Happy Birthday!

Sorry the picture is blurry (it was a last minute pic!) It was my older son's 14th birthday yesterday, so Markus (my 4 yr old) and I baked a cake and cupcakes for him. Markus decorated most of the cupcakes all by himself, and a lot of green icing was everywhere!

For the card, I embossed the Extreme Guitar image on top of one of the Extreme Elements stamps and then simply added some punched out stars, some popped up for dimension.

Little monkey

I made this 4x4 "1st birthday" card to co-ordinate with the blanket I made (see below). I used bermuda bay ribbon and cardstock with chocolate chip ink and cardstock

More bleaching....

I am so happy to have found this Summer By the Sea set on Craigslist recently, it is perfect for so many things. This is the same image I watercolored a few posts ago, but this time I used the bleaching technique. Super quick and easy!

Watercoloring

For this card I used the set "Summer By the Sea" (SU retired). I embossed the image and then watercolored using my crayons, pencils, and blender pen (all SU). I added the white organza with a button tied with some linen thread to finish it off.

Little Monkies

I had to make 3 kid's birthday cards this weekend and I was having trouble getting creative so this is a very simple layout and I just made 2 of the same! The third one I did do different as he is a big boy (turning 5 years old!) See tomorrows post...
Anyways, back to these cards....I used the Sock Monkey set which I find perfect for kid's cards. I stamped it onto the circle (cut with bigshot) in basic black, then again in black on the DSP (that is choc. chip DSP). I cut out the DSP image and paper pieced the monkey. Added the birthday hat and chipboard which I inked with craft bashful blue ink which I added some dazzling diamonds to, as well as the pompom on the hat. Mounted the circle onto the scallop circle and then glued that with dimensionals to pop it up to the real red base. On the inside I put a piece of whisper white CS and stamped "celebrate" from the Warm Words set.

Beach-n!

It was sunny for 5 minutes yesterday, it inspired me to use this stamp!

The green envelope in the middle is one of the invitations that I made for the party....

Finally a new post!

I have been sick with pneumonia, so haven't been doing any crafting lately.
I made this crown and card last night for a "Princess Tea-party" that my 3 year old son is going to today, where they have to come dressed as princes and princesses! I got one of the crowns from Burger King and traced it onto white poster board, cut it out, and then spray painted with metallic silver paint. Added some "jewels" at the top, some large gold brads around the bottom and the stars I made by putting double sided tape onto a piece of cardstock, punched them out and then added the red glitter. (his cape is black with red lining which is why the stars are red!)
The card isn't my favorite, and a lot of the detail didn't show up in the pic, but I actually cut out the main image and then stamped it again onto a piece of white cardstock for the detail, and popped up the figures with dimensionals. Her dress has some iridescent ice glitter on it and I added the silver star brads for extra bling. The knight is colored with a metallic silver pen, but hard to see that,

Pink Cat Studio stamps, nesties, SU scallop punch and cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder.

Gift Box

This is a gift box I made for my friend for her birthday. Another one of my new stamps from Tim Holtz' line. I used Grungeboard to make the custom tag, and the "thing" at the top (which I didn't really care for....should have left that off!) I inked the tag up with distress ink, stamped happy birthday, and added twill tape for the name to be stamped onto. I stamped, then embossed the background image so it is a bit shimmery (I have to add some kind of sparkle to pretty much everything!!)

Gone Fishing

I made this card for my husband, again using Dress Up Billy (PCS), I love these stamps
I tried to make it masculine so no sparkles or ribbons. I hit the copper brads with a hammer to rough them up, and on the inside it says best fishes. As I was taking the paper off of my pop up dots on the back of the Billy image I put my thumb on his forhead and it had some black ink on it....opps, well I wasn't starting over because I was freezing my buns off in the basement, so I decided it is dirt on his face! Oh ya, I also added in some gray hair if you look closely ;)

6x6x3x3x3 Challenge!

I used 3 different scallop punches, 3 large brads, and 3-3D layers 

Used glossy accents for the eyes and balloon which I cut out,  popped up, and attatched some string to.