'Sweet' 13 Birthday!

Here's a card I made for a friend who needed a birthday card for a thirteen year old. If you've been on my blog, it might seem familiar to you! I made the original of this card for my daughter's twenty-first birthday last year.

So for this re-make, I changed up the colors. I really like these colors! The Blushing Bride is a soft and soothing pink, and I love it with my fav, Crumb Cake, and Soft Suede.


Here's a closer look at the pinwheel. - It's made with a 2 1/2" square of Blushing Bride Designer Paper. I love how the Silver Glimmer Paper and the Rhinestone jewels give the pinwheel that extra sparkle!!

And, if you were wondering, the stick is just a skewer that is cut down. They're from Target in a packet of 100 for $2 - you buy them once and never run out!!


Have a great Sunday!


Julie

Extreme Birthday... and an Oooops!

I made this card today for my nephew's birthday. It's a pretty quick and easy layout, with not much bling or extras - but it's for a boy, and it's going in the mail - had to keep it somewhat simple!

I used Lucky Limeade with Basic Gray and Black. And for the Designer Paper layer, I used Pick Your Poison papers. I love when the Holiday themed papers have some pieces that have regular patterns that you can easily use later on other stuff!!

For the banner, I used the Petal Cone die piece, and then stamped the On Your Birthday saying. I kind of wrinkled and smooshed and sponged it before I folded up the ends to make it the size I wanted.

And I also Smooch Spritzed the whole card - Love that, just haven't been doing it as much lately!

So then don't you hate when you create a card, and then this happens inside - AAaaccckkkk!! :(

You want to crumple it all up and throw it away... until you think about the time and effort you put into the front!

So there you go... Just stamp it again on a scrap piece of the same color, trim and glue it in there... Life is good again!


Have a great Sunday!


Julie

Fun Party Favors!

These were little party favors that I put together for Jessie's birthday dinner last Saturday. We had a day of wine tasting - just three wineries, and a nice lunch at one of them. Then we had dinner at our favorite restaurant in Cambria that night.

So I had made these little 'favors' to put out at everyone's place setting at the dinner table. The wine glasses are little miniatures from Pier One. They hold about 1/2 cup of M&M's. I thought they were perfect for the occasion! I made the little tags to hang from them with circle punches and the 'let's celebrate' from the On Your Birthday set.

And then I special ordered the M&M's online - they have her picture on some and "Jessie is 21!" on the others. I think they turned out super cute!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

A Birthday Star!

I was looking to make a simple card for one of the many August birthdays in our family, and I saw a cute one made by Niki Toll on Stampin' Connection. So I decided to change up the colors and make one too! Her colors were actually kind of cuter, but I didn't have the same papers.

Here's a closer-up of the star. I like the little banner piece coming out of the side of the star. And I like all the texture to the pieces - Where would my cards be without Embossing Folders?!


Off to make some more birthday cards...


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

A Berry Cute Idea!

I found this cute little strawberry idea made by Linda Fisher here. It was perfect timing because I needed a belated birthday card for my step-mom, and she loves strawberries! I had made these really cute Big Shot strawberries last summer, but they're 3D - so kind of hard to put on a card!

I Love this idea using the Heart of Heart embosslit! So cute, and super easy!! A couple other punches for the other parts - and tah dah!!

Here's a close-up of the strawberry - cute, huh? I know it's kind of early for local strawberries around here, but a good card to save for a summer card too!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

Crazy for Buzz!

This card is for my nephew, who is turning 4 this weekend. He's having a Toy Story themed birthday! So I found this AMAZING punched art work by Ellen Kemper on Stampin Connection. She has an awesome tutorial on her blog here for making Buzz out of punches! It's definitely not the quickest card I've ever made, but it's maybe one of the coolest! - Or at least I hope my nephew thinks so!

It was a little tricky getting him on a card... he's about 7" tall. So I ended up making a 5" x 7" card. I scrambled, but found an envelope to fit!

Not much stamping, but I added the birthday saying from the On Your Birthday set, and gave it a Square Lattice texture for the background. And yes, there was a little trickiness to the embossed background too - It's too big to fit in the folder. So I did it in two parts. But then there was a yucky seam in the middle (as much as I did try to line it up!). So that's why I added the black ribbon, to hide the seam it made!

Here's a little bit of a closer-up of Buzz! And guess what, with almost ALL of the punches in the Stampin' Up! catalog, plus a couple retired ones, you too can have a Buzz Lightyear! - Just kidding! But, Wow! it was actually cool to have all the punches to be able to make this!!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie

It's a Sail Away Bleached Birthday

Here's another Sneak Peek from the upcoming Summer Mini Catalog! I used the new stamp called Sail Away. It's going to be offered as a single stamp. I kind of like that we have single stamp options, cause you know how some of us do have a lot of other things we can already put with those single stamps! :)

I added the birthday saying from the On Your Birthday set. And I used the Square Lattice Folder the background texture.

And probably my favorite thing about the card is the stamping and "coloring" of the sailboat. I stamped the image with Night of Navy Craft Ink and clear embossed it. Then I colored the sails with a q-tip and bleach! I haven't done heat embossing with bleach in a long time, but I LOVE the look of it! And definitely when you want to color in with bleach, it helps to have that heat embossed raised edge.

The one thing to remember when you bleach though is to test how the bleach will effect the cardstock you're using. Bleach on Crumb Cake turns a little vanilla-ish, yellowish! So when you want to coordinate your other card parts you'll know what goes best too.

The 5/8" vanilla grosgrain ribbon I chose has a little more yellowish to it, so it worked well. But when I went to add a vanilla background piece to the saying, I realized that it was a little off. So I added a little So Saffron sponging to help it! Now I think it all works well!


Thanks for stopping by,


Julie