My first post - Hooray!

This card started from white cardstock. There is no colored or patterned paper used.

This is a tri-fold card, so you need a piece of 5 1/2 x 12" paper. You score it an cut it (exact instructions can be found on splitcoaststampers.com). Once I had the cardstock scored, cut and folded, I took a green stamppad and rubbed it all over the white card.

I use SU! stamppads - they have the nylon covering. I tried using my silver colorbox stamppad once, and just about wrecked it.

I then measured and cut out white cardstock for the layers, this was complicated and I'm going to create a project in Design Studio to do this for me from now on. Once I got the white cardstock layers cut out. I stamped the pink flowers from Hampton Arts. I love these big flowers and I got them on sale. The 3, 0 , happy, birthday, and celebrate I cut out with my cricut. The purple stamp background is from a Stampendous set as is the background stamp that I used for the yellow. The big accordian flower (fan-fold flower is the technique) is a piece of white cardstock cut at a 1x12". I used a scallop border punch to punch along the one side. At every notch, I scored it, and then once it was all scored, I folded it accordian style (complete instructions on splitcoaststampers.com). Before I scored and folded it though, I stamped on it with pink and purple and yellow flowers from the same Hampton Arts set. This one of my favorite stamp sets.

This is the same style of card. I made this for my niece who turned 12 in January. The little girl is from Everyday Paper Dolls (cricut cart). I stamped the flowers on her shirt and colored them in. The stamp is from SU! stamp set. Again, I started out with all white cardstock. The only part that was colored cardstock is her hair and her jeans. Doesn't she have the cutest face. It's a face from the peachy keen faces. If you have the Paper Dolls carts, you really should have the peachy keen faces. So cute!
This was the first time that I had ever used bling. Aren't those little flower blings so cute!? They totally added the final touches to the card. I remember when I added them, my thought was - so cute, why haven't I done this before??

This card I made for brother who plays in a band and has countless guitars. The embossing is done with my cuttlebug and the music fiskars embossing template. I scuffed over it with my colorbox silver stamppad to bring out the embossing. The rocker dude is from Everyday Paper Dolls cart. Love that cart, one of my favs.