Julia's Birthday

My next door neighbor's birthday is today - she's 94!  I started with a familiar exterior (see March 9 post), but used Kaleidacolor's Melon Melody ink colors along with my favorite Papertrey dies and stamps.

The interior has mostly Papertrey products:  their new "Summer Sunrise Bitty Dot" patterned paper cut with their platform die, and the letters are from their "Block Alphabet" set.  The flowers and leaves are from My Favorite Things "Upsey Daisies" set.

Summer Birthday Variation

This exterior of this card is basically the same as the one I made in my previous Summer Birthday post, but this time I used a Martha Stewart punch on the two side edges, then scored some vertical lines for some added interest.

Blue Ribbon Birthday

A friend asked me to make a birthday card for her daughter who breeds horses.  I decided to make it a blue ribbon card.

I started with Papertrey's "Quatrefoil" background, then added the blue ribbon which is a combination of My Favorite Things "First Place Award Ribbon" and Spellbinders large scallop die.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts "Birthday Messages" set.

On the inside, I mimicked the top of the ribbon award and used a horse die from Papertrey's "On the Farm" set, adhering it to Papertrey's platform die cut.  I added a sentiment from Hero Arts "Clear Design Number Seven" set.  It is mounted on My Favorite Things "Fishtail" dies.

Summer Birthday

At the end of March I used this same style for a couple of birthday cards, but those cards were smaller and in different colors.  I needed to come up with a birthday card quickly and remembered this style.  I think the pumpkin color works well for a summer birthday.

Graduation Card

A friend asked if I could make a graduation card for her granddaughter who's graduating from college.  I recalled I had a stamp of a cat wearing a mortar board, so here's the result.

The cat stamp from Penny Black is called "Smarty Cat!" and is colored with Copic markers.  The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts "Find Joy" set, and is mounted on My Favorite Things "Fishtail" die cuts.  The white embossed panel is a Sizzix embossing folder called "Stars and Swirls."

On the inside I used the spiral from Papertrey, along with the same Fishtail die cut I used on the front of the card for the sentiment, which is from The Cat's Pajamas "Presto" stamp set.  The little jeweled diplomas and mortar boards are from a Jolee's Boutique sticker set.

60th Birthday

A friend asked if I'd make a card for her husband who's turning 60.  I showed her some other "milestone" cards I'd made last year (in February and May), and adapted this card from the basic design I'd used previously.

The color is a little washed out here.  The true colors are lavender, dark purple and lime green.  I also had to change the orientation of the card this time, making it open vertically as opposed to horizontally,  as I wanted to put a pop-up platform on the inside.

My friend wanted to have a golf ball somewhere in the card, so I got out my trusty critter who loves to carry things and put a golf ball with a birthday candle in his paws.  He is mounted onto a wobbly disc that is mounted onto a pop-up platform.