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Thursday, January 16, 2025

Card - Sweet 16

When I started reorganizing my craft stuff a while back, I came across Stamp-n- Storage.  All my stamps and dies are stored in their storage pockets, here, on corresponding Stamp Cards, here, and Magnet Cards, here.  All my Cloud 9 and Distress Oxides are stored in their Distress Ink Pad Holder, here.  My Stampin Up old style pads were stored in the Standard Ink Pad Holder, here, until I decided to sell them.  Now I use it to store my other slim style ink pads (LDRS, Momento, Delicata, etc) by adding the Ink Pad Spacers, here, so they don't get pushed to the back.

Stamp-n-Storage is celebrating their 16th Birthday this month.  They created a challenge for customers to make a birthday card for Stamp-n-Storage inspired by the decade you turned 16.  

Do you remember the decade you turned Sweet 16?  It was the 1980s for me.  Permed hair with a mile high hay stack on top.  Ok...maybe not quite that drastic, but the air spray fumes were for real!  Aqua Net anyone?

One really important nostalgic item from the 1980s... I remember tuning in every week for the countdown to see which songs made the top 10... that I recorded on a Cassette Tape.... that required a mandatory #2 pencil on hand.

This was a fun card to make as it took me down memory lane while using this set of stamps and dies for the first time.  

This was the first I tried vellum in place of acetate for a shaker card.  I needed to tone down the neon color just a little bit to showcase the cassette tape... and I think it worked!

Supplies:
My Favorite Things 
> Mixtape Messages Stamp Set
>Take Shape Stamp Set

Ink: any neon will work...
>Persimmon 
>Key Lime
>Turquoise Gem
> Purple Hydrangea
VersaColor: Canary 

Imagine Crafts has a great selection called Radiant Neon, here, that I found too late to order in time for this card. They're on my wish list.  Just need to decide if I use what I have, which worked, or if I need the actual "neon".  

Happy Sweet 16th Stamp-n-Storage!

Here are the winners:

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