Personalized birthday card

My son had a birthday party to go to and it was for a 15 year old boy - my cute cards were not going to be appropriate at all.  So I made a quick one using my old color bursts (haven't used those in a while!) and large alphabet dies by Momenta.  The Happy Birthday is white embossed on black and I'm pretty sure it came from My Favorite Things.  (I had stamped and cut out the strips a while back at a crafty play date so this is not a set I have in my stash.)

I was going to do an eclipse card but found it very hard to read so I stacked four layers of black die cuts and shifted the top layer just a bit so that it popped up and had a shadow.

I heard he liked the card!

Craft play date with Party Pals

I can't tell you how much I enjoy having friends that will play with me and get my mojo back by making cards with me.  First, having a play date means cleaning at least one table off - which is a much needed thing!  Secondly, we get to try new products together and let our creativity feed off each other.

Here are some of the cards we made with Avery Elle's Party Pals.  

And our personal favorite today:

The "more than bacon" sentiment was typed and printed out on card stock.

Here'a a quick (very quick) video of how we made the card.

I wait for the Lord

I've been busy with card making and not so much with blogging so I'm trying to make up for it! 

 Here I used an old Darice Cherry Blossom die on watercolor paper and watercolor brush markers.  I then die cut the same die on vellum and sponged the flowers, trimmed them off, and doubled up the flowers.  From a much older project, I had all these pearl edged RSVP blank cards that had just the right amount of embossing and elegance so I used that as my card base.  I added microbeads to the center of the the cherry blossoms and a verse using Verve's stamp set New Mercies.