The Write Stuff

A big congrats to Brenda the newest Featured Stamper!  I chose THIS card of hers to case. I kept the pocket w/ insert & birthday theme, but I used different images, different colors & I left off the cute kitty in her picture. 

Welcome to the May Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is My Girl (feminine card)! The Design Team has the added challenge of making either a pocket, special fold card or a gift box. You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog.  We have something new…a “Stamp of the Month”. Each month a different image will be 50% off. This month- it’s the Aprons. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Clearance Stamps, too. And as always, we have a  have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player. 

For my project, I made a crossover pocket card. It’s actually only a pocket, as it doesn’t open, with an insert for the greeting. I had this green dp with flowers & glittered centers and I thought it would work well for the front of the pocket. I added a mottled orange dp and borders of the die cut Daisy Border. I used a portion of the Daisy Garden die for the faux belt across the front and added a glitter die cut buckle to finish the belt.

For the insert, I used a white panel I had die cut and cut the top off in order to add the Celebrate die cut on top. It was die cut once out of polka dot orange dp and 3 times out of heavy white. I attached the orange to one of the white cuts, stacked the other 2 white cuts together and glued them with the top of the insert in between. The cute little Daisy is new and I stamped, colored & fussy cut it. After attaching it, I stamped the Special Day greeting over it and the big Happy Birthday below it. A couple of orange die cut corners to the lower edge. These are the Copics I used on the flower.

If you’d like the instructions for the pocket, here are the measurements. (Click any pictures to make them larger.) After I cut the green flower print dp, I also cut an orange layer the same size then trimmed them both down to layer on the white card. Another orange piece of dp was added to the inside of the pocket & after these were attached, I added a strip of double sided tape across the lower edge & down the inside of the top right side of the pocket to permanently close it. The insert simply slips inside the pocket.

Please be sure to stop by and comment on all the DT blogs to increase your chances of winning! And we have a special guest this month…
Isha Gupta

• Jeanne Jachna 
• Jenny Gropp
• Julie Warner (you are here
• Karen Amidon
• Marybeth Lopez
• Miriam Napier
• Vickie Zimmer

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

 

Daisy 1358E	Everyday Words small horiz 469J	Happy Birthday 093D	Celebrate die 037ED
Daisy Border die 051JD	Daisy Garden die 052KD	Floral Frame & Embellishment dies 022RD	SEI -Sunny Day paper
Memento Inks	Copic Sketch Markers	Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles 2 S5-211	Staples 110# White Card Stock