Retiring set- Always!

This week I'll be sharing cards we made at my Last Chance Stamp-a-Stack last week. The first one was this card using the stamp set Always. This is a beautiful stamp set with a bird, branches, a heart and some great sentiments! To make this card, I used simple circles to create a simple yet very pretty card. This would be great for a wedding or anniversary or any other special occasion.

Here are some other cards I've made in the past with this set:

Details for this card can be found here.

Details for this card can be found here.

If you don't have this set and love this card, you can order this set from me until the end of the month. Contact me for details or click the link below to order online!

stamps:Always
ink: concord crush, pear pizazz
paper:concord crush, pear pizazz, very vanilla, crumb cake
other: circle punches 2.5", 1 3/8" and 1/2", dimensional dot

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One more flamingo card...

Are you sick of those flamingos yet? I just love them!

Here's another card using the Valentine Defined Stamp set with those cute flamingos. I used the melon mambo cardstock on this one again, pairing it with early espresso this time. I stamped the early espresso card stock with the "love you" image with early espresso ink. Then I stamped the lines of hearts with melon mambo ink on pretty in pink cardstock. The flamingos are stamped with pretty in pink ink and melon mambo for the heart on whisper white and punched out with the large oval punch. I then added some ribbon and a scallop trim border. Then I realized I hadn't left much room for a sentiment on the bottom so I went searching through my stamps and found the sentiment that I used from the Always stamp set. It says "always on my mind- forever in my heart" -- perfect for a valentine!

stamps: Valentine defined, Always
ink: Early espresso, melon mambo, pretty in pink
paper: Early Espresso, melon mambo, pretty in pink, whisper white
other: pretty in pink grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Trim Border Punch, dimensionals

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Heart Card

Here is a cute card I made for Valentines Day. I was playing with this kind of funky color combo and I like how it turned out. I started out using the Big heart from the stamp set Always. I really liked how this heart had dots around the edge so I stamped it first on the taken with teal and trimmed it down and then stamped it on whisper white with Cameo Coral ink and trimmed it down past the dots to make the main layered image. Then I mounted it on a piece of so saffron and that was stamped with the branch from the Always set. To add to the dot effect, I paper pierced around the whole edge of the so saffron piece. This piece is mounted on a piece of rose red cardstock. The little bitty heart is from the stamp set You & Moi. I also stamped that in Cameo Coral and cut it out. I attached it with a dimensional to pop it off the card. Then in the background I used a strip of Taken with teal and stamped it with the flower from the Always set. Added a little ribbon and the sentiment "thinking of you" from the Trendy Trees stamp set.

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Always card

This is definitely one of my favorite SU sets right now. I just love this bird! I've made a few cards with it but I wanted to make one using the "Always" sentiment so here's that one.

I made this card more masculine colors, using not quite navy and bashful blue with creamy caramel. It's a really simple card. I just stamped the caramel paper with the branch image, then stamped with bird with not quite navy, and mounted him on the bashful blue card stock. I did paper piercing on two sides of the image and stamped the sentiment below. If you can't read it it says "you mean everything to me." It's a simple card, I didn't even use ribbon, but I love how it turned out!

stamps: Always
ink: Not quite navy, creamy caramel
paper: whisper white, creamy caramel, bashful blue, not quite navy
other: paper piercing, circle punches

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Always a birthday

I can never have too many birthday cards around. It seems like whenever I need to send one, I don't have one that fits the person so I usually end up making one to fit that specific person. Now if I could just get them in the mail on time!!

This card I made for my Grandma. She really loves green so I thought she'd really like the color combo. All materials are from SU except the ribbon which is a Target dollar spot find.

I used the stamp set Always to stamp the branches on the background and the bird. I used the rock and roll technique I mentioned yesterday on this card too. I started by certainly celery and rocked it on tempting turquoise to create the effect. I just love how this looks! Then I used the happy birthday sentiment from the Think Happy Thoughts set. I just got this set because I thought it would go great with the circle and scallop punches (which it does) and now I can't stop using it. I think I used it on all the cards I made last night!! (which I will be posting as soon as I get time to photograph them!)

stamps: Always, Think Happy Thoughts
ink: Tempting turquoise, certainly celery
paper: tempting turquoise, taken with teal, certainly celery, whisper white, so saffron
other: ribbon from target dollar spot, scallop and circle punches

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Sweet spring pastels!

I loved this color combo so much I used it on both cards! It's so springy!

Both of these cards use the stamp set Always from SU. I bought this set a bit ago but haven't had much of a chance to use it so Thought I'd try it out. The bird in this set works really awesome using the rock-and-roll technique. Haven't done this? It's easy. First ink the entire stamp in the lighter of your two colors (I used apricot appeal). Then take it to the darker stamp pad (cameo coral), and instead of pressing it straight down, kind or roll it around, only inking the outside edges!! Make sense? It creates such a pretty effect!

Everything used on these cards is SU except the ribbon. For colors I used appricot appeal, cameo coral, and glorious green. All the stamps are from the Always stamp set except the "thank you" sentiment which is from Spring Solitude.

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