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Hello! Thanks for popping by today. I am so pleased that you are here.

Today I wanted to share a Birthday card that I have made. It features the Pattern Party 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper, that is one of the Stampin’ Rewards products in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue.

As you can see, I am also featuring the Stitched Rectagles Dies. I carefully positiond the die so that each piece would look almost identical. Working from the centre out, each triangle was glued onto a piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock, with spaces in between. One of the striped triangles was cut in half for each end. The Granny Apple Green piece was attached to a slightly wider piece of Coastal Cabana card.

Using one of the Basic Borders Dies, I cut two lengths of Basic White cardstock and adhered them behind the Coastal Cabana. These layers were then popped up onto a Flirty Flamingo card base using lots of Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The birthday greeting is from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set and it was cut using the banner die from the Hybrid Bloom Dies. The card insert and envelope had a half triangle attached before Coastal Cabana Playing with Patterns Resin Dots were added.

I used three different sets of dies for this card. This card is all about the DSP and the shapes that have been cut. These two designs, from the huge 48 sheet bundle of DSP, are so gorgeous.

These is only one stamp used, once. My fingers didn’t get very inky with this project.

What do you think?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Artistically Inked Cling Stamp Set [154542] $42.00	Bloom Hybrid Embossing Folder [155989] $57.00	Basic Borders Dies [155558] $50.00	Stitched Triangles Dies [152710] $61.00
Pattern Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Host Designer Series Paper [155426] $31.00	Playing With Patterns Resin Dots [152467] $14.00	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] $14.25	Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana [131302] $15.25
Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock [141421] $15.25	Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock [147014] $15.25	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $13.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00

Hello, hello. Thank you for popping by to see what I have for you today.

My daughter shares an apartment with a lovely young woman from Wales. She works as a paediatric nurse and has recently been given permanent residency and a new job, at he hospital she works in. And, what does any daughter with a mum who makes cards do? She asked me to make a card to congratulate her.

My daughter’s room mate adores penguins and, fortunately, we now have the Count on Me Stamp Set.

If you have been visiting regularly over the last few weeks you will know that my Stamparatus has been put to good use. I used it again for this card so that I could evenly space and position the congratulations message, which comes from the A Grand Kid Stamp Set. Then I stamped and coloured the penguins before I was back doing some fussy cutting. Two of the penguins were mirrored stamped.

Each of the penguins was then popped up, on the card front, using Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also stamped and coloured the penguiins on the card insert and envelope – you know me, that’s my thing. I added some Clear Wink of Stella on each of the balloons. I’m not sure why I didn’t add any bling to the card – oops.

As you can see, I used quite a few colours to brighten up the five floating penguins. I can’t wait to use the other cute animal images for some new projects.

Do you know someone who loves penguins?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Count On Me Cling Stamp Set [155647] $38.00	A Grand Kid Cling Stamp Set (English) [152500] $37.00	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock [147014] $15.25
Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $13.00	Pacific Point Classic Stampin' Pad [147098] $13.00	Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad [147050] $13.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $52.50
Basic Black Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154843] $15.50	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883] $15.50	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154885] $15.50	Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $15.50	Stampin' Blends Color Lifter [144608] $7.75
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00

Hello! I am so pleased that you have popped by to see what I have to share with you today.

If you have been visiting fairly regualrly, you will know that I have been featuring new products from current catalogue. Today’s project uses a product that has carried over into the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue.

Let me share the background story first.

While my daughters encourage my paper crafting and lovingly ‘tolerate’ my endlessly showing them the projects I have made, they surprise me from time to time. They do actually understand what I do and often keep an eye open for something that I could use for a project.

Recently, my eldest daughter visited and gave me a chocolate she had found that she thought I would like to make a gift box for – she was spot on! She found a Kinder Happy Hippo.

I immediately thought of Robyn Cardon’s Hippo Happiness Stamp Set, created for her Million Achievement Milestone.

There definitely needs to be more than just one chocolate in a gift box, so I went in search of them. I found a five pack in my local supermarket – now we’re talkiing.

So it was time to design a box to pop three of them into.

I took three of the chocolates and did some measuring and sketching on my Gridpaper to create the layout for this flip top box. The box was made using a 12″x 8″ piece of Basic White cardstock. Before I assembled the box, I cut Balmy Blue cardstock and DSP from the Subtles 6″x 6″ DSP to adhere to each of the box panels.

The front panels were shaped using one of the Basic Borders Dies. Once attached, I assembled the gift box and the Happy Hippos were a perfect fit.

Then I cut the label for the front of the box using one of the Hippo & Friends Dies. The greeting was stamped in Balmy Blue ink onto this panel. Three balloons were also stamped, using Balmy Blue, Blushing Bride and So Saffron. The balloon ribbons were stamped using Smoky Slate. The birthday greeting was stamped,and cut using the long banner from the Bloom Dies (Bloom Hybrid). I repositioned the die to shorten the length of the banner.

With the lid closed, I postioned the large Basic White panel to secure the lid in place. The bottom half of the panel had Stampin’ Dimensionals to ensure it had enough height to allow the lid to tuck under the it. The birthday banner was popped up, using Stampin’ Dimensionals also, in the top right-hand corner of the lid.

I used my Stamparatus to stamp the three Hippos for the front of the gift box. They were then die cut and positioned on the front greeting panel. Clear Wink of Stella was used to add some glimmer to the balloons and hippos. Finally, I added some Blue Adhesive-Backed Gems for some extra bling.

This is such a cute little gift box to give to someone who loves hippopotami (hippopotauses). Who would you give this to?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Hippo Happiness Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [152644] $31.00	Hippo & Friends Dies [153585] $63.00	Bloom Hybrid Embossing Folder [155989] $57.00	Blue Adhesive-Backed Gems [153547] $14.00	Subtles 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [153072] $20.00
Basic White 12 X12 (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock [159231] $13.50	Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] $15.25	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105] $13.00	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [147100] $13.00	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [147109] $13.00
Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $13.00	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Stampin' Seal+ [149699] $21.00
Stamparatus [148187] $85.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00