Monday, February 27, 2012

Elegant Birthday Cards

Happy Monday!  Today was a busy day here . . . trying to get reorganized after having been away for a couple days to play in the snow with my husband and our two little guys, and having a blast with a fun get together with my SUper Friends group, and doing all our regular school (plus now baseball season) routine entails!  Whew!

Anyway, I have a couple of special birthday cards I created recently to show you today.  These were created using the beautiful Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper (one of the awesome free items you can select as a reward during Sale-a-Bration!!!)  Here they are:




The card base is Calypso Coral.  The Everyday Enchantment pieces were cut using the Pennants Die. and were pieced together to form an almost quilt-like border.  I used a strip of the beautiful new Baja Breeze Pleated Ribbon along the edge of the designer series paper border.

"Happy Birthday" and the image around it are from the Elementary Elegance Sale-a-Bration stamp set, and were stamped on Very Vanilla using Early Espresso and Pool Party, respectively.  The piece was die cut using the Label Framelits die.  Underneath that are some scallops of the Everyday Enchantment paper that were die cut using the one of the scallops on the Pennant die.  That, in turn, is layered onto a piece of Pool Party cut out using a larger Label Framelits die.  (Can you tell I just love the Framelits?  Seems like I've been using them on almost everything I've been creating lately!)

The 3D rose embellishment was created by punching several pieces of Calypso Coral with the Fun Flower Punch.  I used the same technique I showed in this tutorial.  The leaves were punched out of Pear Pizzazz using the Blossom Petal Builder Punch.  I used my Simply Scored tool to add the lines to them.

And, I couldn't resist adding a few Pearl Jewels for a little extra touch of elegance.

If you'd like to order any of the supplies I used to make this card, please be sure to visit my online store.

Thanks for visiting my blog!

- Michelle

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Love the pennant border idea! Great cards too. Marlene Caravello