latest addition to my collection is Mama Elephants Little Superhero Agenda stamp set, so I decided to use that to create my card today.

Mama Elephant also recently released a Slim Comic Strip die set, which includes the comic strip frame and the speech bubbles that have the different words. So I created a Slimline card using this stamp set. 

I few years ago I purchased Sunny Studio Stamps Heroic Halftones paper pad which works perfectly with the die set and images.

I added the cityscape die from Mama Elephant's Slim Film City die set.

For the inside of the card I created a pop-up card. I used another piece of the paper that I used on the front of the card, which I added to the back panel and about an inch to the edge of the bottom edge of the card.

I used the cityscape die again to add to the back panel.

To create the pop-up portion of the card I used the smaller of the angled platforms to add the 4 little pop ups along the fold of the card. I then added the cute little superheroes.

I added the birthday sentiment to the base of the card using two sentiments from Penny Black's Wet & Wild stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Kelly McKown-Santi

Manila Habib

Super Duper Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Being a brand new month it's time to introduce a new challenge hostess, which is ME!

According to the Days of the Year web site, today is Free Comic Book  Day. For our challenge today being inspired by a Comic Book  … maybe create a comic book layout with any theme or create something that might be included in a comic book eg … super heroes.

I know Super Hero Comic Books are fairly popular, so I decided to go with a Super Hero theme for my card today.

I used Taylored Expressions Color Block Cutting Plate for the base of my card and then used papers from Sunny Studio Stamps Heroic Halftones Paper Pad to include each of the blocks inside the Color Block Frame. 

I used an older MFT Stamps Skyline Border to add along the edge of two of the colored blocks in the frame. I have newer versions of this die, but this one seemed to suit the size of the blocks a lot better.

To decorate my card I used Sunny Studio Stamps Super Duper stamp set.

For the inside of my card I created a pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Paper Frames Pop-up die set. 

I added the patterned paper I used on the front of my card on either side of the inside of the card cutting it down to create a block pattern similar to the front of the card.

I added a few more of the stamps and dies that I used on the front to decorate the card.

For the sentiment I used a few of the words included in the Sunny Studio Stamps Super Duper stamp set. I also added the "Super" die cut which is a die from Heffy Doodle Stamps.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Karen Ostergard

Kathleen Adams

Maryann Einam

Rebecca Ednie

Nicky Foden

Tracey Farr

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Solid Skyline Border Die-namics - MFT Stamps (retired)
Skyline Border Die-namics - MFT Stamps (retired)

Super Duper Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing another Surprise Ball Pop-up Card that I made for my daughter's birthday at the end of October. My daughter loves super heroes, so I just had to make a Super Hero Surprise Ball Pop-up for her.

If you don't already know the Surprise Ball Pop-up and the Flap and Closure die sets are both new dies released by Karen Burniston (KB Riley LLC) yesterday.

Here is a quick video to see my card in action. One thing I have learnt while making these that the thicker your cardstock, the more pop you will achieve when the card pops up. My black cardstock is a little less weighty than my colored and white cardstocks, so the bounce isn't as pronounced as my others ... but it still does have the surprise bounce when you open it.

To decorate the ball, I used stamps from Sunny Studios stamps, one or two of the sentiments on the ball are from a MFT Stamps stamp set.

Along the edge of the card just above the flap, I added a City Scape die.

Here is an over head view of my card, so you can see the whole card. I used a die from Frantic Stampers for the birthday sentiment on the top portion of the card.

Here is a closeup shot of the ball, as you can see I alternated an image and a sentiment around the ball.

I kept the front of the card simple as the action is all on the inside. I added another of the super heroes and added a sentiment, using the Heffy Doodles "Super" die.

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Super Duper Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Super Hero themed birthday card I created recently.

While looking through my die stash recently, I discovered Taylored Expressions Square Block Cutting Plate that I had apparently purchased a few years back and somehow forgotten about and hadn't used. Of course I pulled it out so I could make a card using it in the future.

Looking through some of my stamps to see what I could use with the die I found these fun Super Hero stamps from Sunny Studio Stamps I purchased a few months back. I also purchased their Heroic Halftones Paper Pad recently, so pulled that out to use for the panels  of the frame.

I like how that smaller rectangle on the right hand side is the perfect size for a sentiment. 

For the inside of my card I created a pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Katherine Label Pop-up die set. 

I continued the comic theme that I used on the front of the card on the inside. I cut rectangles of black cardstock and rounded the corners and then cut out the patterned papers and rounded the end corners and adhered this to each side of the card.

I decorated these panels using a City Block Border and more of the stamps from the Sunny Studio Stamps et. I also added a few more sentiments from the shapes which are from an MFT Stamps stamp set.

For the sentiment on the pop-up panel I used a die from Heffy Doodle Stamps and the rest is from the Sunny Studio Stamps stamp set.

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. For the benefit of my Australia readers, I have started to include some links to Australian stores when available. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Square Block Cutting Plate - Taylored Expressions (retired)

City Block Border - MFT Stamps (retired)

Have A Super Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

A couple of months ago I purchased the MFT Stamps Interactive Swing die. I have already made a swing card using this die, but since then I have seen a number of seesaw cards using this die. I love when you can get more from a die set then what the die was designed for. Of course these looked liked lots of fun so I have to create my version.

I used Clearly Besotted's Super Pug Clear Stamp set to create my card today ... these were ones I had to add to my collection a while back. My youngest daughter loves pugs and forever she has wanted a pug of her own, well she finally got her wish a few months ago and it has quite a personality ... I can see her getting up to mischief like these cute pugs on this card. 

Here is a gif image which shows the card in action. I love how the seesaw actually moves up and down as you tilt the card.

I used Distress Oxide inks to create the background sky. 

I added the trees from Lawn Fawn's Shadow Box Park Add-on. The grass is from Karen Burniston's Nature Edges die set and I added some flowers to the lower grass section using dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs Adventure Edges 2 die set.

For the sentiment I used Heffy Doodle's "Super" die and then added the two sentiments above and below this using sentiments from Lawn Fawn's Reveal Wheel Sentiments and Reveal Wheel Christmas Sentiments.

For the inside of the card I added some more grass and flowers and one of the pugs and then added the sentiment which is  from MFT Stamps Super Dog stamp set.

Supplies:

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Zap, Boom Super Cats

Hi Crafty Friends,

I have a birthday card to share with you today.

To create my card I started by die cutting the Paper Rose Studio's Brick Wall Border into the front of a White Side Folding Card. I then sponged on some Gina K Designs Faded Brick ink onto another piece of white cardstock and adhered this to the inside of the card so it shows through the brick border.

Along the bottom of the card I added some grass using Lawn Fawn's Grassy Hillside Border die set.

To decorate my card I used MFT Stamps Super Cat Clear Stamp set.

For the inside of my card I added two sentiments which have been stamped onto aqua cardstock and then die cut using Honey Bee Stamp's Banner Builder die set. The sentiments are both from MFT Stamps Super Dog stamp set. I also added one of the super cats to the top right hand corner of the card.

Supplies:

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Have A Super Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing a Magic Picture Changer Card I created with the new Lawn Fawn Magic Picture Changer and Magic Picture Changer Add On die sets. This is actually the third card I have made since the weekend using this die set, but as the other two cards are for challenges which won't be on my blog until the end of March I had to make another one. I think this might be favorite of the three so far.

For my card today I decided to pull out my MFT Stamps Super Dog Clear Stamp set to create a Super Hero themed card. 

Here is a quick video to see my card in action.

Here you can see the card as the image on the front starts to change to reveal the image which is underneath.

To create the background behind the Super Dogs, I sponged the cardstock with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink and then used one of the stencils from the Honey Bee Stamps Ocean Builder Stencil set  to create the radiating rays.

Along the bottom of the card I added the City Block Die-namics.

The birthday sentiment on the top of the card is from the Clearly Besotted Stamps Super Pug stamp set, stamped onto a speech bubble.

For the inside of the card I added the rays background using Distress Oxide inks and then added the City Block Die-namics along the bottom of the card. 

I added one more of the Super Dogs and a sentiment to my card.

Supplies:

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Party With Amy Locurto Boy 6 x 6 Paper Pad - Pebbles Inc

Bam! Zap! Pow! Super Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Being a brand new month it is  time to introduce our new challenge hostess which is Amy Ottmers.

Apparently today is "Free Comic Book Day", so our challenge this week is to make a "Super Hero" card/project.

My youngest daughter has been very into Super Heroes for years and I remember her going to the city on this day each year to visit the comic shops there to get free comic books. 

I have a number of "Super Hero" stamps/dies to select from and decided to use these cuties from C.C. Stamps ... I couldn't decide whether to use the boy or the girl ... so as you can see I used both! 

To create my card I started by die cutting the Cupcake Pop-up into a white card. Now when Karen Burniston released this die set last year I never thought I would use this as a generic pop-up die but I seem to reach for it all the time. It is perfect to have things pop up with a little height and each to disguise the cupcake. The two super heroes fit perfectly on the cupcake pop-up.

I used the galaxy sky technique for my background of my card using various colors of Distress Oxides. I then spritz the background with water from a Distress Sprayer and splattered watered down Copic Opaque White all over the background.

On the rectangle pop-up panel below the cupcake I added the City Skyline using black and gold cardstock.

The yellow & black "Bam! Zap! & Pow! die cuts are a set from Frantic Stamper. 

To finish off the inside of the card I added a birthday sentiment which I added using the label dies from Karen's Katherine Label Pop-up.

As the focus of this card is on the inside, I kept the front fairly simple. I repeated the galaxy sky background and then added the Zap! Bam! Pow! die cuts to my card. To fill in the gaps I added the star from Frantic Stampers Heroic Symbols die set to which I added a blue Nuvo drop in the centre of the three full symbols.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Amy Ottmers

Anja de Regt

Joanne Grzelak

Karen Aicken

Kathleen Adams
Maryann Einam
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Ednie

Supplies:

Other:

Stamps: Super Hero Henry; Super Hero Twila - C. C. Designs; Wet & Wild - Penny Black

Dies: Skyline Border; Solid Skyline Border - MFT Stamps; Pow, Zap, Bam; Heroic Symbols - Frantic Stamper

Other: Foam Tape;  Copic Opaque White; Copics