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My friend Kristy’s birthday was yesterday and we are getting together for dinner tonight to celebrate. Her favorite color is red and she happens to like penguins and anything Hawaiian. I combined that with Jen’s Sketch For You to Try and came up with this card. On the inside I used the sentiment: Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Let’s swim like a fish and drink like one too! I hope she likes it.

A Birthday Card for Kristy

Stamps: Starving Artistamps Doodlestamps Tropics and Tropics Sentiments 1 (inside); Stampin’ Up Do the Hula (flower)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Summer Sun, Real Red, Kraft
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Pink Flamingo
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Real Red (flower)
Embellishments: red Hawaiian ribbon
Tools: EK Success Beach Scene border punch; atYou Spice Red (flower); dimensionals

I got together with my friend Lori on Sunday. One of the things I worked on was a birthday card for Jacey, Jennika‘s little boy. Jennika is the friend who made Jessica the adorable little knited hat with flower, which I just realized I never shared with you. Isn’t that hat adorable? You can get your own at Beany Bling (Jessica is a model there).

Model Jessica, 3/22/10

Anyway, Jacey and Lillie’s carnival birthday party is this coming weekend. Jacey likes blue and green and I know that his bedroom is getting a pirate make-over, so I borrowed this stamp set from Lori. I made this card for this week’s Stamp Something Challenge, to make something layered. To qualify for layers (outside of the matted map), I used a technique to give the little pirate boy dimension. I ran him through my Xyron 5″ Creative Station three times. The first two times I adhered him to white cardstock. This made him three layers of cardstock thick. In addition to dimension, this technique provided stability. After the third run through the Xyron, I stuck him to the card. I thought it might be safer for the pirate boy this way once he made it into the hands of soon-to-be three-year-old Jacey.

Jacey's Birthday Card

Stamps: Stampin’ Up  Ahoy Matey, Matey’s Map (wheel), On Your Birthday (sentiment); A*Muse Waves
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Kraft, Pacific Point, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Versamark (waves)
Markers: Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Brilliant Blue, Basic Black, Going Gray
Tools: colored pencils; Xyron 5″ Creative Station

I ended up making some extra cards, but changed the sentiment. One or more of the extras will go to Operation Write Home.

First Additional Pirate Card

Second Additional Pirate Card

Third Additional Pirate Card

Additional Stamps: Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory Tropic Sentiments

I’m really digging these Tropic sentiments. I bought the tropic set and the 2 coordinating sentiments quite a while back and I finally got around to mounting them on EZ foam so I can use them.

I almost didn’t get around to doing this week’s ATS Challenge #24, because I couldn’t think of a shaped card I wanted to make. Last night I was stamping some images to send off for a new friend and one of the images was this Surfer Riley (ATS used to carry Riley stamps). And it came to me, I should make a surfboard shaped card.  I penciled in the shape  on a 3.5″x8.5″ card and then hand-cut it out. I wish I had some sand to glue to the bottom, but I don’t, so I tried to make it look like sand. Do you think I succeeded? I also added some sparkle to the water with my clear atYou Spica marker.

Surfboard Card

Stamps: Riley and Company Surfer Riley; Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory Tropic Sentiments
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Brilliant Blue, Tangerine Tango, Kraft
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Accessories: Fun Flock Caramel Latte Tan (to make his body fuzzy)
Markers: Stampin’ Up Brilliant Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Garden Green, Summer Sun, Only Orange, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa; atYou Spice clear
Tools/Techniques: Cuttlebug Just My Type embossing border folder; Sakura Quickie Glue Pen; various brown colored pencils