Happy Birthday with Mama Elephant

Here are 2 birthday cards I made using the Mama Elephant Make a Wish stamp set.

Both of these cards are 5.25x4.5 and were made with the following:

• Mama Elephant Make a Wish stamp set
• Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles
• WOW Metallic Brass Embossing Power
• Versamark
• Distress Ink Festive Berries, Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn (used for the lighter colored card)
• Pan Pastels 430.5 Magenta, 250.5 Dairylide Yellow, 640.4 Permanent Green Shade (used on the darker card)

To make the cards:

1. For the darker card, I randomly added the Pan Pastels to the card stock, making sure to overlap the color.  The Pan Pastels were then sealed. 
2. For the lighter card, I used watercolor paper, wet it and then randomly added the distress ink. 
3. Once both were dry, I stamped the sentiment with Versamark, then added the embossing powder, and heat set. Both were then cut with Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles.
4. A larger rectangle was used to cut the backgrounds. 
5. All pieces were then added to the card fronts. 

Gold Star for you

Here is a Gold Star card - its 4.25 x 5.5.

I used:

• Glitter Ritz Champagne Glitter
• Sookwang tape
• Cricut Artbooking Cartridge

To make the card, I first attached the Sookwang tape to white card stock.  I then used that in my Cricut, and cut various size stars from the Artbooking cartridge.  I then exposed the sticky part of the tape and added the Glitter Ritz glitter, and burnished it.  The stars were randomly added to the card front.  I added pop dots to the largest star before attaching it to the card.

Quilted Get Well Card

Here is a quick get well card.  This card is 4,25 x 5.5.

To make this card, I used:

• Various papers from the Authentique Thankful Collection
• WPlus9 Quilt Cuts 2
• Technique Tuesday Greenhouse Society Stamp
• Memento Rich Cocoa Ink

To make the card, I cut the quilt square from several different sheets of the Authentique paper.  I then added these to the background.  The final quilt square was then matted.  The sentiment was stamped on Authentique paper and then trimmed to size and added to the card.  

Elizabeth Craft Designs Blue Bird Card

Here is another Thank You card.  This card is 4.25 x 5.5.

For the card I used:

• Minds Eye Meadow paper stack
• Wink of Stella Clear
• Technique Tuesday Greenhouse Society "Thanks so much" stamp
• Memento Danube Blue
• Elizabeth Craft Designs 709 Bird dies
• Glitter Ritz Royal Blue and Light Copper
• Sookwang Tape

To make the card, I added the Sookwang tape to white card stock.  I then die cut the birds.  After die cutting, I exposed the tape, and added the Micro fine glitter and burnished it.  I cut the background paper to the size of the card base and attached it.  The birds were then added.  The sentiment was stamped with the Memento Danube Blue ink.  Wink of Stella was added the leaves of the paper for extra shimmer.