Summer Silhouettes Sparkly Welcome & Birthday Cards

 Current Events

  • Stamper Sampler Class—"I'm Bringing Birthdays Back" Class. Date & details TBA.
  • Stamp-of-the-Month Class—Returning in May.
  • Sale-a-Bration Celebration Exclusive Event—April 24. Details TBA.
  • "Last Thursdays" Monthly Class—April 28.  4 Cards for $10.

Current Specials

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Hi Stamping Friends, 

I'm so excited that I'll be seeing & stamping with my Too Cool Team tonight at our monthly event!  What a blessing to have these stampers in my life—I've missed them so much!  Not only have they encouraged me and had my back during two of the most difficult months of my life, they have also been busy sharing their enthusiasm for stamping while I was gone! 

Too Cool Team Shout-Out!  Can I take a moment to sing some praises for our team? We've had some INCREDIBLE growth during Sale-a-Bration—doubling our size in only 3 months!  Wow!  We now have more than 70 members in my combined 1st, 2nd & 3rd levels, and we have team members in 11 states!  I'm so grateful to each and every one of them for sharing this stamping journey with me.  They are truly the ones that make our "little" community of stampers Too Cool!

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Summer silhouettes - two cool

Summer Silhouettes Sparkly Cards

Some of the happy mail that I've been sending out recently has been to our new Too Cool team members!  I created this card especially for them with the pretty Summer Silhouettes stamp set. I love the Lost Lagoon & Mint Macaron color combination, so I'm trying to use it as much as possible before the Lost Lagoon In Color retires at the end of May.  <sadface>

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Background Basics—I started by applying a strip of It's My Party Washi Tape to a 5-1/2" x 3/4" strip of Mint Macaron card stock, then adhering it to a Tip Top Taupe card base.

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Two-Step Blossoms—I stamped three stems of the Summer Silhouettes flowers in Tip Top Taupe ink onto a 5" x 3-3/4" piece of Whisper White card stock.  Next, I stamped the tops of the flowers in Lost Lagoon ink.  I created a thicker flower, but stamping once at the tips of the flower stems, then again without re-inking just a little above.  I finished by stamping a few Mint Macaron leaves from the same stamp set.  I matted the layer onto a 5-1/8" x 3-7/8" piece of Lost Lagoon card stock, then popped up the entired piece with Dimensionals onto the card base.

So Sparkly—I dotted my 2-Way Glue Pen nib over the top of all of the flower points, then sprinkled on Dazzling Diamonds.  Ooohh!  Super-sparkly goodness!

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Sweet Sentiment—I stamped the greeting, which comes from a special demonstrator stamp set (and I can't recall its name), in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. 

Bitty Butterfly—The sentiment is highlighted with a Bitty Butterfly punched shape adorned with a Rhinestone Jewel.  The butterfly is adhered with a Glue Dot and the wings are gently bent for dimension.

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Two Cool—My second card features a vertical version with only two blooms.  The birthday sentiment is from the Rose Wonder stamp set.  Pretty, pretty!

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Complete Supplies List—"Clear" means a rubber stamp on a clear block. "Photopolymer" is see-thru.

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Until next time,

Angie

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