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poppystamps Whittle Panda Pickup Kit Step Card…

Hi everyone! How do birthdays look at your house?  Pretty much Panda-monium around here! lol  Look at this adorable shiny black pickup and friends though! So cute! I think I’m going to have to save this for my husband’s next birthday. 

I started with a 5 ½ in x 11 in piece of cardstock.  Then it’s just a simple cut and some score lines to create the fold.  Email me if you want me to post a how to… I used to make these a lot!

Here it is flat… send in a square envelope or the catalog size envelope that is rectangle.

A close up of the panda on the right step.

I die cut the pandas in white cardstock and colored them with a black copic marker. The details die cut into the images and you can stick a piece of scrap paper to help protect the white areas.  slick!

A Fineliner pen for their eyes. 

Panda on the left will hold something so I put in a heart and he’s holding a balloon. 

I had to cut the pickup out of Memory Box Glossy Black cardstock and silver mirror cardstock for the wheels and bumpers. 

A piece of acetate I hand cut to place behind the window.  

I used the poppystamps Whittle Cloud Border for the clouds.

I used the poppystamps Word Balloons for the sentiment that comes with the Whittle Panda Pickup kit. 

This is all I’ve gotten made this week.  Sometimes I can be so slow!  Well, I was just playing and having fun! lol

I also pieced the pandas from white and black cardstock and that worked great too.  If you do that, use a fine sanding block or the Tombow sander that looks like an eraser to smooth your scissor cut areas.  It works great!

ok – I’ll stop talking now and get busy on my next card!  I was inspired by a flower card in the new Birch Press Design look book!

Have a great rest of the week and see you here again soon!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Here’s the products I used to make this card…

Poppy Stamps Whittle Panda Pickup Kit…
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Poppystamps – 2380 Word Balloons…
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Poppystamps – 2318 Whittle Cloud…
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Memory Box – SH44004 Black Glossy…
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Hammermill WHITE 100 LB SMOOTH…
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TE Premium Cardstock
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Bazzill Foil Cardstock – Silver 12×12
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Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
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Fiskars Non-Stick Titanium Softgrip…
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Scor-Tape; Scor Tape
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double-sided tape holder – holds…
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Gutermann Extra-Strong Thread – 110…
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cards · copics · Family · Memory Box · Paper Smooches · Penny Black · Perfect Layers Tools · Poppystamps · Promarkers · rubber stamps · Step card · Summer

Memory Box and Bildmalarna Birthday cards…

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Birthday fun with a step card again…for some reason, I just kinda drift toward this fold!  See that cute little kitty?  They have a black outdoor kitty at their house… so cute just sitting there watching for Henry and the other kids!

Grandchildren… so precious.  I still remember the day we met Henry.  He was two and from Ukraine.  You know I rarely post family things because that would be a blog in itself!  Six years ago Henry was the first of four to be adopted internationally into our family.  Oh, the excitement of waiting for them to get to the waiting area of the airport!  He had to be scared!  So many people waiting to welcome him to his forever home!

Precious memories.  I’ll post one picture that I love so much… Henry meeting Grandpa Tim and granddaughter Attie in the background.  Henry hugged Tim for 5 minutes… he already sensed that he was getting an awesome grampy!  : )

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Time moves on and he’s 8 already! Since then,  Anya came from Ukraine,  two more from Bulgaria and then you know the story….pregnant and Cedryk was born.  He just turned 2 and he loves tractors and Curious George!

So I had to use an image with a little blonde boy on a tractor!

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I used Mimo on a Tractor from Bildmalarna, HERE and  colored with Promarkers and Copics. The number 2 is from an old Quickutz die set.  My Perfect Layers Mini rulers and Mat to cut the ‘perfect’ black border around the image… links below and in the sidebar.

On Henry’s card, the It’s Your Day sentiment is from an old set by Hero Arts and the sun is a medium EK Success punch.  I die cut the trees in green and in brown.  I clipped off the leaves on the brown one and glued the brown over the green then… like I did this tree in this video…

This video and card were originally posted HERE.

Linking up to some challenges…

Dies R Us – Birthday (first card)

Milk Coffee Challenge – use two die cuts or more (first card)

A Blog Named Hero – Die A Little (or a lot) – sentiment is Hero Arts (first card)

Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes

Stamp and Create – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today!  It’s always so fun to share with you.  Scroll down to my Perfect Paper Crafting post and comment for a chance to win, if you haven’t already… the Crazy Dayz hop has been extended….the last day is Aug. 11th now!

ttul!

Dies and Supplies I used on these cards…

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The Give a way Winner and more cards…

AND… the winner is….

Lynn Gauthier!!!!

CLAP! CLAP! Congrats Lynn!!!  YAY for you!

I had Breanna pick a number between 1 and 63 and she picked 42!  Congrats Lynn!  Send me an email with your mailing information!

I tried to add names… for some reason you all didn’t put your names in for each thing, so I had to add a bunch.  Lesson learned…links must be too big a pain…stick with comments I guess!

THANK YOU Cindy from Starlitstudio!

I started posting the cards I designed and taught at the Great Yosemite Stamp Escape a week ago… eek… time gets away so fast!  HERE’S the post with the Sunflower cards and HERE’S the post from a couple weeks ago telling about the weekend and about the process of getting ready for the classes.

Today I’m posting the other three cards…

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‘fore you’ – layering up dies to create a scene.  Love making scenes!  Memory Box dies and stamps and poppystamps dies.

I had the ladies cut out the golf cart in white cardstock and color the pieces with markers. Easy and so cute!

 

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more Memory Box and poppystamps dies…the Memory Box Chic Chevron makes an appearance on the panel.  Inked with Mowed Lawn Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool.  Some spatters and sequins add to the fun of the design!

Linking up this card to the Keep it Simple Challenge – Splatters

Weekly-Favorite

YAY!  My Pavilia Bloom card was in the favorites at SCS on Sunday!  Thank you ladies!

 

 

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I had the ladies emboss the flower just like I did in this video HERE.  Then it was inked with Dusty Concord Distress ink and the mini ink blending tool.

 

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Another sweet Summer scene with Memory Box and poppystamps dies.  So fun to make!  I love step cards!

Linking my card to the Seize your Birthday Challenge – Summer Time

My card was a winner there too!  Thank you ladies!

STB Challenge Winner

Enjoy the Summer days!  We’re sure having some beautiful ones here in Iowa.  Love it when it’s not so hot and humid!   I hope to hop on my bike for a bit today!  : )

Thanks for visiting!  Love hearing from you and hope you enjoyed my cards today!

Dies, stamps and supplies I used to create these cards…

Birthday · cards · copics · Distress Ink coloring · Fall · LOVE · Magnolia · Memory Box · Perfect Layers Tools · rubber stamps · Spring · Step card · Valentine

Some of My Favorite Creations for 2013…

Debby has a linky party for your Favorite Five creations for 2013 going on HERE…  I tried to keep it to five but it didn’t work.  I stopped at 12! lol

Catered Crop has a remembering 2013 linky party HERE

AND… I started a Facebook page for my blog… click over to like it if you have time! 

Welcome Winter ATC’s

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Tilda with Mittens

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Love Snowman

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Tilda with Heart Arrows

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Tilda Hiding Heart

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Meadow Bird with a Spring Song

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Jasper Leaves

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Mannequin in the Rain

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Tilda with Lace Flag

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Marvelous Bridge Step card

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Just a Note

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Chess Tilda

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Happy New Year to you friends, kindred stampers and papercrafters!  TFL!  Looking forward to more in 2014!  Be watching…Memory Box new designs coming soon!  Blog Blitz starts the 6th!

cards · Christmas · Distress Ink coloring · Magnolia · Memory Box · rubber stamps · Step card · Tilda's Town

Magnolia, Tilda’s Town, Christmas Challenge…

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‘O Holy Night’…looking at this card IRL takes me right to the true meaning of Christmas!   I love this Nativity Collection from Magnolia Rubber Stamps!  Edwin the Wiseman is colored with Distress markers on Canson watercolor paper and has a sparkly coat and crown from the Wink of Stella Clear Brush Glitter marker. I love the Star of Wonder Memory Box dies cut from the Silver Coredinations glitter card-stock too!

Here’s a close up of Edwin…

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The Challenge at Tilda’s Town for this week, starting today is Christmas!

Click over to Tilda’s Town ChallengesHERE and enjoy the inspiration from the Design Team and enter the weekly challenge!  We’d love to have you!

Each week there is a random winner, chosen by Inlinkz, for a $10 gift certificate to Tilda’s Town.com!

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Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at Tilda’s Town.com and live the magic.

I used A Merry Christmas text stamp  HERE, Edwin as Wiseman HERE, Jacob the Camel HERE and Paradise Palm HERE.   Star of Wonder dies HERE.

Challenges I’m linking to…
Cute Card Thursday – Christmas Catch up
Magnolia Down Under – Anything Goes
You, Me and Magnolia – Christmas
Time for Magnolia – Christmas in Anything but Square

Thanks for visiting my blog today!  Always love having you ‘over’!  I’m still hoping to get a few more Christmas cards made!  Last minute me!  Oh wait, I better do some shopping too! lol

Take care and ttul!

cards · copics · Magnolia · Memory Box · rubber stamps · Step card · Tilda's Town

Magnolia, Tilda’s Town, On the Road Tilda…

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Hi everyone!  Wow!  Time Flies!  I’ve been gone and now it’s time to switch gears from what I’ve been doing!  That’s a challenge! lol  I’ve missed you all!!!

Time for this week’s challenge at Tilda’s Town challenges blog.  We’re celebrating ‘Special Occasions’…. hope you can get inky and play along!

I love this new Tilda from the Sea Breeze Collection… you’ll find her at Tilda’s Town. com.

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Click over to Tilda’s Town ChallengesHERE and enjoy the inspiration from the Design Team and enter the weekly challenge!  We’d love to have you!

Each week there is a random winner, chosen by Inlinkz, for a $10 gift certificate to Tilda’s Town.com!

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Tilda’s Town is a most magical shop specializing in Magnolia Stamps. Over 1,100 stamps in stock at all times. Tilda’s Town offers FREE worldwide shipping on every order, every day. You can also save up to an additional 20% on your purchase by using one of the famous coupon codes. Shop at Tilda’s Town.com and live the magic.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope your Summer has been good!