Each month I have the opportunity to participate in a Team Swap with my stamping family across the United States. Decembers focus was cards using products from the January – May catalog or the January – February Sale-A-Bration. For this card – I combined products from both catalogs.

The images from the Best Day stamp set are so much fun to color! I have to admit – I am not great at alcohol coloring – but this kitty sure did make it easy and fun to color. I used several different color combinations while I was playing with this stamp. This turned out to be my favorite.

I used a piece of Petal Pink as my card base and stamped the confetti image several times in the upper right corner and lower left corner with Petal Pink ink. I used a 2 7/8″ x 4 1/8″ Basic White to mat a piece of 2 3/4″ x 4″ Dandy Designs Designer Series Paper (DSP). I also used a scrap pierce of Basic White to stamp the image in Memento Black Ink (it’s a must if you are going to color with alcohol markers) and to stamp the sentiment in Calypso Coral on a banner from the Stylish Shape Dies as well as cutting a second banner from Calypso Coral and cutting it in half to tuck behind the Basic White banner. Of course, no card is complete without a little bling – so I added a few Basic Rhinestones and a touch of Wink of Stella on the balloon.

You will love the Dandy Designs DSP as much as I do and it can be yours FREE as a $100 SAB level.

Hello there! In just a few days (January 5, 2023) you will be able to earn the Day at the Farm Designer Series Paper (DSP) FREE! The DSP has really great options not just for card making but for samplers or scrapbooking as well!

I volunteer with a leadership organization for young women called Job’s Daughters International. One of the local chapters I work with picked the theme “Jobie Farm” and this DSP and bundle really has made making cards and gifts for the young women so much fun!

At first glace this card looks like there are lots of pieces and would be very time consuming! But that’s simply not the case. I started with a Cherry Cobbler card base. I attached a piece of DSP that was 4″ x 5 1/4″ and another piece of DSP that is 1 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ at the lower portion of the card. Now it’s time to start all the details!

Using my Cut and Emboss Machine, I cut a Tailor made Tag in Kraft paper (if you don’t have craft paper Crumb Cake would work well too!), I took a piece of scrap Petal Pink for the pigs, Basic Black for the windmill, and on Basic White I stamped in Memento The barn and hale bale and in Smokey Slate I stamped the clouds. I lined up the dies for all of that plus the goose. And die cut it all at the same time!

I grabbed a handful of Stampin’ Blends to color the barn and hay bale: Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, and So Saffron. Pumpkin Pie went onto the gooses nose and feet while the Basic Black Stampin’ Write marker created eyes for the pigs and goose.

I stamped the hill scene a few times on the bottom half of the tag in Crumb Cake and started to adhere all of my pieces on the tag. Some I attached flat while others I used dimensional to raise up.

I used Windowpane Ribbon and tied it with Crumb Cake twine in the tag and adhered it onto the card with dimensionals. I also stamped from all of us in Cherry Cobbler and tucked it under the tag and sniped off any over hang on the card.