A Feathery Birthday Card

After a busy, long week, I spent part of my Friday night making some cards. It took me some time to gain inspiration, but after looking through a few card challenges for this week, I was inspired to make a birthday card using a stamp set I haven't touched for a long time! 

Fab Friday has a clean and simple sketch this week, which gave me the perfect start to making my card:

And Seize the Birthday has their usual "Anything Goes" theme this week. The 'Topping' option this time was felt, but I'm pretty sure I don't own any felt... or it's buried somewhere in my crafting supplies... So I opted out on that :). 

And here's the card:

The Stampin Up stamp set I used was "Four Feathers". I loved this stamp set when I first saw it, but wasn't really sure how to incorporate it into my card designs. This sketch gave me the perfect opportunity. The large circle on the card was the perfect spot for these 3 feathers that I stamped and die-cut. The colours I used are probably my favourite colour combination lately -- Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Basic Gray, Smokey Slate, Basic Black and Whisper White. Shades of teal have always been my favourite colours! I added a small strip of black and white designer series paper which seems to pop right out of the card! A couple of the feathers and the sentiment is popped up to give the card some dimension. I've also added texture by embossing the background with "Decorative Dots". Bakers twine and small rhinestones embellish the card.

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A Friday Mashup Win and an Owl Birthday Card

Today is already off to a good start! One of my cards was chosen as the winner of the latest Friday Mashup challenge! What a nice surprise! 

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Another reason to celebrate - our neice, Zulea, has a birthday today! 

I thought it would be fun to make her a card with punch art owls. I saw this great sketch from Always Playing With Paper and used it as the base of my card design:

I'm also linking up with Seize the Birthday:

I love the new designer series paper in the Stampin Up Spring Occasions Mini Catalogue and decided to use it on this card. The colour combo of Real Red, Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana look fabulous together! 

How cute are these owls?! They were created using the Owl Builder punch from Stampin Up - probably one of my favourite punches of all time! The cute party hats were created using the Petite Pennant Builders punch (cut off part the bottom portion) and one of the Itty Bitty punches for the pom. And the owl party continues inside the card! 

Here's wishing Zulea a fantastic day! 

This card was inspired by Darlene Design

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Remembering Your Birthday
Paper: Bermuda Bay, Real Red, Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Basic Black, Fresh Prints DSP, Brights DSP, 2013-2015 In-Colour DSP
Ink: Bermuda Bay
Tools: Owl Builder punch, Petitie Pennant Builders punch, Itty Bitty punch, Heart to Heart punch, Little Leaves sizzlit die
Accessories: Bakers twine (CTMH)

Inspired By... the Olympic Rings!

While I haven't been following the Olympics too closely this time around, I've been keeping up with the medal counts and cheering Canada on! (and having a Dutch heritage, the Netherlands too!) Just recently we celebrated two gold - one for women's curling and the other for women's hockey against USA!! And now we are 2nd in medal standing overall! So proud to be Canadian! 

For our inspirational challenge, Karly chose the perfect photo for this week! 

IB #36

I was inspired to use the colours in this photo to make a kid's birthday card. I am playing along with the latest sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and an "Anything Goes" challenge with Seize the Birthday:

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Here's how it turned out:

Lego pieces! I sponged the edges of each cardstock piece as well as the circles. The circles are popped up to give the card some dimension. While this was quite simple to figure out, it was time consuming to put it all together! I simply added the birthday sentiment "wish big" to complete the card.

This card was CASE'd from Ladybug Designs. 

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Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Short & Sweet

Ink: Basic Black

Paper: Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point, Gumball Green

Tools: 1/2" Circle punch

Seize the Birthday #13: A Masculine Birthday Card

It's been a great weekend so far. Yesterday I crafted almost all day! I stayed motivated and got a lot of papercraft projects completed and ready to go for the craft fair. I took a little break in the middle of the afternoon and went shopping with my hubby. We went to his favourite store - Costco - ate some samples, did some browsing, and managed to walk out of the store without buying anything (that's a first), unless you count the hot dog that Kevin bought... We then headed over to Winners where I found an awesome pair of navy shorts! Looking forward to the day when it's hot enough to wear them! It seems like Spring is taking it's sweet time to get here (we had another snowfall yesterday morning!).

I noticed that I have very few masculine greeting cards, so I took advantage of the Seize the Birthday challenge this week.

This is a nice, clean and simple sketch, but still has just the right amount of layers. I pulled out one of my favourite stamp sets - Lovely as a Tree - and used one of the tree stamps as the central focus of the card. I paired it with woodgrain embossed paper and a touch of Old Olive to tie it all together. Here's how it turned out:

 

The part that took the longest was fussy-cutting the tree. But I love the look of a cut-out stamped image! I popped it up to give the card some dimension and completed the card with a simple sentiment.

 



 

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Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Natural Composition DSP
Ink: Early Espresso, Old Olive marker, Early Espresso marker
Tools: Ovals nestabilities, Word Window punch, Scallop Border punch