2 more cards from my Stamp-a-Stack

These cards were made with a 4 1/4x5 1/2 base of either Bashful Blue or Rose Red. I used a strip of Cutie Pie DP but 4 1/4x 1 3/4; a strip of white cut 4 1/4 x 1 3/4 and rolled with Dilly Dally Friends in Night of navy ink. The Final strip of color (either Rose Red or Bashful Blue, whichever contrasted) 1/2" wide. I tried a variety of techniques on these strips: paper piercing and adding faux stitching with white gel pen; using my dot stamp from All in a Row; or just leaving it plain. For accents, I cut pieces out of a scrap wheeled with Dilly Dally Friends using the word window punch and also layering circles punches. The bottom circle layer is cut out of So Saffron. By the way the Cutie Pie paper shown is double sided, and what you see are the opposite sides of the paper. I colored in my Dilly Dally friends with blender pens and Pastels.

I like that I can take the same basic layout and same basic pieces of paper/CS/DP and turn out 2 different cards! Of course, there are more details I could've added--ribbon, hardward...but I try to keep it simpler for Stamp-a-stacks and cheaper! :) On other cards, we did add hardware, so I didn't want to do that for all the cards.

A Few of my Favorite Things

here are 3 cards that I made at my stamp-a-stack last week. This was probably the most difficult technique that we used--heat embossing. I actually first made this card by mistake, which I think I posted the earlier version made on Pretty in Pink cardstock. These cards were made on Lovely Lilac, Certainly Celery, and Regal Rose. I wheeled the Doodles jumbo wheel using a versamark self-inked cartridge, and embossed with white powder. I love how it looks elegant and lacy. Then I stamped a butterfly from Garden Whimsy in Lavender Lace and Regal Rose, cut it out, added glue and glitter and used tiny 3-D pops to adhere. I used Flowers for You DP for accent. For the Sentiment, I used a scrap strip to stamp the saying--from Garden Whimsy and So Many Sayings (hostess) in black ink. Then I snipped with scissors for length and used the ticket punch on the corners. I like how that turned out. By the way, one of my guests wants to hand stamp invitations to her daughter's 4th birthday in January, and wants me to help her--to do a mini stamp-a-stack for her using my supplies, but for her to make them and pay for them--and is thinking of doing a card similar to these. I think it's a great idea, and am contemplating the same idea for Hannah's 3rd birthday coming in February. I think it can look like princess/fairy cute girly stuff. Any comments?