Carolina's Creative Pad

Happy Birthday Charmaine!

Welcome to Charmaine's (aka charmwarm) virtual birthday party hosted by Prettie Girls, guest designers, and Michelle from Stamper's Dream. We wanted to do so something for her since none of us could be there in person to celebrate it with her.  Some of us were assigned to bring something and some of us are sharing birthday cards or projects we made for her.  As for me, well you know it had to be something altered and treat related and so I'm bringing birthday favors.   

Charmaine - this will be going out to you tomorrow and hope enjoy the chocolate!  Hope you have an amazing birthday!!!

Here's the party favor, Birthday Sweets for the sweet!

I used Paper Pretties Stamp of the Month, Howdy Girlfriend, as the main image and for the sentiment I used Sweets for the Sweet and Stampin' Up!'s Happy Everything set.  I adhered Sophia to the treat basket with pop glue dots - love how it makes it look like she's standing on her ow.  To subscribe to the club you can click here, Stamp of the Month Club and make sure to let Christie know you found out about the club on my blog!

Now to see more fun birthday projects, check out these blogs:

Christie

Colleen

Danielle

Donna

Jana

Jackie

Jackie P.

Jessie

Jodi

Julie

Laurie

Michelle

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you're having a cupcakelicious day,

Inspired Hugs & Kisses

Happy Saturday!  I'm really excited about this weekend and specifically tomorrow because I'm driving to Sacramento with some friends to take a couple of classes with the very talented Julie Ebersole. I've admired her work for a long time and have heard lovely things about her so meeting her in person is such a treat.  

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th!  I didn't get to stamp a lot but was able to get a peek at this week's Inspiration Challenge and as soon as I saw it, Melanie Muenchinger's Cuddles & Hugs set she designed for Gina K. Designs came to mind.  I've been wanting to use this set for a while and glad  was able to ink it up!  Here it is, Inspired Hugs & Kisses.

The card base is Certainly Celery and stamped the branch from this set with Tea Leaves Versa Magic ink. Then over each branch, I stamped another branch with Encore Ultimate Metallic gold.  I then created a band out of Groovy Guava and inked it it up with Encore Copper and Gold Ultimate Metallic ink.  I tied a Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon/bow around it, added three drew drops, and stamped the sentiment with Chocolate Chip Classic ink.

The image was stamped on Whisper White card stock with Chocolate Chip ink and I sponged it with Brilliance Pearlescent Orange and Encore Ultimate Metallic Copper.  I cut it out and adhered it to the card front.

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back in a bit with a special birthday surprise!

Hope you having a cupcakelicious day,

Notecard Sets

Happy 4th of July all!  In the spirit of the day I participate in today's Limited Supply Challenge which was to make a card or project with the following limitations1) Mostly Red, White, and Blue2) Only 4 or less layers deep

3) Only 4 embellishment or specialty tools

I was in the middle of making a notecard set and box to include in my swap package for my Gina K. swap buddy, which I've attached on this post as well, and decided to make one for this challenge as well and here it is, In Rain or Shine.

To make the box I followed the tutorial I found on the Scor-Pal site, which you can find here, Making Boxes. They're so adorable and really easy to put together, Tracy did an amazing job putting the tutorial putting it together and hope you give it a try.  I used the My Favorite Things Rain or Shine stamp set and made the 3" box.  I used the Swiss dot embossing folder on the note cards and the Tag Corner punch on all the corners.  I stayed with the Red, White and Blue theme for the card stock and ink.

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This next set, as I mentioned above I made for my swap partner to match the card I shared with you earlier in the week.

Here's the box - for the box I used Stampin' Up!'s Frame with Flourish set as well as Gina K. Designs Retro Boutique .

Here's a photo of the notecards I made to go inside the box.  This box is a little bigger an so I was able to include envelopes for the 3" x 3" notecards.  I used the Retro Boutique set again and stamped the image and sentiments with Basic Black and grounded the table with A Muse Oval Stamps with Basic Gray ink.

Finally, here's a photo of the notecard with the card.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a safe and fun 4th!

Hope you're having a cupcakelicious day,