Let her eat cake!

Happy Friday, all!

I'm just popping in with a card I'd made for the recent Paper Crafts call... I love the vintage-poster feel of it, and how I have no idea what to do with it now, since no one I know is having a 16th birthday anytime soon :)

(sooo, on that note, if anyone needs a very girly 16th birthday card, let me know and I'll pop it in the mail for you.)

I used mostly CSS goodies on this card, save the hero arts "radiant banner" background.  I die-cut the cake die into my main panel and stamped the cake and stand into the opening, but then stamped the candles, and "sweet 16" (from "cake decorating too") onto the raised panel.  I love this cake image (from "cake decorating") - you can mix and match so many elements to change the look of it (here, I stamped the little rosette buds and the draped icing images to make it more girly, but the possibilities are almost endless.)  I colored it with 3 different shades of pink, and stamped the sunburst with a fourth pink color - because sometimes, too much of a good thing is a g-o-o-d thing.

The banner image is from the same "radiant banner" stamp - I stamped it again onto white card-stock and cut it out.  I adhered it slightly off to the side (in keeping with my vintage-poster feel... but maybe it just looks lopsided to you? hee.)

I have a few more "rejects" to share with you next week, and the one that got picked up?  You'll have to wait until next year to see it in print *wink*

Thanks for popping by!

happy birthday!

Hi peeps!

I have to admit that I'm dragging my heels a bit ... I'm going on almost 2 weeks of chesty coughing and now I think I've compounded the problem by catching another cold.  The runny nose and difficulty sleeping are not helping :)

So, to cheer myself up, I made this bright birthday card:

I first stamped the Hero Arts "radiant banner" background onto a sheet of cream cardstock.  Then, I sponged a baking doily with red ink (then paused to thoroughly wash my hands), and die-cut some funky blue grass and kraft-y dolls (love that MFT border!).  The focal tag was stamped with a honeycomb pattern from Clear & Simple Stamps, and the birthday tag (PTI) was stamped first with red ink, and again with aqua mist.  I snipped and layered the parts before adhering them to the kraft layer and then onto the tag.

 Thanks for peeking!