I kinda like this Kitchen Sink business.  Today’s card isn’t as busy, but I used just about every stamp set I could put my hands on.  I’ve just realized that at the end of the month, all of the Sale-a-bration stamp sets will become collector’s items!  It’s time to put them to work before that deadline:

• Cheep Talk, Happy Moments and On a Pedestal stamp sets
• Summer Sun, Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery and Whisper White card stock
• Rich Razzleberry and Bermuda Bay Classic ink pads;  White Craft ink pad
• Summer Sun, Certainly Celery, Bermuda Bay and Melon Mambo Stamp n Write markers
• Stamp-a-ma-jig; White embossing powder and heat tool; blender pen
  
• Scallop Trim and 3/4 inch square (retired) punches; hand-held rectangle punch (retired)
• Bermuda Bay polka dot ribbon; Big Shot and Perfect Dots embossing folder
  

I got a little carried away with the colors, didn’t I?  It’s tropical 🙂

Don’t miss the Sale-a-bration set Happy Moments.  I wasn’t taken with it when I first saw the SAB offering, but once I had it and started to play with it I changed my mind.  The images lend themselves to a lot of different occasions and techniques.  You heard it here, OK?

There are a couple of tricks I used here.  First, to make that Happy Birthday Banner you just stamp your message, cut it into a strip, and trim the corners with a square punch to make perfectly even points.  And no, I forgot to use the embossing buddy,  so yes, it has white “freckles”.    The other trick is to use a blender pen to selectively remove ink from a stamp.  I stamped the entire bird from Cheep Talk with Bermuda Bay ink, then used the blender pen to remove the color from his beak and legs.  I added the color I wanted with a marker.

It’s kind of a wild card, but I like it.  Hope it makes you smile.