Happy Birthday

 Hi Everyone

Last night (Tuesday) was my monthly club meeting night. I thought I'd share the tutorial project we made. 

This was really easy to make and would be a great gift card holder. 

And here is a pic with that insert pulled out. 

This is a darling Happy Birthday card. 

Well its not a card as such. LOL

Carol, our tutorial instructor for this meeting and club member gave us enough DP papers and CS to make another as well. So I have made some other cards/projects using the additional paper/CS and left over piece parts from this project. One of my other projects looks similar to this one but is a little different.  

I will share those with you all tomorrow night So, stay tuned and come on back to see what I came up with. 

I am submitting my project in the following challenges:

• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #40 - Anything Goes (#12)
• A Place To Start (M, 1st Mon) - October - Anything Goes * (#110)
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge (W, 5E) -  Explore (#20)

Well thanks for popping in and I will see you tomorrow night

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Food and Drink - New post at Crafty Creations Challenges

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The Crafty Creations Challenges has started their new challenge and the theme this time is Something to Eat or Drink. This challenge is a 2 week challenge so you have time to get your creation made and submitted.We are looking forward to seeing your submission.

The sponsor for this challenge is  Fresh Brewed Designs. 

They have a wonderful selection of digital images to choose from. Please check them out

Since the theme is Something to Eat or Drink,

I chose to use a the Birthday Cupcake design from their great selection of images.

I had some ideas as soon as I spied this calorie free delight. 

First I printed this out 4 times on my white card stock. Then I fussy cut just the cupcake paper from 2 of the images. Next I scored the lines and accordion folded both of those cupcake paper images. After that, I glued one end to the other to make the paper longer. I colored the cupcake paper, a pinkish color and then attached each end over the base on the 3rd image. then I attached the center area to the base and now the cupcake paper looks like a real cupcake base. 

Next to make the icing look somewhat realistic, I used a snow marker, and heated it and it puffed up and looks like icing - sort of. 

After that I attached flat back pink pearls in the circle areas. For the candle I cut one out  and then cut a slit in the top of the cupcake and slid it in. I colored the flame and added glitter to add a little sparkle.

So here is the cupcake ready for the card.

Here is the cupcake on the card.

I used some pastel papers to make the card background 

And here is a close up of the cupcake on the finished card.

This image was a lot of fun to use  and will be a cute Happy Birthday card for a child (or even a grown-up) I think!!

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: (Digital)  Fresh Brewed Designs - Birthday Cupcake Paper/Card Stock: Designer Paper, Pink CS Ink: Spectrum Noir Dies Used:  Spellbinders - Circles sm,, Scalloped Circles    Accessories:Glitter, dimensional foam, flat backed pearls, Snow Marker

Challenges I have submitted my card to:

Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes (#87)

Craft Your Passion -  Always Anything Goes (#88)

Love to Scrap - digi or real stamping - (Week 1) Anything Goes (#53)

Melonheadz Friends Challenge - Birthdays (#6)

Not Just Cards -  (February) Always Anything Goes (#209)

Our Crafty Corner - (February) Always Anything Goes (#136)

Addicted to Stamps  #119 Die Cuts  (#55)

Colour Your World with Lucy Sunshine -  Anything Goes (#49)

Have a great rest of your week.

See you soon

Happy Birthday

Hi and welcome back,

Today I am sharing the 3rd  masculine themed card that I taught in my January Card Shop class. (Next months theme in the Card Shop Class will be Sympathy Cards. Stay tuned for posts of those cards in February.) 

On most cards for men we don't envision ribbon because we think of bows. Well lets step out of the box and use ribbon as a background and weave it onto a panel.. This is a great way to use smaller pieces of ribbon that really are too small for a bow. 

Colored my truck with colored pencils and gamsol. Used a hand punch to punch the mirror CS for the rear view mirrors and on the red CS for the brake lights, and I used a glue pen to adhere them.I fussy cut the truck and used dimensional foam to pop it up off the woven panel.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  PrintWorks - Truck;Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous  Simple Sayings   (sentiment & sentiment frame) Paper/Card Stock: Rust, Gray, Dark Brown,Med. Brown, White, Red (Tail Lites), Mirror (truck mirrors)  Ink: India Ink Black; Memento Espresso Accessories: Various Ribbons, Hand Punch (1/4"), Scor-Tape 1/4", Glue Pen, colored pencils, gamsol, blender stumps, dimensional foam

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting with Dragonflies -  #18 Card - any theme(#59 )
• Creative Moments -  #34 Anything goes/Buttons and Pearls (#75 )
• Digistamps 4 Joy - #84 Ribbon (#38 )
• Divas by Design -  Anything Goes (#257 )
• Inky Impressions -  #143 Ribbon (#82 )
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - #294 Anything Goes (#106 )
• Rhedd & Rosie's Challenge Blog - #24 no white  (# 21)
• WordArt Wednesdays - Anything goes (must be uplifting, no dark images or themes) (#163 )
• Craftitude -  No. 57 - Anything Goes/I See Fluffy (#19 )
• Delicious Doodles - No. 72 - Must Use a Ribbon (#40 )
• Stampin' For The Weekend -  (W2 of 2) Happy Birthday (#181 )
• Totally Papercrafts – No. 203 - One for the Boys (#34 )

Thanks for stopping in today, see you soon & stay warm.

Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone,
Well today is Thursday and you know what that means?? It's the beginning of the Weekly Art Impressions Challenge . Each Thursday Art Impressions introduces a new challenge. The theme this week is A Card for a Young Boy. And as I tried to figure out what Art Impressions image I was going to use, I remembered that I had a carousel horse and all kids love to go to the amusement park to ride the rides. I used a Happy Birthday sentiment, and covered it with a semi-transparent glitter - Sparkling Snow. I thought this card would be too cute for a a young boy.

Supplies used:

Carousel Horse -T1255 Art Impressions

Happy Birthday sentiment - G669 Art Impressions

Sparkling Snow Glitter - G1003

Copic Markers - YG45, B28, E15, E43, Y35, R29

Spica Pens (by Copic) - Olive, Buttermilk

Card stock/Paper - Designer Paper, White CS, Yellow CS

Embellishments-Gold Acrylic Stone 

Frame - Spellbinders S5-012

Hope you are inspired and I will see you soon.