More Cards to Order

My friend asked me to make her another couple of birthday cards. I decided to make the same design in two different colors. The first one is done with Papertrey's "Raspberry Fizz" as the highlight color on the front, and the central color on the interior. The sentiment is from a new Papertrey set called "2012 Birthday Tags." It is die cut and backed by two of Papertrey's "Limitless Layers - Ovals" dies. A Martha Stewart punch is used for the decorative sides.

Inside the card, I used vellum along with Papertrey's "Frilly Flowers" dies; the birthday sentiment is from Hero Arts Cling, "Find Joy." The white die cut at the bottom is My Favorite Things "Vertical Greetings."

And here's the same design in Papertrey's "Aqua Mist."

Happy Surgery?

A friend is having back surgery next week, so I wanted to give her a card. I went back to my trusty trellis die cut but used My Favorite Things "Layered Labels" for the sentiment (which I did on the computer in Party LET font).

On the interior I used Papertrey's new pop-up element, then added two sizes of their "Limitless Layers" behind the cute shoe which is "Shoe-ting Star" by The Uptown Design Company (a stamp I've had for years and never used before).

Joyeux Anniversaire

My French professor is having a birthday soon, so I wanted to make him a card. I used the same basic design on the front of the card as I did on the previous birthday card, but put the trellis die cut in black. The stamped frame on the sentiment die is from Papertrey "Celebrations," and I don't know the name of the company that makes the "Joyeux Anniversaire" stamp. I used my Pearl Pen in Cream to make the faux pearls around the sentiment.

I am so loving this spiral pop-up format that I had to use it again on the interior of this card. At the bottom, I used Penny Black's "Ooh la la" Parisian chicken along with the Eiffel Tower die cut from My Favorite Things. The birthday presents scattered along the spiral are from a Martha Stewart punch, and the American Flag (my teacher just became an American citizen) is a sticker. C'est cool, n'est-ce pas?

March Birthdays & Pop-Up Elements

Last month, Papertrey Ink came out with some fun, new dies, so I decided to try out some for my March birthday cards. I've always enjoyed looking at pop-up cards and books but never took the time to try to create my own. Well, Papertrey has now made it a very do-able process with a line of die-cuts that they have named "Movers & Shakers."

On my first card I used die-cuts for my friend's name as well as a couple of decorative stars. On the inside is a super cute "happy" pop-up element. I added some stars to tie the inside to the outside of the card. I'm looking forward to using this pop-up die-cut a lot!

The next card, that I'm using for two girlfriends, has a fancy grid overlay that is a die-cut called "Cover Plate: Quatrefoil;" the sentiment die-cut is "Celebrations Frame;" and the sentiment itself is from the "Movers & Shakers Sentiments" stamp set. All products are from Papertrey Ink.
And, check out the inside of this card: a spiral pop-up! I used butterflies for my first attempt, but I'm eager to try other images with this fun die-cut.

Thanks, Papertrey, for making projects that seemed like too much trouble into something pretty darn easy!!