Another wonderful friend's birthday

I am so lucky to have made some great friends through our mutual love of all things crafty and Stampin' Up.  There is something about papercrafting that bonds people together.  Funny how an incidental comment made about stamping at work  can change your whole world.  

Another one of my wonderful friends recently celebrated her birthday and this is the card I made for her.  It uses some of my favourite First Edition paper that I just cannot part with and  Summer Silhouettes stamp set. 

 
A little bit of cutting out required, but I actually find it quite therapeutic. 

My mother in law celebrated her birthday recently and this is the card I made for her.  I wanted something crisp and clean so chose a white background with a border panel.  I used the dandelion from Summer Silhouettes with a bit of sponging on the edges for effect. 

I was a bit disappointed with the spacing on the bottom of the panel, but happy with the top.  The photo doesn't really do this justice, but the colours used were More Mustard and Rich Razzleberry - a nice combination.  

Triple Time Stamping

Now if you are like me and trawl the internet looking at other people's cards you will probably have seen lots of cards made using this technique, and possibly even a card that looks very similar to this.   Yes, I did copy her card pretty much the same, so much so that I had to order a stamp set especially for the leaf.  I tried to use leaves or grasses that I owned, but nothing looked as good as Sandi's card.  The original card was made by Sandi MacIver and here is a link to her website. 

Our version didn't use the extra colour flower of blue and we added a ribbon instead of a sentiment, but still it's very similar.  

Triple time stamping is where you cut out all the layers you need (and you do use a lot of cardstock with this one) and then you partly stick the white layers together and then stamp all three layers in one go.  Some of the images get a little blurred on the edges, especially the bottom layer, but most of this gets covered up with the, in this case, Crumb Cake matt layer.  After stamping is finished you just undo the white layers, add in the matt layers and then tizzy it up with sentiment, bling or ribbon.  Another clever technique to try.