Birthday Cards

Time to muster up some cute cards suitable for 10 year old TWINS!!!! Yikes - and they have unique personalities.BOTH cards have a wobble for that fun factor.

First card is for Jack: made from the SVG cut file Ninja Kicks from Lettering Delights. Background stamped white mat is using Black Hero Arts ink and the Hero Arts Chinese Newspaper Word Print. The "10" is stamped using the numbers from Stampendous Fifteen Candles stamp set. "Wish Big" stamp set used inside is from Stamping Up Word Play.

Love this Happy Birthday font:

The Happy Birthday SVG cut file is from Miss Kate Cuttables found here.  Note: this cut file can also be found in the Silhouette on line store here. The colorful paper with candles and hats is from K and Company Birthday Scrap Kit.  I am able to personalize this cut file by replacing the "to you" words with "10th, Emma" on the cake.  "Make a Wish" stamp set inside the card is from Cloud 9 Simple Thoughts - Happy Birthday.

 Yellow stickles added to candle tops:

Fun cards....................have a great crafty day!

Button Farm Christmas Journal

I got this beautiful Button Farm Christmas Journal Kit at a scrap all day event a couple months ago - it's time to complete it. It is a perfect journal for the 25 days prior to Christmas.  I had to be sure there were enough spots for both journaling as well as photos taken. This album is 7" x 9". The binder (Brag Book from Fancy Pants Designs) consists of 60 pages, 15 -2 photo sleeves and 15 pocket pages..........I was able to remove about 7 of the photos sleeves and pocket pages along with un-needed journaling pages.  All the pages and cut elements have been sponged with brown ink.  The gorgeous green iridescent wire ribbon is a perfect accent holding the metal key in front of the red glittered Christmas Tree. 

 I also applied red stickles to words: "JOY"

 See the tree and "25" with red stickles, too:

Inside cover: the Merry Bingo card is removable, it opens like a card for additional photos and journalling. Wherever I could, I added little "pockets" to be able to slip little mementos. The right side has a post card which is only attached on two sides.

Two journalling pages are glued together so they can be more sturdy (original journaling page is the weight of copy paper: a bit thin). The formula for this book is the same throughout......two journaling pages, embellish with tags on the backside, then a 2 photo sleeve page, then a pocket page.  In the many photos below, you will see how some of the pages have been embellished with the decorative paper (by Simple Stories). The photos are self explanatory and will give you an idea how easily this album was completed.

Here's the first of the 2-photo sleeve with cut tags that can easily be removed and replaced with a photo.

 Here's the first of the pocket pages where additional journaling and photos can be kept.

 So now the format will be repeating itself....................at the end of the day, I had 14 journaling pages, 8 two photo sleeve pages, and 7 pockets...........plenty!

Note, I have used one of the journaling pages to slip into the pocket.

On some of the pages (left side on this photo), some of the tags were made into little cards that open up for photos or journaling

 so I skipped to the inside back cover with the message:  merry Christmas to you!

This was a great project and I can't wait to fill it..........................

Geisha Card

I love receiving Jan's cards in the mail.  Here she has used the Cheery Lynn Lattice Frame Die #114 in black card stock covering beautiful multi color Washi paper underneath.  There are hints of gold outline in the flowers on the Washi Paper (does not show up in the photo). 

The floral stamp is from Hampton Arts by Lynette Anderson Taylor Designer Flower. She stamped it on black card stock using Versamark Ink with gold embossing powder by Judikins. Those flowers are using Twinkling H2O's. Note this image is behind the lattice screen - the Lattice Frame is cut out for the image to be behind.

The Geisha image is a stamp: Bamboo and Butterfly Geisha by Inkadinkado #97878-DD. It is stamped on white card stock using black Versafine ink and clear embossing powder.  She is colored using Copics. And, when I get her cards, I frequently wonder: how'd she do that?  Well, on this image, she explains, she made a mask for the Geisha's dress and umbrella, then used a 'kewl Tool-course' to stipple gold paint.  Nice look!  I have to tell you her fussy cutting on this image (eliminated the butterflies) is really  perfect. 

And, inside the card............always a nice touch: the words friend (in Chinese)............

I am glad to be sharing this card with you today..........have yourself a crafty day!

Another Asian Mother's Day Card

Here's another Mother's Day card.  This time I used a "Cheong Sam" (which is the traditional Chinese Dress) for one of the images (it is popped up with foam squares). I had gotten this image from one of my overseas travels, scanned it, and traced it using my SCAL program ( which can also be done using the Silhouette, too). The girl is from the Graphic 45 Bird Song Shanghai Ladies  8x8 paper pack. The paper used is the Graphic 45 Bird Song Joy Luck paper. Yes, my mother-in-laws birthday is the day after Mother's Day. "Mom" is cut using my SCAL program/font is Lobster 2 in black card  stock.  The card edge is a tweaked Martha Stewart Modern Cube punch - I shrunk it down in SCAL so it would fit perfectly in the 5-1/2 card length. The mat used under the Chinese Dress form is Stampin Up Pretty in Pink card stock. Flowers are from Wild Orchid (located in the UK) except lilies and leaves are from the Silhouette on line store.

Here's a closer look: Adhesive Pearls around the neckline of the Dress. 

The Lilies are cut using white card stock then using Copic Y18, R85, R89, RV10.

Card inside used up some of the leaves:

Here's what the lilies look like when they are cut, I made a trial using a hand cut larger size sample.  

After coloring all the petals, use one of those flower squishers with a ball to shape the petals (it really helps). Note, I used a tweezer to bend down the tips of the stamen.

This was a grat crad to make................enjoy your carfty day.

My Mom's Asian Accordion 3D Flip Album

Part 2 of my Mother's Day project.
Papers are from the Graphic 45 Bird Song collection: Tranquility and Jasmine Dream.  Sizzix Accordion Flip 3D die and Frame and Label, Bracket dies used. Corner frame images is a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page: Canning (not sure why they named this punch Canning) that is diagonally cut after it is punched.  Spellbinders Nestabilities Label One for the inside photo frame (whew! Thank goodness that die worked).  Since I have 4 siblings, there are five sections.Here is the overview:

Butterfly is a die from Cherry Lynn Designs: Exotic Butterfly Small DL-112.  Each photo has a unique antique gold year of the "snake, rabbit, rat, tiger, and dragon" charm I found in my stash of things that needed to be used.  This project is the perfect one! Those photos: are when we were toddlers.

Here's a closer look at the Zodiac charms:

The gold vellum butterfly:

FLIP or turn over the project to find us all grown up!!!!! How quickly did that happen!!!!! OMG!!!!

For the photos: they were adjusted in Picasa (a FREE photo program) and color used is a "sepia" tone. It was really easy to do...................I loved how this project turned out and know my Mom will get a kick out of it, too.