Another Milestone Birthday

How about a card celebrating a 40th birthday for today? Again, I didn't make it with anyone particular in mind, I'm actually planning to list it in my Etsy store. It's very similar to yesterday's card but I went with a black card base and used My Mind's Eye Home paper for some color. The numbers are from the Cuttlebug Olivia set. The number background from the Glitz Distressing stamp set is stamped in A Muse Studio Wheat ink. The sentiment strip edges are inked with some Vintage Photo Distress ink and the sentiment is stamped in SU Basic Gray ink. The sentiment is from the PTI Big & Bold Wishes stamp set. Instead of using twine on the tag, I used some custom dyed ribbon


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A Milestone Birthday

It's always fun to have a special card for a milestone birthday. Today I have a card celebrating a 30th birthday. I didn't make it with anyone particular in mind, I'm actually planning to list it in my Etsy store. The card base is SU Not Quite Navy with a PTI Rustic Cream mat that I stamped with the number background from the Glitz Distressing stamp set in A Muse Studio burmuda ink. The sentiment strip edges are inked with some Vintage Photo Distress ink and the sentiment is stamped in A Muse Studio Navy ink. The sentiment is from the PTI Big & Bold Wishes stamp set. The floral piece is a journaling card from October Afternoon's Detours line. The tag and numbers are from the Cuttlebug Red Tag Sale set. I also added a circle punch of October Afternoon Freshly Mown Lawn paper from the Daydreams line and a rustic cream circle die cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Pinking Circles. For the finishing touch on the tag I tied some twine from The Twinery on the top (honeydew, caribbean, peapod).


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Rocket Age and Sandylion

Today I have another card featuring the October Afternoon Rocket Age papers. This time I paired them with a robot stamp from a Sandylion Boy Clear set that I bought a while back at Michael's. I thought they worked well together.

The Robot was stamped with navy ink, colored with Copics, then cut out and mounted with pop dots. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash Sentiments set and is also stamped in navy.

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Oct Afternoon Rocket Age

Today's card features papers from October Afternoon's Rocket Age collection that I recently acquired at their warehouse sale. It was my first warehouse sale and I thought it was totally worth traveling 170 miles!  Ok, back to the card. I paired the October Afternoon papers with a stamped sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash Sentiments set. For the finishing touches I added some Navy twine and a button.

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Basic Grey and AMuse Studio

Today's card features the Cushioned in Comfort stamp set from AMuse Studio and papers from the Basic Grey Perhaps line. The chair was stamped on the white piece and then again on patterned paper, cut out and mounted with pop dots for some added dimension.

I also added some Pearl Cotton and a button for the finishing touch. The table and lamp were colored with copics and a white gel pen was used on the lampshade for some extra detail.

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More Cosmo Cricket and Pink Cat Studio

Today I have another card featuring the Pink Cat Studio Farm Animal set along with papers from the Girl Friday line by Cosmo Cricket. I love the little owl in the Farm Animal set so I used three of him on this card.
The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink Birthday Bash Sentiments set.

I also used copics to color the images and a papertrey ink notebook die for my owls and sentiment.

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Cosmo Cricket and Pink Cat Studio

Today's card features the adorable sheep and Happy Birthday stamp from the Pink Cat Studio Farm Animal set along with a Who is Counting? sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash Sentiments set. The papers are from the Girl Friday line by Cosmo Cricket.

I also used copics to color the image, a white gel pen on the cupcake frosting and a papertrey ink notebook die.

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Bridal Shower Favors

My niece is getting married next month and we're having a shower for her this coming weekend. While trying to decide on shower favors, I decided that since I'm a card maker I would make cards. So this past weekend I made 26 copies of three cards and packaged them up to give out at the shower. I'm hoping the guests will be pleased to receive a gift they don't need to feel bad about re-gifting. All three designs are birthday themed because I figured everyone can use birthday cards.

For the first card I stamped the Amuse Studio polka dot background stamp on a kraft card base and then used the Papertrey Ink Botanical Silhouettes set for my focal piece.

For the second card I stamped a birthday sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash set and the cupcake from their Everyday Classics set. I mounted the cupcake on a nestabilities label and added some twine and a red jem.

For the third card I used Anna Wight's Wildflower Shilhouette set from Whipper Snapper for the floral image and Clear and Simple Stamps Icons Extra for the sentiment.

Now that I had the cards done it was time to come up with some cute packaging. I pulled out a package of brown paper lunch bags and cut them down to 6 inches then wrapped a doily and fabric scrap around the side and secured them with some twine. I really like how they turned out.

Here's a shot with some of them arranged in a vintage enamelware tin.

Now I need to get going on making some decorations. I'm going for a shabby chic look so my plan is to make some banners out of sheet music and doilys and muslin. I'm also hoping to have time to make some pom poms out of coffee filters to hang over the food table. I'll be sure and take more pictures at the shower.

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