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 love the messages on the cards. The last one (arrrg) is my favorite.
You’re a blogging machine lately! I love the picture of Jessica in the hat. No wonder Jennika wanted to use her as a model. 🙂
A lot of times, I will write up a number of blogs at once and then just publish when I’m ready. I prefer to limit it to one post a day and I don’t typically like to mix topics. For example, I already have tomorrow’s post about upside-down peach bread ready to go and I have a couple of crafty posts written, they’re just waiting photos.
Love Jessica in her hat; she makes a very cute model. What a neat a neat idea for a card.
Mom