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Butterfly Birthday – The Paper Players 247

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It’s Sunday and another challenge for you this week from The Paper Players:

05:31pp247I love the Tic-Tac-Toe challenges! So many fun options to choose from! Here’s how I decided to go this week: Die-cut, Pattern Paper and Yellow, with just a sprinkling of blue and birthday 🙂

SKP Watermarked Photos4-023 I wanted to share a very special experience that I had this past Friday. I got to work alongside Stephanie Barnard and the Stamps of Life team in their booth at the San Diego Scrapbook Expo! Oh my goodness, it was sooo much fun to be there, help people discover stamping and enabling them with the wonderful product! The best experience happened late in the day when a lady just came into the booth and stood there. When she saw me, she announced that the Stamps of Life booth was SUCH a happy place that she just had to stand there and soak it all in. Yep, that sums it up perfectly!

I cam home Saturday and transferred some of that happy in paper and ink. And my card today is not only happy, it has a surprise…

SKP Watermarked Photos4-024Do you see what’s happening here? There’s a surprise inside!

SKP Watermarked Photos4-025Ta Da!! A fun flip it card with a special greeting hiding inside as well as a hidden panel on which to write your message!

SKP Watermarked Photos4-026Hmmm…I just had to pause there and soak in all the happy in this card! I created this card with the Sizzix Large Circle Flip-It Die, the hidden panel was invented by Stephanie and you can see here how she does it! I think the hidden panel just makes the card a bit more special 🙂

I added lots of sparkle to my card, and for once you can actually see it! Isn’t this butterfly fun? I created it with the Sizzix Triplits-Butterfly Dies. There are so many fun options with this die, AND is also has a coordinating stamp set for even more!! Please check it out and see for yourself!

SKP Watermarked Photos4-028Here’s a close up of the inside panel.

I hope that you’ve enjoyed my little bit of sunshine here today! Being around all those stamps and dies has my creative juices flowing!

I’m looking forward to seeing your creations this week, I do hope you will play along with us!

If you’re not inspired enough, here’s some more awesome inspiration for you:

The Paper Players Design Team

Wishing you joy and blessings!

Products Used:

Cardstock: Sky by The Stamps of Life

Pattern Paper: Happy Collection by The Stamps of Life

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps:   chalksayings2stamp and morechalksayings2stamp by The Stamps of Life

Dies: Banner Die by The Stamps of Life, the Triplits-Butterfly Die and the Large Circle Flip-Its Die by Sizzix (designed for Sizzix by Stephanie Barnard)

Tools:  MISTI by My Sweet Petunia

Embellishments: Wink of Stella

Butterfly Birthday - The Paper Players 247g

Chalk Sayings – SSSC265

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Happy Hump Day!! I was able to do a bit of stamping this weekend and I thought that the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge would be a great way to showcase some new stamps I picked up on Saturday!

1-IMG_8186Aren’t they FUN?? I used a set from The Stamps of Life called morechalksayings2stamp. I chose this combination of sentiments so that this card would be able to cover a wide variety of situations…birthday of course, but also graduation, new job, making the team, passing the test, getting the promotion, LOTS of things, right? I used my MISTI to align the greeting up perfectly within my square, as well as the sentiment within the banner. Love that tool!

I also broke out some papers from The Stamps of Life April card kit. I love the cheerful squiggles and the green highlights them! I also used some of the twin from the card kit, I’m in love with the fact that it has THREE colors in it! Fun!!

I originally envisioned a clean white backdrop but ended up adding a few polka dots 🙂 They are actually a flower base stamp from a Simon Says Stamp set, but I really like the perfectly imperfect circles they create! I also added little confetti pops with a bit of sparkle in the center…such a happy card!

3-IMG_8188The Stamps of Life manufacturing facility is located relatively close to me, in Irvine, CA and several time a year they open their facility for a card class taught by the owner/designer Stephanie Bernard, as well opening a small shop located within their manufacturing facility. I was fortunate to attend both this weekend!! Here is a picture of the card class:

2-IMG_8172And here is a peek at their store and Stephanie mingling with the crowd:

1-IMG_8171It was quite crowded in there but I managed to acquire some fun new goodies to share with you, including the stamp set I used here today! I was also fortunate enough to be able to meet and chat with Stephanie one-on-one for a bit! She’s just as sweet in person as she is in her videos!

Thank you for stopping by!!

Wishing you joy and blessings!

Products Used:

Cardstock: Stamper’s Select White by Papertrey Ink

Pattern Paper: Wishes Collection by The Stamps of Life

Ink:  Raspberry Fizz, Orange Zest, New Leaf, Harvest Gold, Blueberry Sky by Papertrey Ink

Stamps:  morechalksayings2stamp by The Stamps of Life; Favorite Flowers by Simon Says Stamp

Dies: Banner Dies by The Stamps of Life

Tools:  None

Embellishments: Baker’s Twine by The Stamps of Life and Wink of Stella