While I was out of town visiting my 92 (almost 93!) years young Grannie, I missed out on participating in the the #GDP428 Case the Designer challenge where they featured using circle/round objects as a trio focal point. However, one of the participants, Yvonne Spikmans, made the perfect card for me to use as a CASE (copy and selectively edit) for a birthday card for my brother who is a DiscJockey on RadioFreePensacola and I made a second card from this inspiration using the Carnival Treats Doughnut set. Check out the Challenge and play along here http://www.global-design-project.com/.
So on this 1st card I was creating with my older Brother in mind to let him know how proud I am of him and his dedication to his passion and hobby of spinning vinyl. His radio show will only use vinyl records and he typically showcases songs from the good ole days (ie, before the 90s).
For his birthday card (Feb birthday) I took a little artistic license.
I used the Doughnut stamp with momento black ink, rotated and stamped again for a solid black circle with the white center. I then decided to add texture (hard to see in the photo) by using a stamp in the sweet songbird set and embossed in clear to create a grooved record effect. The Rock&Roll DSP is from the January to April Stampin' Up! Catalogue and the matted layer I used the Merry Melody embossing folder to add the music element. The stamped music notes are from the Sweet Songbirds, the Happy Birthday is from the Circle Sayings, and You're so Hip (inside joke, if you will) is from the Happiest Hippos, a SAB set from years back.
Hopefully he will find this card a-Rockin'.
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On this second card inspired by the challenge, I decided to use the doughnuts as they were intended! The lighter than air DSP from the January to April catalogue set the mood for this card. I made 3 tasty treats, Chocolate blueberry, Lavender Vanilla, and Strawberry lemonade.... deprived of sugar as it is the 3rd week of diet January... Anyway, for these I stamped the doughnuts 1st in the cake colors, Crumb Cake, Flirty Flamingo and Pecan Pie. I stamped a second time using the frosting flavors, Azure Afternoon, Fresh Freesia, and Lemon Lolly. I cut out the icing and punched out the centers of both and layered them with dimenionals. I ran Wink of Stella over the icing and added Rainbow adhesive backed dots for pizzazz. I used a small piece of vellum to soften the area behind the sentiment and chose to keep this as an all occasion card. It sure did make me smile! 
I hope you enjoy this simple in color, simple
in stamping, but otherwise yummy card that is perfect for all occasions.
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