Perennial Birthday in Black White and Red

Hi!  Welcome to my blog.  Today, I’ve been doing the “dotting i’s and crossing t’s” stuff.  Don’t get me wrong — I love that part too.  I was just saying to an Australian friend this morning, I love my job!  It could be “just” creating — I love that!  But for me, an added bonus is all of the additional things that I get to do and learn because of the way I choose to run my business.  What does that mean?  It means I’m a girl who needs to use lots of different parts of her brain.  I’m lucky to have most of my needs met right here!!  For my “you’ve been a good girl, now you get to create time”, I played with Perennial Birthday in Black White and Red.

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Perennial Birthday in Black White and Red

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I have wanted to play with this set as soon as I saw it in the Occasions Catalog.

But, I kept getting distracted by other things I needed to do first.

To keep that from happening today, I put the stamp set on the top of the stack.

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Though I usually talk to you about my creations from the bottom up,

the reality is that I usually create from the top down.

Here, I started with a Stitched Shapes Whisper White circle.

After inking the stamp with flowers, leaves and berries with Versamark,

I used my Stampin’ Write Markers to color the outlines.

Once I stamped, I heat embossed in Clear.

The other flower is a single, so I inked in Versamark and then Cherry Cobbler

before heat embossing.

Tip: Be sure to clean your stamp between inking so that

you don’t get Cherry Cobbler on your Versamark pad.

Next, I used light and dark Stampin’ Blends to color in the flowers and the leaves.

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Moving down, I added a Basic Black Scallop Circle.

Then, I tucked in Garden Green leaf punches.

Next, I added a swirl of Mini Sequin Trim.

Under that, I added a Real Red layer with a stripe of Pick a Pattern washi.

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Perennial Birthday in Black White and Red

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And going back to the beginning, I used a Basic Black base

layered with a piece of Petal Passion designer paper.

To finish, I colored some White Perfect Accents and used them to add splashes of color.

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Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my Perennial Birthday Black White and Red card!

See below for product details.

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Details HERE

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I’d love to be your demonstrator if you live in the United States!

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