Control Freaks Blog Tour: BIRTHDAYS!

Welcome to the Control Freaks monthly blog tour!

I am so excited to be joining the Control Freaks for another blog hop.  This month we are featuring Birthday projects, and everyone can use birthday cards, right?  You may have just visited the blog of the very talented Kelly Acheson. She’s always got such wonderful ideas and I love her work.  Be sure to scroll to the end of this post to follow along to your next stop.

Stampin’ UP! demonstrators that attended ON Stage in November received the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set as a free gift.  I’m hanging my head in shame because this is the first time I have actually used this awesome set.  I’ve paired it with the Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper and the Tutti-Fruitti Cards (FREE Sale-a-Bration item) to create some simple but swoon-worthy cards.

For each card, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink onto Basic Black card stock.  Next, I sprinkled on White Stampin’ Emboss powder and heat it with the heat tool until melted.  This makes the sentiment really pop on the wild background papers.

The papers in the Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper feature photographic imagery on one side of the paper and the other side is a bold, graphic design.  All of the colors paired well with the cute patterns of the Tutti-Fruitti Cards.  I added a bit of Lemon-Lime Twist 3/8″ Mini Striped Ribbon to a few of my cards also.

I’ll be sharing one more card in this series tomorrow, so be sure to subscribe for updates or bookmark this page for future reference.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Your next stop on this blog tour is the other Melissa, Melissa Davies.  I’m sure she’ll be blowing us away with another amazing project this month.