Birthday Card

Scallops and a vertical Happy Birthday make
a lovely card design.
The stamp is from Penny Black,
scrapbook paper from DCWV
and the embossing folder from Sizzix.

I used a 4.25 x 5.5 inch piece of
white card stock for the embossing.
After embossing it was glued to the
card base.

Five Designs To Use With Scallops

These are fairly simple cards to make. I cut
out a bunch of scallops from coordinating paper
and start playing.

The dies in the above card are from Spellbinders.

This card uses Spellbinders dies, some from Quickuts
and a Sizzix embossing folder.

Stilll Playing With Those Scallops

I love the color combination's of this K & Company Floral Dream stack.

The edges of the scallops and even the holes on the center die cut have been sponged with Ranger Archival coffee ink. This gives much more depth and definition to each scallop.

The largest scallops have been cut using a Sizzix extended cut die.

The two smaller sized scallops have been cut using Quickuts extended dies.

The center piece with the "ribbon" woven through the holes is from a Spellbinders die. All dies were cut with my trusty and dependable Wizard, by Spellbinders. Which they are no longer selling as they have come out with a new bigger machine. I am very sad about this. My stout little Wizard is so portable and remarkably tough. I have worn all the paint off the throat because I use it so much. There are only a very few dies from any company that my trusty Wizard will not cut cleanly. Sometimes I really hate change.

Valentines Galore

More Valentines and scallops. Here is a little bit different take on the designing with scallops thing.

I took a piece of 4.25 x 5.5 card stock, which is also known as A2 size or quarter sheet, and dry embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder. Pleas note that if you try this with a regular sized Cuttlebug embossing folder it will be smaller than the size of an A2 card base. Grrrrr.... why did they make them that size? It would have taken no effort whatsoever to make them A2 size. The result of that mistake is that I search high and low for the Sizzix as I love the size of the finished product. OK, rant over.

I attached the embossed paper to my card front.

Now layer those scallops. Depending on the papers used and the desired finished look, you can sponge the edges or not.



I printed the Happy Valentines Day on a coordinating sheet from the K and Company Floral Dreams stack. The 12 x 12 sheet of paper was cut down to 8.5 x 11 and run through my printer.


For some of the greetings the phrase was attached to cream paper, cut with a scallop edge decorative scissors and sponged.


The pictures are a little dark. It was the only way I could get the lovely dry embossing to show up.


Scallop die cuts are by Sizzix (largest scallop) and Quickuts.

And We Know

Such a beautiful scripture. There are so many of these stamps available at Our Daily Bread Designs. It is well worth the time to view all that they have available.

The design begins with scrapbook paper from DCWV attached to the front of an A2 card base. Text weight black paper was used to create the scallops that were punched with an EK Success Punch Around the Page set.

The corner punch used on the cream cardstock of the scripture phrase is echoed on the one plain corner of the black layer. Another echo is found on the left side of the card is more of the scallops and a straight edges. This pulls the whole design together.