Tag: make your own birthday card

Friday Fun with The Greetery and Beautiful Birthday Balloons!

Hey hey hey everyone, my crafty friends! I've missed you a lot and I think I'm back to sharing! I really really miss blogging, sharing, and interacting with all of you. I have to be honest, I haven't been myself here lately and so I've been cocooning and taking care of myself. I am exhausted and mentally and physically just not feeling well. When I don't feel good it is very hard for me to create. 2023 has already been a super hard year at our house – lots of stress and anxiety for both myself and my dear husband. If it can break, or go wrong, it has….and I am burned out. We always turn to the Lord for comfort and He always provides for us. We will be fine as we always are. Just seems like a lot of tests lately. My soul hurts and I want to be my old loud, crazy, silly self. But not yet – sometimes there is just the need for a season of rest and quiet. I have been creating the past few days and I have SO many projects coming up. SO much good stuff from our favorite companies. I look forward to sharing with you and hearing from you. I hope you are doing well, and getting crafty. I hope to inspire you and be inspired by you! XOXO

Today, I'm up on The Greetery blog with a fun, pretty in pink, birthday card! My card features all supplies from The Greetery, including the gorgeous Balloon Bouquet stamps and dies along with the awesome Square Dance Stencils. My finished card is an A2 card base in white, layred with pink and some stenciled gingham….and more of course….

Here's a side view of my layers…. I die cut out an Arch with the A2 Arches Dies to serve as a frame for the stenciled gingham. I made my focal balloon with the floral spray, and then die cut more balloons from vellum and pink cardstock. Love this soft look!

The Balloon Bouquet stamps are SO pretty and unique!! I used soft pink and green distress inks to stamp the flowers. I really like this color combination. I used the same green distress ink to gently ink blend the bottom of that one large balloon. I stamped and heat embossed the happy birthday sentiment in my favorite silver glitter embossing powder.

I used the Cake Pops Banner and stamps to make a smaller sentiment of hip hip hooray! The 'strings' were die cut from silver glitter cardstock.

The Square Dance Stencils make a gingham/buffalo plaid and you can use up to three different colors to make your plaid. I wanted it to be super soft, so I used all three of the stencils with the SAME color of pink ink! Fresh and pretty!

I am completely obsessed with these glitter drops and added lots of pretty pink sprinkles to finish off my card! (supplies are listed below)

That's it for today! Happy Friday! I hope you have a fun weekend planned! It has been very very cold here!! The snow line is LOW – like only about 20 miles from us. We are staying in this weekend except for church. I hope you're ready to see a lot of me next week – cards are coming! XOXO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supply list for today's birthday card (Affiliate Links Used)

March 3, 2023
Pretty Pink Posh Birthday 2023 Release – Make a Wish Birthday Mug!

Hello my lovelies! How was your Valentine's Day?! I hope you got lots of chocolates and some flowers too! We are pretty low key about Valentine's Day around here and we'll go out to dinner this weekend to celebrate LOVE! Can't wait to go out! I have something fun to share with you today! It's my second project I made with the brand new, beautiful 2023 February/Birthday new release from Pretty Pink Posh! Remember last week there was a big blog hop to celebrate the new release? Well, this week is the Instagram Hop portion of the new release! So…if you have Instagram, be sure to check out the hop there, and leave comments on the posts for more chances to win some prizes! I always like to post my card on my blog too. Today's card is a very colorful and festive birthday wish…in a mug!! Candles, balloons, stars…and coffee! You know this is right up my alley! The new release is so great – I hope you've had a chance to look at it all. We always need more birthday card ideas and supplies, right?! You can shop the NEW RELEASE here!

My finished card is a white A2 card base and I covered it with soft pink gingham paper. I layered white paper with ink blending, and then my mug full of birthday surprises!

I am featuring the brand new Birthday Mug Dies that are a great addition to the mug series! This new set is full of everything for birthdays and parties. I didn't even use all the items! I used a bright color palette to look like a party – yellow, pink, aqua and lime green. So festive and cheerful.

I die cut the mug from aqua cardstock and then inked it with distress ink and a blender brush in a darker shade to add shadow and interest. The sentiments are from two new birthday sentiment items. I really like to combine sentiments in this way!

I die cut all the pieces out and used Copic Markers and Distress Inks to add shading. I also used a white gel pen and lots of glitter!! I used the brand new Layered Party Hats Stencils (I used just the stars stencil from the set) to stencil on some stars in the background. I ink blended just the top of that wonky rectangle too.

All the elements were attached to the card with foam tape so they pop off the paper.

Seriously, everything is SO MUCH FUN and so happy. I could make birthday cards all day long with the new release. Make a WISH!

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out the big Instagram Hop for Pretty Pink Posh today!! Wishing you a blessed day full of fun and crafting! XO

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supplies used for today's card (Affiliate Links Used)!

February 15, 2023
Pretty Pink Posh – Birthday Celebration February 2023 New Release! Gift card holder birthday card!

Hello crafting pals! Happy Saturday! Hope your week was awesome! We have had a couple of weeks of sunshine here and the flowers are going crazy. We already have about 20 fully bloomed daffodils, and the tulips are sprouting! Tons of blossoms on all the trees and lots of camellias too. It feels good to be outside this time of year and I like it that it's still cold at night. I've been busy with tons of activities, mostly at church, and not as much crafting. Life is good here at the moment. Today I'm here on the blog as part of the giant Pretty Pink Posh Ninth Birthday Celebration! One of my favorite companies is nine years old this month – yay and congratulations to Pretty Pink Posh!

In order to celebrate PPP's birthday, there is a huge four day blog hop and also next week a big Instagram hop! Today is my day to join the blog hop and I'm glad you're here! I'll have another card next week too! Yippee! Prizes, supplies, discounts and the link list are at the bottom of my post today. Let's get started!

THE PPP BIRTHDAY NEW RELEASE IS ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR SHOPPING!!

My finished card is an A2 cream card base. I layered pretty purple cardstock and purple gingham as my base. My card features the brand new Gift Card Bag Die, The brand new Birthday Sentiments stamps and dies, and the brand new Wish stamps and dies. I used a color palette of purple, green, yellow and cream, with bits of gold and some sparkly glitter!

The star of the show is the awesome new GIft Card Bag Die! It perfectly holds a gift card for any occasion. I made a fun birthday card with mine to use all the new supplies! I die cut the bag from cream cardstock and gently inked just the bottom of the bag using Distress Ink and a Blender Brush. I heat embossed the sentiment in gold onto a vellum strip to go across the bottom of the bag. The sentiment is brand new and I LOVE it!

The top of the bag die has a pretty zig zag edge which just adds a nice detail. When I die cut the bag, I die cut a purple handle for it. I used a previously released die set to make some matching purple bows for the top. I tucked in some crumpled up vellum to look like gift bag tissue!

I colored everything with Copic Markers and added white gel pen accents. I splattered on gold paint and purple ink to the bag for a bit of artistic interest. I used a scallop circle and another cream circle to serve as my focal point for the birthday icons.

Here is my card with the coffee gift card tucked inside!! Fun fact about me – I collect Starbucks cards! For over twenty years! I have hundreds of them and so I can always find one that matches a theme or is perfect for the person! This one has a pretty birthday cake on it.

Here is some great sale information – and a free gift offer too!

My gift bag was attached to the card using foam tape to leave room for the vellum tissue and the gift card. I'll need a larger envelope, but that's okay!

Thank you for stopping by today! Enjoy the wonderful blog hop! Hope you have an awesome weekend! XO

There are EIGHT $25 gift certificates up for grabs from Pretty Pink Posh (two winners for each day of the hop!) Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop comments so be sure to comment on ALL the blogs!! Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 2/15/2023. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog! Good luck everyone!!

THE PPP BIRTHDAY NEW RELEASE IS ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR SHOPPING!!

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see my supply list for today's card (Affiliate Links Used)!

TODAY'S BLOG HOP LINKS LIST! ENJOY THE HOP!

Pretty Pink Posh blog
Tammy Stark
Wanda Guess
Jeanne Jachna
Rachel Alvarado
Jeannie Lieu

February 11, 2023
Happy Birthday to our friends at Pretty Pink Posh – Here’s some cupcakes!

Hi there crafty friends! Happy Saturday! What are you doing this weekend? We don't have any big plans for the weekend – just some errands and church and maybe a walk in the park. We had weather in the 70's all this past week and our flowers are already blooming! We have lots of daffodils and a few tulips are trying to pop out too! So we might have to do some yard work already! Spring has sprung in Sactown! I hope you have a delightful weekend!

Today's post is part of the big celebration of Pretty Pink Posh's 8th birthday! There's a three day blog hop and then also a three day Instagram hop, prizes, fun, inspiration, new products and more! I am so happy for Paulina and Pretty Pink Posh and wish them many many more happy birthday celebrations! One of my favorite companies for sure!!

My card for the hop has a birthday theme (of course!) and I used the brand new Build a Cupcake stamps and dies and a vivid, happy color palette! My finished card is a white A2 card base layered with some teal, more white and a bit of vellum too! Those cupcakes are the star of the show! Who doesn't love cupcakes??

I love this font, and I love that there's a matching die cut so it cuts out perfectly to put on your card! I stamped and die cut out three cupcakes. I colored them with Copic Markers and added white gel pen accents and glitter accents too!

Here's a close up of those cheery cupcakes! The stamp set has add-ons like a cherry, a candle, a star and more! For the background I used the awesome Star Stencils from Pretty Pink Posh! I used two shades of yellow distress inks and my blender brushes to make the stars. They made the perfect background for a birthday card!

I used a vellum circle as the background for the cupcakes. They are attached to the card with foam tape. The sentiment is centered on the bottom and is also attached with foam tape. I used the new Sunshine Pearls Embellishments on my card. SOOOOOO pretty! My crafting always turns to the color yellow this time of year….

Here's another close up of the cupcakes! SO SWEET!

Thanks for stopping by on the Hop! If you're new to my blog – welcome! Hope to see you back again! Everyone have a great weekend!!! XOXOXO

SHOP THE PPP NEW RELEASE HERE!

PRIZE ALERT!!! There are THREE $50 gift certificates up for grabs (one winner each day of this blog hop!!) Winners will be picked randomly from blog comments all along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 2/16/2022. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog next week! Good Luck!

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the supply list for today's card! (Affiliate Links Used)

TODAY'S BLOG HOP LINEUP!

Pretty Pink Posh blog

Caly Person

Wanda Guess

Carly Minner

Channin Pelletier

Ashley Ebben

Lisa Mears

Dana Kirby

Yoonsun Hur

February 12, 2022
Pop Up Birthday Card with the new Concord & 9th Release!

Hey friends!! Hope you're having an awesome week! I'm here with (shocking) a birthday card! NOT a Christmas card! LOL. There's a fabulous new release last week from Concord & 9th and I was lucky enough to get some goodies in the mail from them. They always come up with something cool! Remember the pop up Christmas village??? Yeah, they're super cool over at C9! Today I have some pretty party colors and a new kind of Pop Up! You're gonna love it. I will tell you, I am not a genius at folding things and putting 3D things together…. So I was a little nervous about trying this. But guess what? I got it exactly right on the first try! Yay! It's always good to have birthday cards on hand. And you could make this card with any color palette. I used lots of the new goodies: ice cream, cupcakes, candles….all of it!

The finished card is an A2 white card base folded on the long edge. I wrapped it with a decorated belly band to keep it shut until it POPS open. I love these colors together and this card makes me smile. Here is the front of the card, while folded, with the belly band on. All the elements: words, candy and ice cream are all only connected to that teal band so it can slide right off.

Of course I made a triple scoop cone for the front! I used these four colors from the beautiful C9 palette: Ballet Slipper, Honeysuckle, Aqua Sky and Oceanside. I only added a few pops of red/yellow/orange as accents. The "Happy Birthday" is two stamps that match up – so you can easily use two different colors.

Here is the belly band after I slid it off the card….

And…. POP POP POP up! Yay! Happy birthday indeed! Candles, then ice creams, then cupcakes up front! So sweet! I die cut out all these elements from the four colors in my palette. Then I used Copic Markers to add shading and then some white gel pen accents. The bottom of the ice creams and cupcakes are made with kraft cardstock.

Here's a close up of the elements attached to the folding pop up base dies! SO easy! The pop up base dies are in a set of three – different sizes. You die cut then out and tape them into the fold of the card. Then glue on your elements. That's it. Truly. I did it and you can too!

Before I added the pop up elements I stamped the happy happy birthday onto the bottom of the card and also added some confetti!

Here is the back side of the construction so you can see how they are put onto the fold/card.

That's it folks! We're back to the card front! What do you think? Have you tried making pop up cards before? What would you put on there? I can picture some cute critters, or flowers or maybe some presents…. The sky's the limit with this!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a fabulous day and I'll see you soon!! XOXO

CLICK HERE to visit our friends at Concord & 9th!

CLICK HERE or on the graphic below to see the full supply list for today's card! (Affiliate Links Used)

December 16, 2021
Beautiful blue daisies!

Hello crafty pals! How are you? Happy Sunday! Did you see my post on the SSS Blog yesterday? I hope so, because I LOOOOOOOOVE that project! (CLICK HERE) And if you leave a comment you could win a prize. It was super fun to make that one! Is it hot where you are? It's been 105 every day here. Whew. I did some organizing in the studio yesterday and stayed inside! I made one mistake, though. I had planned a casserole for dinner! Ack, so I had to turn on the oven! I have been making tons of recipes off Pinterest! So far, they've all been pretty good! I hope you are keeping cool and having a fun weekend.

Today I'm sharing a pretty, clean and simple card made with the lovely Stitched Daisies Dies from Simon Says Stamp. I used a new paper collection from Doodlebug called Smitten Kitten! It has all kinds of pretty pastels, and the prettiest shade of blue. So I made blue daisies! Is there such a thing?? Oh well, there is now! I love to combine patterned papers and this paper pad has been calling to me all week. This is a good card layout, too, if you have some papers you want to use up.

I started with a Bazzill Rock Candy card base and layered the floral paper and then the white paper. Then I had fun cutting out and assembling the flowers.

I attached the daisies to my card using foam squares to make them pop off the page. It gives a bit of dimension, but the card will still fit in an envelope! I adore this paper! (Maybe I already mentioned that!) LOL.

This birthday stamp is from the Simon Says Stamp Birthday Bits stamp set. The stamp set also comes with the splatter stamp used here.

Thank you for spending part of your weekend here with me! Best wishes for a great week ahead! XOXO

SUPPLIES FOR TODAY:

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July 24, 2016
Reverse Confetti Birthday Blog Hop! Hurray!

Hi there! It's time to celebrate! Good times! Birthday! I am happy to be joining the celebration as Reverse Confetti Stamps celebrates its 3rd birthday! WOOOT WOOOT! How can it only have been three years? I feel like I have loved their stamps forever. Big congratulations to Jen and the entire Confetti Crew on this milestone. I'm delighted to have been invited to be part of this hop today. In honor of the occasion, I made, what else…. A birthday card! I used the brand new cake stamps and dies and the awesome new sentiments. I crafted up a yummy color scheme of pink and mint green. I really had so much fun playing with these cake stamps… There are so many combinations and ways to put it together. ALL OF THE NEW items are now available by clicking on this link. Shop til you drop! Fab-u-lous! Did you arrive here from Diane's Blog? Welcome! Let's get started!

I started by choosing my color scheme, and then my patterned papers… I stamped the confetti image at the top of a piece of paper, in a lovely mint green ink. Then I layered a frame over that piece to create a window box for my pretty cake. I stamped the cake in black ink and then colored it light pink with a Copic Marker… Before stamping the second color – pink ink.

This banner was made by using one of the stamps that goes onto the cake! I stamped and cut it out three times and made those pieces into a banner for the top of my frame! A pretty mint green enamel dot looks nice right in the center.

I colored the cake stand with a Copic marker also. There are tiny touches of Diamond Stickles on the candles and the cake plate.

This is going to be a great blog hop! I can't wait to see what everyone else made! Have an awesome day and enjoy the inspiration! XOXO

May 8, 2016