Girl/Boy/Girl

Those are our nieces and nephew's birthdays we'll be celebrating in the next month. My guest bedroom is currently filled with toys and cute little outfits waiting to be wrapped.

Here are the cards I made for the first set of birthdays. I wanted to use a similar layout so I could get them done quickly, but have a unique style since one is for a girl and one is for a boy. I started by embossing cardstock using my new Spellbinders Grand Calibur.

For my niece's girlie girl card, I stitched a border around all the paper scraps before layering them with a chipboard flourish, lace trim, butterfly, and sentiment.

For my nephew's card, I layered on blue and green patterned papers, a vintage notepaper scrap, and yellow rick-rack. I typed the sentiment on my old typewriter then used my new EK photo labels punch to punch it out. A Sassafras flower unifies the colors and adds some dimension.

I'll be celebrating with my other niece next month when she turns 4! Here is the card I made for her. She loves strawberries and wants a strawberry birthday cake, so I wanted to use that as my theme. I layered some paper scraps in her favorite color, added some lace trim, a chipboard strawberry, and created the sentiment with my Dymo label maker. I used pink ink to make the embossed dots stand out.

I know we'll have fun celebrating with them!

Birthday Cards

I have another round of birthdays coming up, so I made a few cards to get ready. Because most of these cards are going to be mailed, I tried to make them as flat as possible. I made all these cards with paper from the Die Cuts with a View Mariposa stack, GCD Studios Homespun Chic collection, and other paper scraps and embellishments.

On this card, I added Webster's Pages alphas and a sparkly chipboard embellishment.

On this card, I stitched a border on the patterned paper and cut a frame from another pattern. The crown and wings are a rub on. I made the title on my Dymo label maker. The transparency that tops it all was a little too large for my card, so I just cut it down, allowing one of the butterflies to fly off the top.

This easy card uses a sweet patterned paper from the Homespun Chic collection. I stitched a simple border on the paper and added Webster's Pages alphas.

Lastly, on this card I used some of my sewing machine's specialty stitches on the flower stems. I added vintage crochet trim at the top and a few punched butterflies. The title is a combination of Cosmo Cricket alphas and a Crafty Secrets stamp.