Happy Birthday to an oldie but goodie!

My Uncle Rick has a birthday coming up and he has always been into cars. So I saw this really cute older style car on Holiday Cakes (yeah, I know...of all places?!) and I knew I had to use it for him. I used Paper Doll Dress Up for the road and Zooballoo for the grass. The Happy Birthday and to an oldie but goodie sentiments were cut using AR Bonne font with MTC software.  I love how the car came out. I had some "chrome" paper that I used for the detailing on the car and I used Real Red cardstock from SU! and coated it with Glossy Accents to give it that sleek, slick just waxed candy apple red car look. I think he will love it!

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A Birthday Card for my Diving Buddy

I made this for my very close friend and scuba diving buddy, Abbye.

I used the following supplies:

Paper

SU! Cardstock – Bermuda Bay

K & Company  patterned paper - Happy Trails

Scraps for Cricut cuts

Life’s a Beach Cricut Cartridge cuts

Divers @ 2.48

Treasure Chest @ 1.53

Seaweed @ 1.32, 1.12, 1.00

Coral @ 1.95, 1.59, 1.00

Turtle, Fish, Mermaid, Starfish, Seahorse @ 1.00

Fish @ 1.17

Embellishments

Glossy Accents (bubbles, crab, mermaid)

Gold Stickles (treasure chest)

Lavender Stickles (mermaid, seahorse)

Turquoise Stickles (fish)

Yellow Stickles (fish, mermaid’s flower)

Fruit Punch Stickles (coral)

Jolee’s Swarovski Crystals (jewels in treasure chest)

PK Glitz Embossing Powder – Eggplant and Fuchsia (coral), NST Copper (starfish), Crystal (starfish)

Stampendous Embossing Powder – Detail White  (starfish)

And as you can see I had a couple of mishaps.  I accidently cut off the arm of my girl diver…oooops J.  And the boy diver lost his hand in an envelope entry accident, but don’t fret, I found it (only after taking the pictures) and I was able to reattach it! 

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Birthday Card for Cousin (Tara, don't peek :))

I made this card for my cousin Tara's birthday.  She loooooves cupcakes.  Hopefully this one is cute enough to eat (even though she can't eat it, hehehe).  I fell in love with the saying on the inside...it just fit her.  If you can't read it, it says "Birthdays are natures way of telling us to eat more cupcakes"

I used the cupcake from Wild Card and the cherry and additional topper on the cupcake is from Sweet Treats.  Embossing folder is Spots and Dots.  Glitter for icing is PK Glitz Crystal glitter.  Cherry is coated with Glossy Accents.  Inside sentiment was printed on printer using Angelina font.

 

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Pooh Valentine Card

A very good friend of mine loves Winnie the Pooh.  We tease her all the time about her ringtone because when her husband calls it rings the Pooh song and she always answers "hello Pooh Bear".  Well, this gave me an idea....I asked her hubs if I could make him a card to give to her.  He has done a ton of nice things for me over the years, so I thought maybe I could return the favor.  So my idea was to have Pooh lovingly thinking about his honey pot and so this is what I came up with...

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Birthday Card for BIL

This is my first card using Sweet Treats. I used the card function for image #11 on the overlay (or page 34 of the handbook). The 'recipe' is below.

Cuts: (all images cut at 7 1/2")

• cards feature - cut with beige cardstock
• shift - cut with pink cardstock
• layers - cut with Coredinations Chocolate Box/mint green
• layers shift - cut with red cardstock
  

Cuttlebugged:

• cone/beige cardstock using Tiny Mosaic Texture folder
• top scoop of ice cream/Coredinations cardstock using Divine Swirls folder (make sure the stem isn't in the folder when running through the cuttlebug
• strawberry/red cardstock using Swiss Dots folder

I then inked the cone and strawberry to bring out the texture and all edges of each piece using Colorbox Cat's Eye Fluid Chalks. I then put a light coat of Glossy Accents on the strawberry to make it shine. Then I sanded the Coredinations cardstock to let the mint color show through. After that I adhered all the layers to the card and stamped with 'happy birthday' using Versamark and bronze embossing powder and applied heat. That's it!

By the way...I am very new to heat embossing. I learned on this card that it doesn't work so well with the small stamps ;)! Just a tip in case you haven't tried it before either. This is only my second try with heat embossing. Gotta start somewhere, right?

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