Happy Birthday Card Featuring Sale-A-Bration DSP

This is such a monumental thing- I STAMPED! With paper and ink and scissors and stamps! I don't remember the last time I did that (and the blog is called Stamping With Erica, imagine that). I think it's been all of the cute samples I've seen posted from Stampin' Up!'s Leadership conference that inspired me.

My mom was making her swaps for Leadership, and these were the products sitting out on the table, so it's what I used. I am so rusty at this, that I barely remembered how to use the Big Shot die cut machine. Does the die go in this way or that? I think this card would be a good masculine one to give to a guy. I mean, I know the cake has flowers on it, and there is a ribbon, but you can't take the feminine completely out of stamping, you know?

This fabulous paper (Sycamore Street) is available in 7 days! You can get it free with any $50 purchase. (Remember, digital products purchased count toward that!) There are also some great digital discs you can get for free if you prefer. I think I'm going to need everything in the brochure! Click here to see it all. Make sure you get your order in between Jan. 22 - Mar. 22 so you can get your free products!

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Supplies used:

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Wedding Gift Scrapbook Page + colourQ Challenge #104

For the first time in a long time I created a scrapbook page using paper! Of course, it is a gift for a friend who is getting married tomorrow. (I prefer digital layouts of our family pictures so that I can print a copy for Esper's book and one for our family book.) I hope the friend that I made this for doesn't see my blog before I give it to her tomorrow... (but if she does I hope she likes it.)

My Jeff helped take their engagement and bridal pictures and I think he did a great job.

I stamped each of their initials using the Monogram Sweet stamp set.

I used an embossing folder to add texture to the flowers and then used a sanding block over the texture.

I created this layout using the colourQ color combo from challenge #104:

Along with the color combination, there was an additional challenge to pick a previous colourQueen to CASE (Copy And Share Everything). I chose this card to inspire my scrapbook layout:

Supplies used:

InLinkz.com

Big Shot Class Projects

I just thought I'd share the projects we made at me and my mom's combined Big Shot class. It was a lot of fun and I learned a ton about how to use it (I'm still a newb). My favorite was the wedding card with the two hearts- too cute! Let me know if you would be interested in a class like this, or if there are any other techniques or products you'd like to learn more about! (Click on the image to see the projects larger.)