Good morning Stamping Friends!

I had a fun Birthday Card Class the weekend before Leadership, so wanted to show you some of the cards and share the tutorials from this class!

Here's the first one, a Birthday Cake Pedestal Card complete with Hershey Nuggets attached!

©Stampin'Up!™1990-2012

I also swapped a few of these at Leadership. They are a bulky card, and of course would be impossible to mail (and the postage would be high), but I'm thinking it would make an excellent hand-delivered or attached to a gift kind of card!

The phrase, "happy birthday with a cherry on top!" I thought was appropriate for two reasons, the first being I added punched Calypso Coral cherries from the Cupcake Builder punch to the top of the cake, and second I used the new Cherry-scented Embossing Powder to emboss the phrase! WOW, this embossing powder REALLY smells like cherry while you are sprinkling and using it, but not so much after you have heated it. Stampin' Up! says the scent is designed to be aromatic for two weeks after it is heated, so you need to give this card QUICK before the scent dissipates!

I do have my hand-out/tutorial from this card for you today:

Download Cherry on Top

Also, I need to clarify the smudginess of some of the lettering. My stamp wasn't Versamarked enough when I stamped the phrase, so I went back in with my Versamarker and corrected the flaw in the stamping so the words would emboss correctly. Not my best effort, I admit, but it is what it is and I didn't take any pictures of any of the other ones I made for swaps for Leadership, so hopefully your efforts will turn out much better than mine!

It's hard to see in the picture, but I used the "Heart Presssed" Letterpress Plate on the Crumb Cake background. On my swaps I took this one step further and rubbed my Versamark Pad on the plate before running it through the Big Shot. I also left the area where I was stamping the greeting un-letterpressed so I wouldn't have to compete with the background or have issues with the Cherry-scented Embossing Powder sticking to the background. I DID use my Embossing Buddy on the area before stamping and embossing. I sure hope Stampin' Up! gets a new supplier the Embossing Buddy soon! I have kept using it even though we lost our supplier last September and have a waiting list of customers wanting to order it as soon as it is available again!

Until tomorrow, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!

Good morning Stamping Friends!

I had a fun Birthday Card Class the weekend before Leadership, so wanted to show you some of the cards and share the tutorials from this class!

Here's the first one, a Birthday Cake Pedestal Card complete with Hershey Nuggets attached!

©Stampin'Up!™1990-2012

I also swapped a few of these at Leadership. They are a bulky card, and of course would be impossible to mail (and the postage would be high), but I'm thinking it would make an excellent hand-delivered or attached to a gift kind of card!

The phrase, "happy birthday with a cherry on top!" I thought was appropriate for two reasons, the first being I added punched Calypso Coral cherries from the Cupcake Builder punch to the top of the cake, and second I used the new Cherry-scented Embossing Powder to emboss the phrase! WOW, this embossing powder REALLY smells like cherry while you are sprinkling and using it, but not so much after you have heated it. Stampin' Up! says the scent is designed to be aromatic for two weeks after it is heated, so you need to give this card QUICK before the scent dissipates!

I do have my hand-out/tutorial from this card for you today:

Download Cherry on Top

Also, I need to clarify the smudginess of some of the lettering. My stamp wasn't Versamarked enough when I stamped the phrase, so I went back in with my Versamarker and corrected the flaw in the stamping so the words would emboss correctly. Not my best effort, I admit, but it is what it is and I didn't take any pictures of any of the other ones I made for swaps for Leadership, so hopefully your efforts will turn out much better than mine!

It's hard to see in the picture, but I used the "Heart Presssed" Letterpress Plate on the Crumb Cake background. On my swaps I took this one step further and rubbed my Versamark Pad on the plate before running it through the Big Shot. I also left the area where I was stamping the greeting un-letterpressed so I wouldn't have to compete with the background or have issues with the Cherry-scented Embossing Powder sticking to the background. I DID use my Embossing Buddy on the area before stamping and embossing. I sure hope Stampin' Up! gets a new supplier the Embossing Buddy soon! I have kept using it even though we lost our supplier last September and have a waiting list of customers wanting to order it as soon as it is available again!

Until tomorrow, have a "Stampingrox!" Day!