Moving Along with the Times - My Challenge

It's my turn to set the challenge at  Moving Along with the Times and I'm asking you to share your projects witIh the theme of Girls' Birthday any age up to 21.  It's my beautiful daughter's birthday this week and so it seemed like an appropriate theme.  She's 19 and so I needed it to be girly, but grown up too.  I've also made a matching tag.

I started by adding some texture lines by using my Stampin' Up! Simply Scored scoring tool to the base card of whisper white thick cut at 11" x 5.5" and scored on the landscape at 5.5".  I also die cut a square framing using the stitched shape framelits and layering squares both available from my Stampin' Up! online shop.  I cut the stitched shape first and then positioned a smaller layering square inside it to cut the aperture.  I've then fussy cut some of the beautiful pearlised flowers from a sheet of  Share What You Love specialty designer series paper and layered them onto the frame.  I used my Stamparatus to stamp the happy birthday which is from Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set.  I positioned the stamp in the frame, before removing the frame and using the Stamparatus to make sure it stamped exactly where I wanted it before repositioning the frame which I adhered with mini dimensionals.  As you know gentle reader I love bling so I've added some rhinestones including a few left over retired black stones.  I stamped a frame with Old Olive ink from the same stamp set and added the 'gorgeous'.  I used the classic label punch to cut the frame shape and then just snipped off one end to add it to the card.

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The tag was made in the same way. It is a large tag so to make the tag shape I just cut a triangle off one corner then laid it onto the other corner to cut along the edge of the triangle to make the sides the same.  It means you can make a tag any size.  Punches are fabulous, but this is perfect for larger tags.

Don't forget to come join us at MAWTT for the challenge we'd love to see your makes.

Also just in case you haven't heard the new 2018 - 2019 Stampin' Up! annual catalogue has launched and you can browse it online on my website  if you click hover on shop and click the catalogues button, or you can contact me for a copy of the catalogue @ zoetant@live.co.uk

Thanks for popping by
Zoe x

Moving Along with the Times - Focal Point Sentiments

Stampin' Up! Happy Birthday Die

Over at Moving Along with the Times it's Team A's turn again and Christine has set the challenge of making you sentiment the focal point of your card design.  No images are required for this challenge which is open to all to join in.  The DT have created some fantastic inspiration for you so please do visit or join in we'd love to see what you come up with.

For my DT card I've cut various shapes using the Stampin' Up! Stitched Shapes dies and also the Layering Square dies to create the white frame in the middle by placing a plain square die inside the stitched shape square and cutting both at the same time taking out the centre of the outer die.

I've also used various shades of blue with one pop of pear pizzazz card stock.  I've layered the die cuts using glue dots and stampin' dimensional to give depth and then used mini glue dots folded over to adhere the die cut Happy Birthday, which is again blue rather than black which it looks like as the light is awful here today in Lincolnshire.

A handful of pacific point enamel dots finishes my design and also hides a nail imprint on one square that I managed to create when removing the die cut from the cutting plate. There is always a solution to a hiccup in paper craft don't you think?

Join us for our challenge over at MAWTT.  You won't be late like me as I've been busy taking Olivia to university.

Happy Saturday

Zx