Ahh, now is the time of children's birthdays and school holidays ... the days are longer and our girls need something to keep them occupied. I may not be able to post on my blog so often, or I will have to do so at night... Any way I wanted to share this cute card I made for my daughter's friend. It features 3 of the 4 animals in the Animal Stories stampset.
There is the pink elephant, blowing love hearts from his trunk.
The taken with Teal Whale balancing his love hearts on his tail.
And the white owl with his wobbly eyes. He is just so cute!
Inside the card I took direction from my 6 (almost 7) year old expert as to where to stamp the animals and what to say...
What I used to make this card:Stampsets: Animal stories, sweet birthday, Best yet.
Cardstock: Taken with teal, whisper white.
Ink: taken with teal, Pink passion, whisper white.
Markers: so saffron, taken with teal, rose red, bordering blue.
Punches and tools: 1 3/4 " circle, word window punch, eyelet border punch.
Mini Glue dots (stampin' Up), gold hearts and wobbly eyes (generic).
You can see from the side that I have layered the photo collage between the two layers of the card and punched a hole with my crop a dile through all three layers then tied it with some real red ribbon.
You open the card to see the full sheet of photos - my collage of pictures is from different months throughout the year. (You have to love digital photos for this and the program I use is very easy - I did this in less than 20 minutes, promise).
I have used several sized circle punches: 1 1/4 ", 1 3/8" and 1 3/4" ... why are they in inches? so hard to remember which is larger, and by how much larger. 
Once again I have rock and rolled the butterfly in pink pirouette and riding hood red and used a brad to hold the buttlerfly in its place on the damask medallion on whisper white cardstock. 
The sentiment is from Best yet. The Best yet stampset is a hostess gift, you can only get it if you, and your friends host a workshop - either at your home or a virtual workshop (where you place orders to the value of $300). I love this little set it has words for nearly every occasion. I have used it constantly on my cards.
I like to use the circle punch and mat it with a darker coloured cardstock. To give some depth I have overstamped the sentiment with a pale pink pirouette damask stamp. The same one I have stamped in the background. The ribbon is Riding hood Red striped grosgrain. I chose these colours because they match with the Bella Rose designer series patterned papers.
What you need to make this card:
This just wasnt enough patterned paper so I have cut out six large ovals from the Patterns designer series paper in baja breeze, using both sides for variety. 
It is difficult to see in the picture. But the bird, flower, sentiment and heart are all stamped on gloss white paper. It gives the card a lovely glossy dimension (just like a bought one!) ... 
Pretty isn't it? When you open it up - out pops a scene of stamped images. 
You can have words and birds, flowers and hearts or anything attached to the walls of your scene. This one reminds me of a little girls pink wall papered bedroom.
I have used the Always Designer series paper to line the card and the matching Always stampset and Enjoy stampset too.
I enjoyed adding accessories such as brads, dazzling diamonds glitter and crystal effects to the items in the scene. I've used the colours: tangerine tango, rose red and perfect plum with lots of rocking and rolling of the stamps in the different ink colours. 
The Always flower is topped with a punched out circle which has been covered in crystal effects and sprinkled heavily with dazzling diamonds for the added bling. I am thinking of making one of these for a special christmas card with Christmas trees and snow ...
Enjoy!
You score both pieces of cardstock at 1.5 and 3cm from both ends then stick the ends together. When you push the two sides together the card becomes a 3D "view box". 
A touch of velum on the small cut out flower and a silver brad.
The sentiment is from the hostess stampset: Best yet.
I have wrapped some lovely Pacific Point ribbon around the black cardstock. Tied a ribbon bow.
Here it is a little closer ... I have brayered pink pirouette, then pale plum and finally perfect plum in layers onto gloss white cardstock. The colours blend so beautifully and you can not determine the outcome, time and drying and chance play a great part.
My background stamp is Tres Chic, stamped in perfect plum on perfect plum cardstock.
When you are six years old, visiting and meeting up with friends is a very special event!
Scrapbook pages kind of evolve for me ... I was thinking a garden theme of rolling green hills with pretty pink and blue flowers. I have used the textured incolour cardstocks of Kiwi Kiss and pink Pirouette as a base.
The Title is made using the big deal alphabet stampset, paper pieced and using the the Raspberry tart Double sided paper. I couldn't decide whether to use a pink butterfly or a blue one ... but settled on the pink eventually.
The Glad we're friends is a hostess stampset (Best yet - my new favourite) ... mounted on a circle scallop of DS paper to link the pink ribbon and paper strip.