Birthday Sundaes Challenge #46

Good morning! Welcome to another Birthday Sundaes challenge!  Our challenge is for you to make a card with a birthday theme:)
The winner of this challenge will win three images from Sweet and Sassy Stamps!

I saw this cut a while back and thought it would look great as a shaped card.  It goes so perfectly with the Birthday Sundaes challenge blog:)

Please check out the Birthday Sundaes DT and enter your card here.

This cut is from Birthday Bash cut at 4.5 inches. 

Thank you for stopping by:) 

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #41

Hello! Welcome back to another Birthday Sundaes Challenge!  This weeks challenge is to make an easel card with a birthday theme.  For years I had seen easel cards and I always admired them.  I kept telling myself to just try to make one, but I never did it because they looked really complicated to make. Well, I sat down this week and checked out the links that Kristie provided for us.  I was shocked at how easy it was to make an easel card!  I used this tutorial here:  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/easelcard/

It was super easy to follow and had very clear directions.  

I'm so happy that I now know how to make these! Thanks Kristie! 

Here is my card:

I will admit that I am not too great with measurements.  That is why I use my Gypsy for everything! I cut the layer that folds with my trimmer and then I used my Gypsy to make the rest of the card.  All I had to do was make a 4 1/2" square in my Gypsy and then I was free to design everything that went in it just like normal.  My squirrel is from Birthday Bash.  The shape behind the squirrel is from Elegant Edges.  If you don't own this cart, you need to get it. 

The sentiment is from Close To My Heart.  It came with my Art Philosophy cartridge package.  This is my first time using CTMH and I am so impressed.  The image was so clean and easy to emboss! It looks beautiful in person.  I will have to purchase more of their sets. 

The papers, embossing folder, embossing powder and ribbon are from SU!

I also had to use my Peachy Keen faces for his face.  The whole face didn't fit because he is cut pretty small (2 inches) so I masked the eyes so that I could just get his nose and mouth. 

Here is our awesome prize for this week sponsored by Annie's Paper Boutique:

Trendy Twine ValenTwine Mini Pack {Valentine's Day Bakers Twine}

This little pack includes 40 yards:
20 yd of Valentine Cherry Cupcake
10 Berry Red
10 Posy Pink

Twine is 4-ply and 100% cotton.

Make sure to visit the Birthday Sundaes DT and enter your easel card HERE. 

Thank you for visiting!

Yellow Flower Card

Hello everyone!  Tonight I made a card for my grandmother.  I had wanted to try to make a 3D flower for a long time so I thought this might be the perfect chance.  It doesn't look like what I had imagined, but I loved the end result.  It kind of looks like a rose.

The flower came from the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge.  It's the same flower cut 6 times in different sizes.  After cutting them I embossed them (It's hard to tell in the pictures) and inked the edges with pink ink. I also curled the edges to give it more dimension and added some leaves, also from Mother's Day Bouquet. 

I welded two squares from Birthday Bash together to make the card base. The corners were already rounded.

I realized quickly that I need more sentiments to add to my cards!

Recipe:

Yellow paper: Recollections

Gray textured paper: Stormy Gray from Coredinations 

Flower and leaves: Mother's Day Bouquet

Square: Birthday Bash