Noah's First Birthday Shaped Card

Last weekend was my friend's son's first birthday!

I will admit that this card was an after thought. I remembered to order the gift and then completely forgot to make a card until the morning of the party! 

I have come to realize that I am absolutely the worst at crafting baby cards! I have no creativity at all and I'm lacking that cutesy mind. How unfortunate! 

Have a wonderful labor day weekend!

Quilled Glitter Birthday Balloons Card

First day of spring is here!!! Everything in small portions--winter felt way too long this year!

Today I present to you a card that I made for a co-worker's birthday yesterday. I remember her sporting argyle socks and expressing her love for the pattern, so I found this embossing folder (Darice brand) with the impression for the white background. It works well in my old Cuttlebug!

I don't know if you can see from this side view, but the center is popped up and this enabled me to slip the balloon and conceal the stems of the flowers behind the square.

The writing I put together in my Word processor and printed it out. Simple as that!

These quilled balloons I left as a symbol (without the string on the bottom) and I applied glitter to one of them to jazz it up a bit. :) The glitter stayed put pretty well from what I could tell--didn't create a huge mess and detach too much--yay!









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Enjoy your day!

P.S. This card was inspired by My Paper Obsession's card and The Sweetest Thing's Sunday Sketch!

Baby Boy Blue Blocks Card With Teddy

I thought I'd change up the genre a bit and take a short break from the holidays. :) This is a card that I made during the summer for my best friend who then brought it to Hong Kong for a mommy-to-be!










You can probably guess that this is to be for a newborn baby boy. I added a bib to the teddy bear and balloon hearts for added cuteness. :) I also went a little glitter crazy on this one. The glitter spray is by CC Interational. I coated EVERYTHING! lol








Have a great Thursday afternoon!

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Blue and Silver Quilled Bunting Card for Men

How was your thanksgiving? We cooked on Saturday. Had a turkey, but some of the accompanying dishes were chinese-style. We had a Chinese-American thanksgiving you can say. It was a much smaller and easier to manage party versus the one last year where we had what must've been 20 people. I was in the kitchen the whole day and night last year--ready to crash when it was all done, so I paid little to no attention to the rest of the gathering unfortunately. This year we were able to breathe with about half the people! :)

For this card, I gathered inspiration from Paper Daisy Card Design. This one was made for my manager's last day right before Thanksgiving. It's tough making cards for men and this one was no different. At first I thought to myself, do I want to quill a bunch of flags? In the end, my comfort zone kicked in and the next thing you know I have the bunting banner ready. lol

It's snowing at the moment. I can't believe how cold it got and so fast!

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Birthday Greetings Purple and Yellow Quilled Balloons

This card continues with the balloons theme from 365 Cards Day 27, uses a sparkle element for Tuesday Alchemy's Challenge #7, but also integrates the card sketch from The Sweet Stop. I knew I wanted to make a birthday card with those balloons!

I used a purple and yellow theme throughout this card. The words and balloon background were stamped and then brushed with Perfect Pearls.

Happy Anniversary Card, Quilled Balloons

Sometimes it's so hard to find a masculine card when you need one. I tried to make an anniversary card that someone can give to their husband or a friend can give to a lovely couple who is celebrating their anniversary. I like that the balloons are simple to quill. They also look fun enough to use for birthday cards.

The balloons theme is from 365 Cards Day 27.