Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Tropical Birthday!

Time is passing so quickly!  I just love all the tropical themed products in Stampin' Up!'s Summer Mini Catalog but the mini only goes through August 31 and it's the 17th already!  Yikes!  So today I have taken the opportunity to use four of the Summer Mini products on my card for the current Blogger's Challenge Birthday Challenge card!

 Pure Tempting Turquoise is the background color for my tropical creation.  A layer of Old Olive run through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder reminds of woven tropical mats and is the bottom layer, topped with a splash of color from the Island Oasis Designer Series Paper bordered with Rose Red trim (done with the Pinking Hearts Border Punch).  Multiple palm fronds are stamped in Old Olive on the turquoise behind the flower for that breezy tropical feel.

The flower was created primarily with die cuts using the Island Floral BigZ Die and the Big Shot machine.  Both the Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie flowers were die cut; the Saffron flower was stamped with the 5 Petal flower stamp from the Punched Posies Hostess set then punched out with the 5 Petal Flower Punch.  The large Pumpkin Pie flower has also been dry embossed with the Flourish design from the Texturz Plates Backgrounds I set and the Big Shot.  Dazzling Diamonds bling up the flower center!  The flower was  adhered with Dimensionals.

The birthday greeting stamp is from Perfect Punches (2010-2011 Catalog), stamped in Rose Red and punched out with the Wide Oval Punch.  Don't you just love all these wonderful punches?  They give such professional results and are so quick and easy to use!

The good news is that the Square Lattice Embossing Folder and the Island Blossoms BigZ die have been carried over to the new 2010-2011 Catalog; the sad news is that the Tropical Oasis Designer Paper  and the Tropical Party set were not  : (  If you want these, you will definitely need to order them before August 31st!

You can see the other Blogger's Challenge players' creations did by clicking on this link then clicking on their name to go to their blogs!

Any of these products can be ordered from your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, or if you don't have one, I'd be happy to help you.  Just email me here.

Thanks for visiting me today!  I plan to be posting more soon since I'm feeling better again.

Margaret

13 comments:

Nikki Bond said...

Definitely worth the wait Margaret...love this...great embossing and love how you embellished the flower. {SMILES}

Clara said...

Great card! I love all of these tropical colors together and the embossing you did.

Kimberly Gajewski said...

Terrific birthday card Margaret! What a fun mix of colors! Love the tropical feel and all of the embossing on this one! :D

Basement Stamper said...

What a fabulous card Margaret! I love the texture you added and the colors are so nice & bright/summery. Great job!

Susan said...

this has to be one of the most pretty cards from this set & paper; the combo **amazing**! TFS..

Shelly Schmidt said...

Fabulous card- I love the bright colors of the card stock and DSP. Great card- feel better Margaret!

barb said...

WOW!! This should be sent in for publication, Margaret! It is fun, bold and really pleasing to the eye. Hope you submit it somewhere! ;)

barb

Lisa Somerville said...

Love the bright bold colors

Rose said...

Very cute card, love the vivid colors and your stacked flowers are awesome. So much fun to look at.

BarbaraW said...

Pretty. Love the tropical colors.

Lisa Bohler said...

Such Summer fun shown in a super cute card!!!

Ida said...

Oh la la! This is a tropcial delight.

Marilyn SanClemente said...

What a great card. I love the way you did the texture with the flowers.

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