What to do with Bird Ballad Cards?

I ordered the Bird Ballad Laser-Cut Cards & Tin way back during our demonstrator preorder in May of this year.  What's a demonstrator preorder(?), you ask.  Well, simply, it's a benefit you receive when you sign up for your Creativity Kit through Stampin' Up!  Once you're a demonstrator you get to order new products a month before they go live to customers.  It's a really cool opportunity to get to play with lots of really neat stuff and share with other demonstrators your ideas as well as get new ideas. Interested?  

Just head to my website by clicking on the catalog to your left.  Click 'Join' and then start assembling your kit.  You choose everything you want and nothing you don't want.  And guess what!  There's no obligation, although once you get your kit and see the world of creativity it opens up for you, you may just want to start exploring.  That's what I did 14 years ago.  It's been a journey that has changed me forever.  I've learned so much, found my inner creative self I never knew existed and met so many wonderful people along the way.  So check it out, explore what you could have in your own personalized kit today.

But back to where I began...I bought this tin of cards and envelopes almost six months ago, and I sat down the other day to accept the challenge of "what do I make with these cards?".  This is what I came up with and it was uber simple!  I adhered a piece of Garden Green card stock to the back of the laser-cut front using Tombow Multipurpose Glue and a sponge.  I grabbed my Dandelion Wishes stamp set and in keeping with my green theme I stamped the large 3 dandelion stamp in Garden Green Classic Ink onto a piece of Very Vanilla Thick Card Stock and ran my piece through the Big Shot using the largest Stitched Shapes Circle Die.  I layered my stamped image onto a piece of Copper Foil cut with the largest Layering Circles Scallop Die.  I popped this up using dimensionals and then added the (oh so pretty) Toile Tidings Enamel Dots (Garden Green, of course) to the centers of my dandelions. These dots have shiny, sparkly glitter inside and they're beautiful!

On the inside of my card I cut another circle using the Stitched Shapes Circle Framelits and stamped my message in our new Copper Delicata Ink.  I layered that onto a piece of Garden Green Cardstock cut out with the Layering Circles Scallop Framelits and glued my message to my card with Snail Adhesive.  Then I used the little seed wisps as accents, stamped in Copper Ink.

Wala, finished!  Easy peasy and so fun!  You should get your own tin (includes 12 cards with coordinating envelopes) and start creating today 😉