Pair of Birthday Cards

Hi all - I'm back with a pair of birthday cards made yesterday. First up - card # 3 (and final) for the current Day of the Month Card Club #62 National Look Alike Day (two of something):

Supplies: Paper - Neenah white & black;

Ms Sparkle pastel A2 card

Stamps - Sentimentally Your Fabulous Florals (a magazine

freebie with Creative Stamping Issue 130)

Dies - A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set

Memory Box Wishing You (exclusive for Simple Pleasures)

Other - Copic Markers; Memento Tuxedo Black ink;

happy sentiment strip from stash (maybe SSS?);

black & white gel pens; foam tape

Was shopping at JoAnn yesterday and picked up a UK magazine with some freebie stamps. One was the corner flower arrangement so I stamped it in two corners, inspired by Gundi's gorgeous card HERE. Colored both images as similarly as possible and die cut with a stitched rectangle. Adhered to a black mat, then a pastel A2 card and added a sentiment. The "birthday" was the other 1/2 of the die cut sentiment used on my brother's bday card - used the "happy" there.

Since the magazine freebie stamp is new, I'll add this card to Darnell's April NBUS Challenge too.

Once again I was visiting my dad with access to limited supplies but I played along during last night's LIVE of Craft Roulette with Mary Gunn FUNN & this week's guest Kelly Taylor (see the replay of Episode #211 HERE). Here's the card I made during the LIVE:

Supplies: Paper - Ms Sparkle sand & aqua; Neenah white

Stamps - Hero Arts Typewriter Notes (c2013 - retired) &

same magazine freebie as above (coffee rings)

Ribbon - May Arts

Other - Hero Arts & Memento inks; Copic Markers

The roulette wheel spun the following (screen shot during LIVE):

I remembered a box of old clear stamps in the satelitte studio. Found a typewriter to use for the element Mechanical. A website with Summer Color Palettes gave me some color ideas (I went beachy with blues & sand). During the discussion, Good Tidings was thought to include birthday, congrats, etc so I went birthday. For Tie Closed, I went literal and made a gatefold card with a ribbon to tie it closed. The typewriter is glued to one side only so that helps to close the gate too. While I submitted during the LIVE, I took a better photo today for this post.

Made the gatefold with the sand colored paper, then added some panels of aqua. Stamped the aqua panels with the coffee rings and typewriter gibberish (right side got a bit goopey, oh well - handmade, right?!). Stamped the typewriter on Neenah, colored with Copics & fussy cut. Assembled card and tied with ribbon - done! This would work for a masculine card too if I changed the ribbon to twine.

That's it for today - hope you're having a crafty weekend!