Smile It's Your Birthday Cake

Good morning! You can never have enough birthday cards on hand I don't think. These are ones I really try to make every month I craft and as you can imagine, I have a great stash of these already. 

So if you're ever wondering what kinds of cards are great to have on hand, here's a small list:

1. Birthday
2. Anniversary
3. Sympathy
4. Get Well
5. Congraulations
6. Thank you

That's just a start if you're stumped on what types of cards to create to have on hand. I hope that helps you when you sit down to create next time. 

The card I created today used my beloved Bebunni inside a piece of cake! How adorable is he? I simply love these images. I used colored pencils today to give him some life and I just love how realistic you can get with the shading in a soft looking manner. The Spectrum Noir Colored Pencils are just amazing for coloring these in. 

Take a hop on over to Crafter's Companion to check out the coloring options today. 

   S U P P L I E S  U S E D   

• Bebunni EZMount Stamp Set, Yum Yum Yum
• Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock 
• Spectrum Noir ColourBlend Pencils
• Memento, Tuxedo Black

Just For Men Birthday Card

Who else has a harder time with cards for the men or boys in their lives?! *raises hand* Crafter's Companion has THE perfect line of products to help those in need! Check it out...

 

I used a bright color palette with some neutrals mixed in. I had a lot of fun experimenting with the Spectrum Sparkle Pens with the stamps. I wish you could see the sparkle on this card! 

 

The stars are added on with some dimensional foam adhesive to pop it off the busy background. 

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting! 

SUPPLIES USED:

Just For Men, Rock Star
Just For Men, Street Wise
Just For Men, Urban Graffiti
Just For Men, 6x6 Brights and Urban
Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
Memento Luxe, Grey Flannel & Rich Cocoa
Distress Ink, Festive Berries
Dew Drop Brilliance, Galaxy Gold
Memento, Summer Sky
Versamagic, Thatched Straw
Spectrum Sparkle Pens: Moonlight, Starry Sky, Red Berries, Blue Topaz, Harvest Moon, Smoked Quartz

Birthday Bebunni & Sequins

Hi there! I have a fun birthday card up today. These simple cards are perfect for giving to kiddos you know and love. They love bright colors and knowing that YOU colored it just for them makes it extra special. And who can resist sequins?! 

I used the Bebunni Hip Hip Hooray set. I stamped it onto Ultra Smooth Premium White Yardstick and colored in everything but the letters (BIRTHDAY) with my Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers. The BIRTHDAY letters I colored in using the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens. All colors are listed at the end of the post. 

I love the Sparkle Pens because on an angle, they're super sparkly and perfect for birthday cards! 

I created a little window to put the Bebunni image into and then glued sequins all over to give it some more sparkle and interest.

I hope you enjoyed my bright and cheery birthday card today. Check out Crafter's Companion site for more inspiration and amazing products for all your crafting needs.

PRODUCTS USED:

• Bebunni Hip Hip Hooray EZMount Stamp Set
• Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
• Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers: FS2, CR5, EB1, IG2, IG3, IG5, BG1, BG10, TN1, TN2, TN5, GT2, GT3, BT3, and Blender
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens: Cosmos, Aquamarine, Holly Leaf, Solar Red, Moonlight, Harvest Moon, Amethyst, Pink Champagne

Birthday Balloons

Good morning, everyone! I hope your start to the weekend is going well. I want to start off this month's projects with a bright and cheerful birthday card. My stash was dwindling so when that happens, I try to create cards to fill that gap. For me, I'm low on birthday cards.

Today, I used the birthday balloons from the Bebunni Celebration set as my main focal point. But to start this card off, I pulled in a color palette that I love!

I took a piece of the Shimmering Cardstock in Coastal Pearl and ran it through my machine using the Embossalicious Birthday Text embossing folder. You only see a peek of that behind the watercolored panel, but it adds a nice pretty color and texture.

 

For the watercolor panel, I used a piece of Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Cardstock and blended Distress Inks in Dusty Concord, Spicy Marmalade, Tumbled Glass and Scattered Straw. I used sponges to blend this. After I blended it to my liking, I flicked on some water and let that dry. Since Distress Inks react with water, it leaves a really pretty look when it's all dry!

I then stamped the birthday balloons with Versafine in Onyx Black onto the watercolored panel. I stamped a second set of balloons onto the Watercolor Cardstock and colored them in with Spectrum Aqua Markers (all products listed and linked below) to color them in. Such a fun way to bring in a lot of color fairly easily and quickly. After they dried, I fussy cut them out and adhered them right over the first group of balloons I stamped with some foam adhesive. Gives great dimension to your projects!

For the sentiment, I simply took a strip of the Watercolor Cardstock and stamped the two sentiments from the Bebunni Celebration set and stamped them next to each other and glued that strip to the bottom of the watercolored panel.

I encourage you to check out all the wonderful watercoloring items over at Crafter's Companion. It's such a beautiful way to add gorgeous results to all your projects. Happy crafting!

PRODUCTS USED:

• Bebunni Celebration
• 6x6 Shimmering Cardstock, Coastal Pearl
• Versafine, Onyx Black
• Spectrum Aqua Watercolor Cardstock
• Embossalicious, Birthday Text
• Distress Inks: Dusty Concord, Spiced Marmalade, Tumbled Glass, and Scattered Straw
• Spectrum Aqua Markers: Peacock Blue, Gold, Sea Green, Kingfisher, Red Violet, Amber, Orchid, Heather and Marigold

Happy Birthday, Lawn Fawn!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAWN FAWN!

As a shout out to Lawn Fawn and to wish them a happy 5th birthday, a bunch of us joined together to create cards in their honor with a blog hop! You should have arrived from Suzanne's blog. If you have any trouble, or would like to see all the participants, please visit Jenn Shurkus' blog. :)

Here is my card that I created for the Happy Birthday blog hop for Lawn Fawn. I listed the supplies below. Since it's still fairly cold here (come on, spring!!), I wanted to create a cute little winter birthday card. I thought the snowman holding this little bright yellow balloon among the snowflakes was adorable. 

Your next stop on the blog hop is Lynn. Be sure to visit everyone's blog who participated and wish Lawn Fawn a very happy birthday!

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn, Making Frosty Friends Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn, Winter Penguin Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn, Milo's ABC's Stamp Set

Lawn Fawn, Beep Boop Birthday Stamp Set and Lawn Cuts

Lawn Fawn Vivid Triple Pack Cord Lawn Trimmings

Lawn Fawn 6x6 Petite Paper Pack, Sweater Weather

Lawn Fawn 6x6 Petite Paper Pack, Let's Polka

Versafine, Onyx Black

Memento, Tuxedo Black and Summer Sky

Memento Luxe, Grey Flannel

Spectrum Noir Aqua Watercolor Markers

Lawnscaping Challenge #100: Birthday Celebration

Good morning! Today is a special day at Lawnscaping because this is the 100th challenge!!!! Can I get a woot, woot?! So excited to be a part of this team. I had a lot of fun creating this card. Check out all the details on the Lawnscaping blog to participate. The challenge is birthday celebration. SO fun...

You'll want to because our amazing sponsor, Lawn Fawn, is giving away a great prize for this. LOVE me some Lawn Fawn, but then again, who doesn't??

AND there is something even more special to this challenge...we each invited someone to create a project as well! I chose the super talented (and amazing photographer) Latrice Murphy to play along with us! I'm so glad she accepted the invitation. Check out our projects below!

Be sure to check out the Lawnscaping Challenge blog where you can see ALL the Design Team projects as well as ALL of our special guest projects. You'll love all the inspiration, so grab a cup of whatever you please (always coffee for this girl!) and check everyone's amazing projects out today.

Here is the card I created for this challenge:

I found a similar layout on Pinterest (sorry, I can't recall which pin!) and went with it. For the card base, I chose a white card. Then I cut another white panel a little smaller and started playing with some paper in my stash and cut them at varying widths and glued them onto the white card piece in a diagonal. I had fun with that! 

For the circles, I cut out 6 circles in white and started stamping!! I used Memento in Tuxedo Black for all of the stamped images/sentiment. I used the Lawn Fawn Monster Mash for the monsters and I colored everything in with Spectrum Noir Markers. I used some fun little elements for each monster circle using Lawn Fawn Trim the Tree, Winter in the Park, Deck the Halls, and Beep Boop Birthday. 

I used Memento Luxe, Dandelion, Memento, Tangelo, and Radiant Neon inks in Electric Pink and Green for the little elements. 

I just love how this came out! So fun for a kiddo's birthday. 

Here is my special guests, Latrice Murphy, card she created for this challenge. Check out the details at her blog post! 

Big shout out to Latrice for accepting the challenge to play along today with our 100th challenge!! 

I hope you join us and play along with this Lawnscaping challenge.