Day 267: Penguin Card

Today I made this cute birthday card for a little girl whose birthday party theme is penguins. The party hat and "top note" dies are from Sizzix.  Punches from EK Success were used to make all the punched shapes.  All card stock by Stampin' Up!

Day 221: Monster Truck Card

 My husband and I are very close with my husband's cousin, and her teenage son has a birthday coming up.  I decided a monster truck card might be considered "cool".

I used "chocolate chip" card stock from Stampin' Up! as the card base.  I ran a piece of brown leather look paper from my scrap folder through Cuttlebug's "tire track" embossing folder.  I stamped the Great Impressions monster truck stamp with Memento Ink on Neenah paper, and colored it with my Copic markers. I cut out the truck and  used pop dots to adhere it to the tire tracks.  I layered that on top of a "sand" paper in my scrap folder.  I used my Crop-A-Dile and added 5 black eyelets across the top and bottom of the card to rev it up a little bit.

Day 220: Cards for Boys

My kids got invited to some birthday parties and I needed to make some boy cards.  Tonight I used stickers from Karen Foster, yellow paper from Creative Memories, a background stamp from Great Impressions, ink from Stampin' Up!, and bits and pieces of leftover papers to create these 5 cute cards.

Day 194: Curious George Birthday Card

I made this cute Curious George card for my nephew who will be turning two in a few weeks. I used Curious George paper from a kit by Blue Sky Designs and Real Red card stock (Stampin' Up!) as the base of my card. I used a piece of yellow fun foam as a base for a rectangle of the Real Red (SU) card stock and the Curious George punchout (BSD). I added that on top of the card base. Yellow ribbon and two red brads add the finishing touches.

Day 192: Just Flying By...

I was inspired by the airplane card my son made for his dad yesterday to create this "Just Flying By..." card for my teenage nephew. I used card stock from Stampin' Up as my background for the sky and as the card base. I used masking to make it look like the clouds (All Night Media) were in front of or behind the hot air balloons (Commotion Rubber Stamps) and the plane (unknown). I used a cotton swab to pick up ink off my Stampin' Up! Craft White ink pad and swirled it inside the outlines of the clouds to make them look fluffy and airy. I colored the hot air balloons with my Stampin' Write markers.  I used Martha Stewartink on a cotton swab to color the plane silver.  I layered the sky scene on top of a gingham plaid photo frame I had in my stash and backed it with some white mulberry paper (Paper Reflections). I made the "Just Flying By" banner by using my square punch diamond style on each end of my rectangle.  I wrote "Just Flying By..." with a silver gel pen from Marvy, then wrote over that will a sparkly turquoise Gelly Roll pen (Sakura). I made another banner and continued the sentiment on the inside with "To Wish You a Happy Birthday!". I added a green metal swirl (Creative Impressions) as an accent on the left side of the card. Finally, I used Crystal Effects from Stampin' Up! on the airplane to bring it into the foreground and give the card some dimension. I allowed it to dry completely before scanning it to share with you.

Day 177: Planning Birthday Pages and Sports Pages

Tonight I planned out 10 pages for my son's scrapbook.  Four were birthday photos and six others were for sports.  I planned them out all together because my son's birthday photos featured a football, so I needed to decide which papers I wanted for his birthday and which ones I wanted for his football team photos.

Day 119: Birthday Pages

I had fun creating two birthday pages for my son's 6th birthday.  I used a blue paper with numbers on it as the background for a more serious pose.  Then I found lots of blue and white number "6" stickers and randomly stuck them on the page.  I used some flocked letters to spell out the word "six" across the bottom left corner of the photo.  I had to cut two oval shaped "o" letters to create an "s", and since I did not want the splice to show, I cut a piece of "celebrate" ribbon to go across the center of the word "six", hiding the splice. I also spelled out "six" in a couple of other spots on the page.  This page was kind of low-key, but still fun with all of the sixes. The second page was a little wilder because we had a collage of my son's photos, and in one of them he was being silly and stuck out his tongue.  I used a paper with a confetti birthday party background with paper hats and blow outs printed on it. I added some balloon brads across the top of the page, a "celebrate" ribbon across the bottom, and a "birthday boy" ribbon to make this fun page pop!