Life is Beautiful Card

This is a card I am doing for a shoebox swap in Nashville on Wednesday.  I will be swapping this card with 39 other demonstrators.  I had to prepare 20 complete cards and bring all the supplies to create 20 more.

Here are the supplies I used:

Life is Beautiful Stamp Set Click here

Occasional Quotes (Level 3) Click here

Lap of Luxury Designer Series Paper Click Here

Big Shot Click Here

Top Note Die Click Here

Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder Click Here

Concord Crush Ribbon 

Card Stock Used:

Concord Crush

Pretty in Pink

Very Vanilla

Basic Gray

Punches:

Decorative Label Click Here

Wide Oval Punch Click Here

Scallop Trim Punch  Click Here

Concord Crush Ink pad

Cut a 8.5x11 piece of Concord Crush Card Stock in half.  (Cut at 5.5" on the 11" side).

Cut two (2) very vanilla topper to 4" x 5.25" and run thru the big shot with vintage wallpaper embossing folder.

Sponge around the edges with Concord Crush ink.  Cut a Basic Gray card stock to 4" x 5.25". 

Cut different size strips of the Lap of Luxury DSP.  I cut strips anywhere from 3/4" to 1-1/4" pieces.

Take a 3/4" strip of pretty in pink card stock and punch using the scallop trim border punch.

Adhere the Lap of Luxury DSP strips and the pretty in pink punched piece to the Basic Gray card stock in a pattern you like.

I like to take Dotto (which is a temporary adhesive) and arrange strips to my liking and then adhere them down with a snail to the Basic Gray card stock.

Run your decorated paper thru the Big Shot with the Top Note Die.

Adhere the top note to the embossed and sponged Very Vanilla card stock with dimensionals.

Punch from a scrap piece of Very Vanilla card stock using the decorative label punch.

Stamp the Life is Beautiful image on a scrap Very Vanilla and punch out with the wide oval punch.

Sponge both punched pieces with Concord Crush.

Adhere the decorative label punched piece to the bottom right of the top note piece.

Cut a piece of Concord Crush ribbon 7".

Adhere the ribbon around the top note card as shown.

Add the Life is Beautiful punch with dimensionals.

Adhere the top note to the Concord Crush card with snail.

Take the other Very Vanilla card and stamp sentiment and design filigree stamp in Concord Crush.

Adhere to the inside of the card.

Sign the back.

Now "Life is Beautiful"

Enjoy!!