Month: March 2022

Jessica’s Out of This World Birthday Card

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

We invite you to join us for our current All Things Birthday Challenge! It will be open until Sunday, March 20th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see your creative birthday ideas! Think outside the birthday card box and show us some fun party decorations, gifts and gift packaging.

Good morning!  Jess here with a card for our current Birthday challenge!  I’ve been needing to stock up on some masculine birthday cards and it’s always good to have a couple belated birthday cards in your stash!

To start I stamped the images from Year Eleven and Out of this World with Versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder.  I colored them with Copic markers and die-cut them with the coordinating dies.  I also added a smiley face to the larger planets!  Then I white embossed the sentiment from Year Eleven onto Black Licorice cardstock.

To create my galaxy background I blended squeezed lemonade, salvaged patina, and dusty concord distress oxide ink randomly onto a mini slimline panel of white cardstock.  Then I covered the majority of the panel with blueprint sketch, chipped sapphire, and black soot distress oxide ink leaving just little hints of the other colors.  Once the panel was dry I splattered it with water, gold metallic paint, white gouache, and watered down liquid stardust!  Finally I added my images and sentiment and then adhered the galaxy to a 3” by 6” mini slimline card base!

And that’s it!  You have one more weekend to get crafty and I can’t wait to see your birthday creations!! 
Thanks so much for stopping by and have an amazing weekend!
-Jess

Thank you for this amazing inspiration, Jess!

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Remember this is the last weekend to share your All Things Birthday challenge entries HERE. We will be back on Monday with another fantastic challenge for you!

Catherine’s Magical Platform Pop-Up Birthday Card

- Nancy Krueger 3 Comments

We invite you to join us for our current All Things Birthday Challenge! It will be open until Sunday, March 20th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see your creative birthday ideas! Think outside the birthday card box and show us some fun party decorations, gifts and gift packaging.

Hello Fawnies! It’s Catherine here and I am sharing a card created for the All Things Birthday Challenge inspired by magic.

For the Platform Pop-Up Add-On background, I ink blended Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress Ink and splattered some gold metallic ink. The Platform Pop-Up was created out of cardstock from the Let It Shine Collection Pack and Woodgrain Cardstock in dark brown.

I added stage curtains and stars from the Shadow Box Card Theatre Add-On die cut with Chili Pepper and Sunflower Cardstock.  The magician, hat, and cape are from the Bicycle Built for You set. I drew a line with a multi-liner on the veil to make it into a cape and added a bowtie from Scent with Love. I put the finishing touches on the magician with a magic wand from Critter Concert and a stool from Merry Mice.

I borrowed the cute bunny from Say What? Spring Critters and put him inside a hat from Hats Off to You. I finished off the card with white heat embossed sentiments from Wavy Sayings and Tiny Fairy Tale, along with magical swirls from You Autumn Know, and abracadabra my card is finished! I can’t wait to see what inspires you!

Thank you so much, Catherine! Your card is so creative, and the magic theme is so much fun!

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We can’t wait to see your All Things Birthday creativity! Happy crafting, friends!

Samantha’s Sweet Critter Birthday Card

- Nancy Krueger 2 Comments

We invite you to join us for our current All Things Birthday Challenge! It will be open until Sunday, March 20th at 11:59PM ET. We can’t wait to see your creative birthday ideas!

Samantha created a birthday card with some super cute critters! She started with a Fancy Lattice Backdrop in white layered over a Speckled Eggshell panel. She added this to a Ballet Slippers panel to create a pretty pastel background.

Next, she stamped, colored and die cut images to create a sweet critter birthday celebration! She combined Birthday Before ‘n Afters, Butterfly Kisses, Really High Five, Dandy Day and Scootin’ By. For the greeting she stamped a birthday message from Wavy Sayings on a Simple Wavy Banner.

Thank you so much for inspiring us today, Samantha! This card is so adorable!

Happy crafting friends! We can’t wait to see your All Things Birthday creativity!