Libby Fens, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Libby Fens offering original and creative paper crafting projects. I host monthly Card Buffets, specialty classes and weekly inspiration for card making.

Starburst Framelit Dies

Celebrate Baby Baby

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As I’m looking for inspiration for my Card Buffet, I like to take time to play along the way. Not everything I make is for my classes.

As I’ve posted before, there are lots of expectant mothers to be around me. So, I guess I’m in a baby card making mood.

I have new stuff to play with too. I just need some direction. I liked this sketch from Techno Stamper. It’s their Monday Lunchtime Sketch. It just looked fun! See –

I thought it’d work well with the Celebrate Today stamp set and the Balloon Framelits Dies. I also decided to incorporate some Sale-a-Bration DSP into the mix. This is my take on the sketch –

libbystamps, Celebrate Today, Balloon Framelits, Best Day Ever DSP, Sale-a-Bration, Starburst Framelits

I wasn’t sure how I’d like this stamp set and framelits. After playing around with them to create this card, I LOVE them!

I used colors from the DSP, pairing it with pink. Guess I was thinking ‘girl’, but, this could easily have been on a blue card base as well. This card just came together effortlessly. I used some retired taffeta ribbon to ‘tie’ it together. No pun intended….

I’d love to read what you think!

Happy Stampin’
Libby

Bursting with Thanks

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Just a quick share today. A Thank You card. You can make this in no time as well. See for yourself –

libbystamps, Starburst Framelits, Fabulous Four, All Abloom DSP, Sequins

I started with Garden Green as a base. I stamped my sentiment from Fabulous Four, a must have fabulous set, in Garden Green on Pistachio Pudding card stock.

I used the Starburst Framelits to cut out the image carefully leaving it towards the upper portion of the framelit. After placing it to the left on the card, I added a strip of DSP from the new All Abloom paper pack.

The random placement of the sequins were just the last addition this card needed to be complete, don’t you think?

Happy Stampin’
Libby

Watercolor Thank You

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Happy Sunday everyone!

Quick share from my Card Buffet today. This was inspired by Freshly Made Sketches. Here is what they wanted you to follow –

This is what I came up with –

libbystamps, Watercolor Thank You, Silver Foil Sheets, Starburst Framelits

I really, really liked this challenge. It just inspired me. I am a big fan of this little Watercolor Thank You – I just could not figure out how to use it. When I saw this challenge, that was the y way to go. And, with the In-Color DSP stack, SO easy.

Quite easy to duplicate in mass quantities too! What you think?

Happy Stampin’
Libby

…..And the Winner Is

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Happy Sunday! Finally taking a little time for myself! Decided to create a card.

I’ve Pinned several different challenges as usual, but now I’m trying to get back around to playing with some of them. Since tonight, many will watch the Oscars, I thought why not create a card for that?

So, I went to Freshly Made Sketches and decided to play along with this layout –

Nice layout, huh? See my take on it –

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My card is fresh, fun and simple! It’d make a great jacket for an Oscar nominee list or a party invite or just a simple birthday card.

The star of this card is the Gold Foil Paper. This stuff is a bit hard to photograph. I added a little extra with the Watercolor Wonder Washi Tape.

I wanted to coordinate the edging around the Foil with my sentiment. In my retired bin of punches, I found the Pinking Hearts Border Punch which works perfectly.

‘The Winner’ is from a main catalog stamp set Blue Ribbon. We have sort of forgotten about those, haven’t we?

I was able to use the new Starburst Framelit Dies here as well.

As an accent color, I thought Real Red was real appropriate!

Thanks for taking a look. Hope you enjoyed my Oscar card share for today! Thanks Freshly Made Sketches for the terrific layout that I used here!

Happy Stampin’
Libby

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