Patterned Balloon Birthday

Here's a fun way to "color" in stamped images--stamp the image on your card, then stamp it onto a piece of patterned paper, cut it out, and glue the patterned image onto the original image.

This is the fourth card that we did at my birthday stamp-a-stack. We used the Melon Mambo Patterns DSP paper, black and white card stock, the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set, and some black gingham ribbon.

Crazy for Cupcakes

Here's another card that I made today that was inspired by the Clean and Simple challenge on splitcoast. This fit with the challenge to make a clean and simple birthday card. I think this has a clean look, but it wasn't as simple as others because it uses a few strips of designer series paper and the stamp requires coloring too. It was still pretty easy to make.

I used the Crazy for Cupcakes set and colored it with Stampin' Write markers. If I had it to do again, I may switch the icing to yellow, green just doesn't seem quite right (but I wanted to stick with just purple & green). Colors are old olive, certainly celery, orchid opulence, and rich razzleberry which all match the Cottage Wall DSP. I love how the SU! catalog tells you which colors match the designer series paper.