Broadway Birthday Turnabout Card

Hello and welcome to my blog; today's post has been a challenge to get up.  I have been trying to upload the images to my computer since 6:15 am this morning.  My laptop has been a little ornery, but I have finally gotten everything uploaded and edited.  Today, I am going to share with you another card featuring the Broadway Birthday Stamp Set.  This card is a little different, I used the small images in the stamp set to create my very own turnabout style card.  I will be shooting a video later today and will add it to this post so that you can see just how I did that.  Here's a look at my card. 

For my card I picked some bright fun colors.  I mean come on it's a birthday card it should be bright and fun right?  I laid out my stamps on my stamparatus and created the layout so that I could use the turnabout style stamping to get all the fun colors and change things up.  The hardest part about this process is the actual making sure everything is lined up just right.  But once you do the cards are so much fun.   After editing the photos I realized I forgot one of the small stamps and could have used it to fill in some of the areas on my card.  Silly me; this is what happens when you aren't paying attention to your stamp sets.  

The small stamps in your sets really shouldn't be over looked you can use them to create some many different techniques and fun card designs.  I often use these small stamps to create a background piece for my card.  

As I mentioned before turnabout stamping is a great way to use these small images in a new way with a wonderful dramatic look.  It just takes a little playing to arrange all the images.  But, once you do you can create a colorful background just like I did here with just a few turns of the turnabout set up.  

The Broadway Birthday Stamp Set has great fun images that are great for this technique.  You have the balloon, party hat, candle, and ice cream cone.  All of which are easy to stamp by them self but when done in this style it creates a whole new world of creative expression.  

Once I had everything stamped I simply trimmed down my image and placed it on a piece of Gorgeous Grape cardstock that was cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and I glued the entire thing onto my A2 card base.  I then die cut the marquee from whisper white cardstock (this I used to stamp the sentiment) and one from Basic Black Cardstock (for the outside).  For the whisper white one I stamped the Wish image in Daffodil Delight and then used the dotted wish image (which represent the lights from the marquee) in Mango Melody.  Then I finished off the sentiment with the two stamps that read Make A, and it's your birthday in Gorgeous Grape ink.  I popped the whisper white layer up on dimensionals and adhered the basic black outside frame to the card front with a little liquid glue.  

I hope that you liked my card today and that you give this technique a try.  Again I will be doing the video and uploading it today, so be on the watch out for that as well.  If you are loving the Broadway Birthday Stamp Set and want to get your hands on it, please do so now.  This set and the matching dies are carrying over to the new 2019 -2020 Annual Catalog but will not be part of a cost saving bundle (like it is in the current 2018-2019 Annual Catalog).  So I would suggest ordering it now to save that extra 10% off both products.  Thanks for dropping by.  

Happy Stampin' 

Rick Adkins 

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Broadway Birthday Photopolymer Stamp Set [147067] $17.00	Broadway Birthday Photopolymer Bundle [148321] $41.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $9.75	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $7.75
Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146987] $8.50	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $8.50	Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad [147050] $7.50	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $7.50
Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $7.50	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [147094] $7.50	Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad [147099] $7.50	Stamparatus [146276] $49.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $4.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $4.00

Broadway Birthday Wish Card

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you a card that I made over the weekend using the Broadway Birthday Stamp Set and the Broadway Lights dies.  This is a fun set that shares the same drama as it's namesake.  You have a fun photopolymer stamp set that different birthday images, as well as some great sentiments, and the matching dies cut out must of the images as well as some fun marquees, and a great large Wish sentiment wish I used today.  Here's a look at my card.

As you can see on my card I used the large wish die to create the focal point and the main image of the card.  This adds to the drama of the gold foiled paper that's in the background.  This fun paper in the background came from the Broadway Bound Speciality Designer Series Paper which is retiring but still available on the last chance list when I looked last night.  This entire suite that was in the 2018 Annual catalog reminded me so much of when I went to New York back in 1995 and spent the weekend there.  Well actually we where there five days and I loved it.  I got to watch seven Broadway shows in five days, which by the way is no easy task.  If you have never been to New York and watch a Broadway show I totally encourage you to do so, its the must wonderful thing in the world.  Okay so back to the card.

So to finish off the sentiment I used two more sentiments from the set, to read It's Your Birthday Make A Wish.  I did the two smaller sentiments in clear embossing powder and used some deco foil and ran it through my laminatior.  This allowed me to transfer the foil to the cardstock.  You do have to be careful when doing this to make sure you get a good impression to start with.  If you didn't heat set all the embossing powder or missed a spot it will not transfer the foil.  That's what happened here with the make.  I didn't have a good image and it left open areas, which doesn't bother me because this is a handmade card and not from Hallmark, so the little imperfections are okay.

By the way if you order this set now it's still a cost saving bundle and you can save 10%.  This set is carrying over but the bundle is not.  So that means that if you don't get it now you will have to pay full price for both the stamp set and dies and order under two different item numbers instead of the item number for the bundle.  By the way the Broadway Bound Stamp Set and Bundle are my featured products of the week this week.  This means that I will be sharing with you a couple more projects showing you different ways to use this set this week.

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Happy Stampin' 

Rick Adkins 

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Broadway Birthday Photopolymer Stamp Set [147067] $17.00	Broadway Birthday Photopolymer Bundle [148321] $41.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $7.75	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045] $8.50
Broadway Bound Speciality Designer Series Paper [146277] $14.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $9.00	Heat Tool [129053] $30.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $6.00
Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130] $5.00	Big Shot [143263] $110.00	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] $40.00	Broadway Lights Framelits Dies [146317] $29.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $4.00	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $4.00