Fun Birthday Cake Easel Card

Hello Dreamers!
Lets celebrate today with a super fun Birthday Cake Easel Card.  I made this card for my friend to send to her granddaughter.  It is her 13th Birthday!  I wanted something special, so I made an easel card!  As an extra special touch, I also decorated the envelope with the DP

Materials List:

Stamps: Cake - Morning Star;  Sentiments - My Favorite Things

CS: Solar White - Neenah; Pacific Point, Rich Razzleberry - Stampin' Up

DP: Stampin' Up

Copic Markers

Banner Punch - SU

Alphabet stickers

Stickles glitter glue

Instructions:

• Stamp the cake on white CS twice
• Color with Copic Markers and cut out the cake
• Make the easel card and add the DP

• Layer the stamped cake with Pacific Point CS 
• Add the second cake with dimensional adhesive
• Punch the banner pieces from DP 
• Add a letter sticker to each banner to spell "Happy"
• Add to card with dimensional adhesive

• Apply Stickles to the cake and flames

• Stamp the sentiments with Rich Razzleberry ink

************How about a few fun challenges for my Birthday Cake Easel Card??!!
Scribble Designs: food item and color pallet
Love to Create: make it for the kids
Marker Pop: anything goes + Copic markers
A Random Fan: polka dots

I hope you are having a great day!  I really need to get outside and do a bit of work in the garden.  Looks like it is going to rain soon.....I had better get going!   See you next time!  Love ya
Karen

Gatefold Birthday Card

Hi Dreamers!
How is your week going?  This week seemed to slip by me and here we are at Thursday already.  So, I thought I have better get something posted--for your viewing pleasure!!  Today, I would like to share a Gatefold Birthday card I made for a friend.  I used lots of pretty papers, punches, and a couple stamps.

Materials: 

DP from K & Company

Floral stamp from Stampin' Up

Sentiments from A Muse Studios

Punches: Circle (Marvy) Flower and  Border (Stampin' Up)

Satin Ribbon

Ink: Marvelous Magenta--(a retired SU color you may have in your stash.  It perfectly matched the CS color)

CS: dark rose--shared by a friend--I think it may be by Colorbox

• Start by cutting the card base 8.5 x 5.5"  I used a dark rose colored CS for my base.  
• Score at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8"  --this will make a 2 1/8" flap on each end.
• Fold in the flaps using a bone folder

• Cut two coordinating decorative papers 5 1/2 x 2 1/8" to cover the two flaps
• Punch a strip of CS (the same as the card base) with a border punch and glue to top flap
• Wrap two lengths of ribbon around upper flap and tie in knots

• Stamp Happy Birthday on lower corner
• Stamp Flower and punch out
• Punch a circle from a third coordinating DP and layer with punched flower
• Add flower to upper flap with dimensionals letting the flower hang over the upper flap edge

Inside

• This is what the card looks like unfolded from the inside
• Repeat the DP papers on the inside
• I stamped a partial image of the flower and another sentiment

Inside closeup

A very feminine Birthday card --who would not love getting this in the mail??!!  And, the special fold makes it a bit more interesting.

********A few fun Challenges:
C is for Challenge: flowers
Aud Sentiments: two word sentiment
Crafting with dragonflies: unusual  folded card
Lady Annes: monochromatic
Little Red Wagon: monochromatic
Penny's Challenge: think pink
Songbird : ribbon
Through the craftroom door: anything goes

So, I think I will post more bug themed cards tomorrow.  I have quite a few left you have not seen.  Stay tuned for that!   Hope you  are having a great day!!  Love ya.
Karen