Celebrate The Paper Players 300th Post with Birthday Fiesta

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I am thrilled to be back as a Guest Designer for The Paper Players 300th Challenge!  The theme this week is “Clean and Simple Celebration”.  To celebrate this occasion, we have blog candy to give away, and lots of it! The team has assembled not one, not two, but ten grab bags full of stampin’ goodness! To be eligible to win one, all you need to do is play along with our challenge this week.  You can play as many times as you like, but each needs to be a new project (no back linking, please) and needs to follow our other challenge rules.  Winners will be selected from all PP300 challenge participants using Random.org and will be posted on Saturday, June 25.   Let’s get this celebration started with a card created with Stampin’ Up!’s Birthday Fiesta stamp set. What says celebrate more than a llama in a sombrero?  I hope you enjoy today’s cute card!

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The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips
This finished card measures 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ when folded.

When I think of celebrating, I think of bright and cheery colors! Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo and Tempting Turquoise, along with a touch of Emerald Envy, are definitely festive.  I think this pattern, from the Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper collection is too cute!

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Of course, every celebration is little more jubilant with a bit of bling, don’t you think? That’s why I added a smattering of rhinestones.

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Even the llama from the Birthday Fiesta stamp set is celebrating The Paper Player’s 300th Challenge by donning a sombrero…snipped from the designer paper.

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The Paper Players has always held a place in my heart.  As a bit of trivia, I won the very first Paper Player’s challenge with this card:

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Wow! What a blast from the past!

I hope you will join us in this week’s very special challenge.  And remember…if you ever have any questions about the cards I create or the techniques I use, I am only an email away! Until next time…

 

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Birthday Fiesta for Pals Paper Arts

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It’s Thursday…and time to play at Pals Paper Arts!  This week, Lisa Ann Bernard has provided us with a classic sketch.  Feeling the urge to play with products from the new catalog, I pulled out the Birthday Fiesta stamp set.  Now you might be thinking, “This does not really look like a set Ann Schach would purchase.”  If you thought this, you are right! But at the urging of my son, Brady, I bit the bullet and ordered it.  And you know what…I discovered I LOVE it and the adorable coordinating Festive Birthday Designer Series paper.  I think it is the llama which captured my heart.  In fact, you’ll see a second card I created with this set coming up in a few weeks when I rejoin the crew at The Paper Players as a one-time guest…but more about that in another post.  I hope you enjoy today’s card!

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The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips
This finished card is 4-1/4″ wide and 5-1/2″ long when folded.

  • Do the mambo! What do you do when you don’t have a Melon Mambo doily, and you absolutely, positively want to use one? Why, you just create your own!  I used a brayer to color the back of a 2015 – 2017 In Color doily.  These happen to be white on the back.  Ta-DA!!! Instant Melon Mambo doily!

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  • Bump it up! To make this Emerald Envy Cactus appear closer, I bumped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, while using SNAIL to adhere the cactus in the background.  The Melon Mambo circles are from the new Brights Enamel Shapes. I LOVE them!

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  • Party on! Someone said the sentiment “Fiesta like there’s no mañana” isn’t grammatically correct, but I still think it is cute.  This time I inked it in Archival Basic Black, and created a banner. I like that you can selectively ink the word “Fiesta” and just use it, if you would like.

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What do you think of this set? One of the pluses is you can purchase it as a bundle with the Fiesta Time Framelits Dies so you do not have to fussy cut the coordinating images. What a time saver! Hopefully I will be able to send this card out after this weekend. We will be in Wheaton, IL for the Tree Town Boxer Specialty, and if Jackie wins, we will definitely be Fiesta-ing like there is no tomorrow!  As always, if you have any questions about the cards I create, or the techniques I use, I am only an email away!
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Paper Pumpkin Special

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Have you ever wanted to try Paper Pumpkin…but were not quite sure you wanted to take the plunge?  Stampin’ Up! has a ONE DAY – 31 Hour deal for you!  It’s just $5 for the June kit!  There is absolutely NO OBLIGATION to continue to receive the kits.  After the first one, the regular price is $19.95.

Check out the details:

  • The price of the kit is $5.
  • This offer is open to first-time subscribers only. The discount applies to one kit for June 2016. After the first month, the price for the subscription will return to $19.95.
  • Offer starts on Thursday, June 9 at 5:00 PM MT (6:00 PM CST) and ends Friday, June 10 at 11:50 PM MT.

If you are ready to take the plunge and try a little “creativity in a box”,  sign up on Thursday, June 9 at 6:00 CST!   CLICK HERE FOR THE LINK!  Until next time…
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