2012 Artisan Design Team Entries Blog Hop-Day 9

Welcome back to the 2012 Artisan Design Team Blog Hop! Today, we continue featuring our winning entries for the 2012 Artisan Design Team Contest with another card. If you are following the hop, then you probably arrived from Jeanna Bohanon's blog. Didn't you just love her project! She does some amazing things with My Digital Studio. We'll be featuring our winning projects for 10 days straight.

Here is my ninth project for the hop, the fifth of five cards that I submitted.

It doesn't look very fancy at this point; looks like a basic Happy Birthday card. But, if you open the flap of the little envelope and pull on the orange semi-circle, then you see the following.

Now it looks a little cuter! I used the petite pennants builder punch to make the banner, strung it on the white thread, and anchored the start of it inside the envelope using a circle of cardstock glued down. To put it in the envelope, I just folded the pennants back and forth together to make a stack, and kept the pull thread outside the envelope. It's hard to see in this picture, but the green banner has the word birthday stamped on it repeatedly.

And now, the inside of the card.

I repeated the pennants, but in a simpler format. Also, I used the word window punch and stamped the greeting through it onto the white background of the card. A little pen stitching with the white gel pen, and it was good to go!

SUPPLIES

Stamps: Pennant Parade, Party This Way

Ink: Classic Early Espresso, Baja Breeze, Peach Parfait, Wild Wasabi, Blushing Bride

Paper: Just Add Cake DSP, Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Peach Parfait, Wild Wasabi, Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Petite Pennants Builder Punch, 1 ¾” Scallop Circle Punch, Mini Square Envelope Whisper White, Uni-ball Signo Gel Pen, white crochet thread, ½” Circle Punch, 1/16” Hole Punch, 1 ¼” Circle Punch, 1” Circle Punch, Naturally Serif Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die, Word Window Punch

My 2012 Artisan Design Team Monthly projects will be posted on the 4th Monday-Tuesday of each month, so look for those beginning on August 27. And, Stampin' Up will be featuring another batch of projects on Facebook late each month.

Now, on to the next stop on the hop with Sarah! Thanks for stopping by.