Floral Birthday Cards

Yuck, the end of vacation is almost here...I know, I know, I am lucky I have had a vacation! I am making some cards to keep on hand as birthdays come up. Here are a couple from some new paper packs. Words are embossed with powder, and the flowers amd dragonfly are actually from my new "picturesque" cartridge. The butterflies are from a martha stewart "all around the page" punch. The colors are hard to see in the blue and brown one that is first, because of course, ai photographed it at night...with my cell phone...rule number one about blogging is to have eye catching, great pictures right? Oh well. You get the idea, and I will take better pictures for the next post...enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Banner Birthday Card

Holidays are over, so no more winter cards for a while...Although I have been tempted to make some for next year since I have a billion papers and pre-cut embellishments left over! Here's a quick birthday card using the "sweet treats" cartridge for the cupcakes, and I used plain diamond shapes for the banner inside...I embossed the letters with white powder, and then folded them in half and hot glued them onto some twine. I used hot glue and little pearl things to hold them in place. The sentiment inside is a stamp I got from Jo-Ann a while back, and I used a Martha Stewart "all over the page" butterfly punch to add a couple extra things. If you have never tried those punches, I highly recommend it! I rarely splurge on punches because I have my cricut, but those are genius.