Birthday Cars

For both of these cards I started with a 4-1/4"x5-1/2" piece of watercolor paper then embossed them using the EF4008 Pine Tree Scene embossing folder from Crafts Too.  I watercolored using Shades Dye inks in the following colors, Brownie, Forest, Tank, Tidal Wave, Nassau Blue and French Roast.  The cars are the LR0198 Classic Car die set from Marianne's and were cut from black card stock and highlighted with silver metallic ink.  The lamp post is from the B130 Colonial Lamp Post set from Cheery Lynn Designs also highlighted with silver metallic ink.  Stamps used for inside verses are from SweetStamps.com, 926 Hope Your Birthday and 9066 Wondrous Things.

Birthday Card and Gift Box

For both the card and gift box I used Kaiser Crafts Up, Up and Away 6x6 paper pad, Rub-ons and Printed Chip Board.   The sentiments are 9079 Fancy Birthday and 9119 Full of Smiles from SweetStamps.com. Tea Dye Distress ink was used on the stamps and the larger French Flair on the inside of the card is from the XL12 French Flair Stacker die set from Cheery Lynn Designs.  The bottle caps and twine were from my stash.

Finished Box

Inside of Box

Inside of Card

Double Dutch Fold

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Dutch Doors open

Inside of card

CI Paints

Here's the card I made for this weeks Double Dutch fold challenge, the products I used are listed below.

Stamps-4015 Aster, S600 Fanciful Butterflies set and 

             9070 Tiny Birthday from SweetStamps.com

Dies-111 Spring Has Sprung Whisper die from Die-Versions

         DL205 Scalloped Square Reflections Boutique Mega die

         from Cheery Lynn Designs

         MFD007 Oval Multi Frame from Nellie Snellen

Ink-Brownie Shades Dye ink from SweetStamps.com

Paper-6x6 Authentique collection Journey

Paints-Creative Inspirations Fairy Dust

Markers-Memento Bahama Blue and Bamboo Leaves

Pearls-Kaiser Craft Self Adhesive Champagne Pearl Strip and Pearls

Misc-Foam Dots  Krylon All Purpose Spray Adhesive, Ribbon

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Happy Belated Birthday

I was late with a card for my son's 37th birthday so I made this Belated Birthday card.  The papers are some I had in my many stacks of 6x6 papers.  The dragonfly is the DL146 Dragonfly Large with Angel Wings from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I heat embossed the sentiment 916 Happy Belated Birthday from SweetStamps.com using Distress Embossing Ink, Nightfall Shades Dye ink and Fine Detail Clear EP (to make the dye ink  embossable first ink your image with the Distress Embossing ink, then ink with the dye ink, then stamp on your paper, apply EB and heat set).  I added two different border stickers and Metalique-Bronze Candi.  I used a W-5 Copic marker to color a small wooded tag, outlined it with a Gold Leafing Pen and stamped the  9091 Son stamp from SweetStamps.com in Delicata Golden Glitx ink from Tsukineko.  I also used the Copic marker to color the piece of twine that I used to hide the seam between the two papers.

I used a Quickie Glue Pen in the open areas of the dragonfly to add Sugar Sand to the wings.  For the inside of the card I embossed the 9115 Happy Thoughts from SweetStamps.com using the same technique as before.  The flourish is the B170 Mini Flourish One from CLD.

Robyn's Birthday Card

I made this card for my granddaughter's 10th birthday.  I started with an A2 white card which I embossed using the Crafts Too Happy Birthday EF3007 embossing folder then used a purple marker to highlight the Happy Birthday and added the purple plaid paper to the top half of the card.  The heart is the smaller one from the DL128 Two of Hearts set and the border is B109 Embossed Hearts Scalloped border both are from Cheery Lynn Designs.  The Hello Kitty buttons are from Button Galore.

Distressed Birthday

I needed a birthday card for my son and thought I would do some distressing and came up with these two cards. They turned out just the way I pictured them before I started.  I used Tim Holtz Distress inks (Black Soot, Forest Moss, Brushed Corduroy, Bundled Sage and Pumice Stone), grunge board, Tiny Attacher, Scrollwork die and Texture Fades embossing folders.  The Birthday Greetings stamp is from SweetStamps.com.  I started by inking the folders with the Distress inks and embossing the tan and green papers.  I tore the green paper, inked the edge and layered it to the brown layer.  I cut the grunge board and applied the ink directly to it before using the Tiny Attacher to layer it to the card.  The ribbon was 3/8" cream grosgrain that I applied the inks to than used the Tiny Attacher to layer it on the card. Birthday Greetings was stamped in Forest Moss on the tan paper, torn around the edges, inked with Forest Moss ink and attached using the Tiny Attacher.