I know it’s winter but the weather here in Sydney has just been fabulous – getting a little cool but still lovely and sunny so I thought I’d use my latest favourite stamp set to grab hold of whatever bit of fresh summery feeling is left to create a card that’s might cheer someone up.

When I received my new 2007-2008 Stampin’ Up! Idea Book and Catalogue at the end of March, there was one stamp set that I was desperate to get over anything else. Now anyone who really knows me will know that I love vintage but this set was just so cool and trendy and I could see that it would be very versatile for boy, girl, woman, masculine cards, scrapbooking layouts, whatever. Actually now that I think of it, I might set myself the challenge to use the same card to make something totally different with it. Okay, so here’s the first thing that I made (at home because I did use it at the Stampin’ Up! Convention last week): Actually what pleased me most about making this card was using my punches. When I first started card making many many years ago, I could never understand geometric punches, I always went out and bought punches that were in the shape of actual items (mainly lots of different flowers), but now I have found the versatility of geometric shapes and I love them! In this card I’ve used two punches, a large oval punch which I used to punch out the flower petals and I also used the 1 1/4″ circle punch to punch out the ‘smile’ stamp and then adhered it to the centre of the metal rimmed tag. Sure I could have stamped straight into the tag but I can never do that so that it’s even so I find it much easier to stamp, punch then adhere. So to make the flower petals I simply stamped the spotted tag image from the Be Happy stamp set seven times using the Rose Red inkpad onto the Rose Red cardstock and then punched out the ovals in the middle of the tag images. This is one of the reasons I find this set so versatile, just because the image is of a tag, it doesn’t mean that’s the only way it can ever be used.
Here’s the complete list of products that I used to make this card:

All products by Stampin’ Up! and available for purchase through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com

Card adapted from a Stampin’ Up! magazine available only to Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. Card made by Angela Sargeant.

Be Happy stamp set
On The Spot background stamp
Tempting Turquoise cardstock and matching inkpad
Certainly Celery cardstock and matching inkpad
Rose Red cardstock and matching inkpad
Sweet Shop Ribbon Originals (5 different ribbons in this pack)
1 1/4″ circle punch
Large oval punch
Metal Rimmed Tag (small)
Sticky Strip (to adhere ribbon)
SNAIL Adhesive to adhere everything else