Cute Cupcake Birthday

My girls were invited to a birthday party last weekend so I wanted to make a cute little cupcake card.  The little girl was turning 3 so I did 3 cupcakes.  

Here it is:

I used my NEW (yeah) Princess Faces Peachy Keen face stamps (I love those little lips, LOL).  I used Once Upon a Princess for the cupcakes and I used My Creative Time Many Greetings for the Happy Birthday sentiment.  I used an edge trimmer for the candles and I added some gold stickles for the "flames".  I also added some pink stickles to the cupcakes.  TFL!

Anniversary Card for My Hubby

My husband and I will be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary at the end of the month, we will be taking a 1 week trip to Naples, Florida (stopping in Savannah and Orlando on the way) to celebrate.  This will be our first time away from the girls and our first time away from all of them for so long.  Luckily my Mom is coming to stay at our house to take care of everyone.  I wanted to make my hubby's card this year so I decided to go ahead and get that out of the way.

I just picked up my Art Philosophy-Close to My Heart bundle over the weekend and KNEW it would be perfect.  I used the chip board accents for the banner, I then cut out the paper to go on top from the cartridge.  Next I used some stamps I received as a part of my purchase (love FREE stamps).  Those stamps were A Typeface for the I and U, Pair-a-Phrase for the heart and Frames, Tags and Borders set for the U and me 4 ever ticket (I cut the paper out using the cartridge).  Although the color combo is not something I would normally do I had already gone with the yellow and orange before I decided I wanted a pattern paper and I found this heart paper in a DCWV stack I had (thanks Steph) called Madly in Love so I wanted to use it and I think it all works.

I inked the banner by rubbing a cottonswab with in over it and rubbed the edges, just so it did not look so "clean", I used red stickels for the heart and I used my recollections heart edge punch on the bottom. 

I hope my hubby loves it (along with his new smoker grill :)  TFL.

 

Happy Birthday Cupcake Pillowbox

My crafty girlfriend Stephannie gave me the idea to use a pillowbox as a quick gift card holder and now that I have a cartridge (Girls Makeup Party) that has the pillowbox cut on it I am OBSESSED with pillowboxes, LOL.  My cousin's daughter turned 1 last weekend so the girls and I went to the party (the boys had football).  I cut this pillowbox using 8 1/2X 11 pink paper and using the fit to page feature just to make sure it was big enough (it was plent big).  Then I cut the cupcake from Once Upon a Princess with its layers, I think I did it at 3 inches.  I used my Peachy Keen Every Day Character stamps (the biggest one in the pack) to stamp the face. I added some stickels for glam and some eyelashes for cuteness :)  I also used a light pink in to stamp the pillowbox so it looked like a watermark with some stars and a wrapped gift (just some cheapy $1-2 stamps).  Then I used a darker purple to stamp happy birthday all over it. I used my Happy Birthday stamp from My Creative Time.  The gift card fit inside with some extra room, you would put a small trinket (if not for a 1 year old) or just wrap it in tissue paper and put it in.  It work great and my 3 year old who "helped" me loved giving the gift to our cousin.  TFL!

 

 

Birthday Card for My Hubby :)

My husband is a beer connoisseur so for most occasions besides a regular gift, he always gets some sort of beer.  Last year for our anniversary I got him a beer of the month club membership (bimonthly).  This year he is getting car parts for his project car but as usual I will get him a 6 pack of beer, hopefully I can find his favorite summer beer before summer ends but we will see.  In honor of that I made him a beer card :)  I used the St. Patrick's Day beer card on the Spring Holiday Cards cartridge and took away that sentiment and put in Happy Birthday using my gypsy.  Then I stamped it with the sentiment conserve water drink beer from the Pink By Design just for men stamp set :)  I then used some stickels to add some glitter to the "beer" portions of the card (very similar to what I did for his Valentine's Day card).  I think he will get a kick out of it.  TFL.

A Sympathy Card

Unfortunately my son's 4th grade teacher lost her mother last week.  I wanted to make her card to let her know our family it thinking of her and praying for her and her mother.  I used my Gypsy to create this card, I used Lyrical Letters for the words and Blackletter for the "windows".  I used stickles to give it some shine.  TFL.