March Birthday Card Madness

The month of March this year has been a busy one for me.

Starting with our club workshop (see previous post).

There are quite a number of people celebrating birthdays in March, including myself. So I prepared a few birthday cards on hand.

This card was made using the Botanical Builders framelits die. So simply, yet effective. Thinking of who I can give it to.

 This is the inside of the card.

The following 3 cards were for very good friend and members of my extended family. I was on a roll.

 This one below was given to my sister's Mother-in-Law, who's still spritely at 83.

This colourful balloon stamped card below I gave to a friend who was my former Stampin' Up! upline. Her birthday was in February, but I didn't see her until March, saving on the postage.

 And here is the inside - more balloons using the balloon punch

Club SUM Workshop 1 March 2016

Still celebrating Sale-A-Bration, the new addition to the flyer with more stamp sets is now available.

Here are the two projects we completed on the night.

Happy Birthday to you!

Materials used in this project include:

Stamp Set: Honeycomb Happiness (SAB), Party Pants (SAB)

Cardstock: Whisper White, Blushing Bride

Inks: Early Espresso, Mint Macaron, Pumpkin Pie

DSP: Birthday Bouquet

Punch: Scalloped Tag Topper and Curvy Corner Trio

Ribbon: Pool Party 3/8" Glitter 

Honeycomb Embellishments

SNAIL Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots

A Birthday Wish...

Materials used in this project include:
Stamp Sets: Botanical Blooms,  Remembering Your Birthday
Cardstock: Whisper White, Hello Honey, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso
Inks: Mint Macaron, Early Espresso
DSP: Botanical Gardens
Dies: Botanical Builder Framelits
Punch: Scalloped Tag Topper
Ribbon: Natural 7/16" Trim
Brad, SNAIL Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots and Staples

Maria kindly baked a birthday cake to help celebrate my birthday.

We even had a bottle of champagne to celebrate.

And the girls gave me a lovely bouquet of flowers.

Mickey and Minnie Punched Birthday Card

My neice, Kaylene is currently in Orlando, Florida working at DisneyWorld, so for her birthday I made this card using various punches and new DSP. I think it turned out pretty well.  She received it one day before her birthday in the States, but in Australia, it was her birthday, so it looks like I timed it well when I posted it off to her, it took 2 weeks to get to her.  She was so surprised to receive a card from her family, but so happy that we were thinking of her and missing her.

80th Birthday

My Aunt Catherine commissioned me to make some 15, but later became 20 invites for her husband, my Uncle David's 80th birthday. So I set to work and came up with the above design. 

Then I needed to come up with a birthday card, so I cased one which I saw posted on Splitcoaststampers. It involved cutting strips of coloured cardstock, one good way to use up scraps to make the candles, 80 candles which mean't I needed 8 panels with 10 candles each. For the front of the card, I stamped the background using one of the paint splotched from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and then stamped the "Celebrate your Big Day with Cake" on to whisper white cardstock and die cut it using the balloons die cut. Die cut the number 80 using glitter cardstock and used washi tape and bakers twine to embellish.

Hawaiian inspired 21st

I have been so busy preparing decorations and helping out at my niece's 21st that I haven't really had that much time for stamping.

Although most of the invitations were done via my printer, we did use Stampin' Up! cardstock and adhesives.

Colourful decorations using pom pom tissue flowers and origami brightened up the decor. 

And last but not least, I found another use for the brown packing paper which comes with our boxes of Stampin' Up! goodies.  They make great "Tiki" columns and "grass skirts" or fringe - looks exactly like dried grass fronds. Used them on the tops of the windows, on the food table and on the tiki bar.  So if you're having a party and need decorations, consider using the brown packing paper. I even used them to hide the poles for the birthday banner and they looked like the bamboo fire poles.

The Birthday Banner

The Photo Wall and Photo Booth background

A 21st Birthday Card

 I made this birthday card for my niece to give to a friend using a file from SVGcuts and Stampin' Up! designer paper, cardstock and stamps.

3D Flowers and Box Cards

Yes...more box cards...I've been busy making a lot of 3D flowers and have adapted the Poinsettia christmas box card.

I have 2 very close friends who are celebrating their birthdays quite close to one another, so it's so much easier to make 2 cards than 1, but I got carried away when cutting the flowers and I'm hoping to use the left over flowers in a window box display or maybe a floral wreath, we'll see if I get around to it.

Birthday Box Cards

I'm on a roll...more box cards.

Here's a strawberry basket box card which I made for my Aunty Cath's 72nd Birthday.

Here's a up up and away balloon box card which I made for one of my Stampin' Up! ladies birthday.

Here's a piano box card I made for a very close friend's birthday - she plays the piano.

Here's a camera box card, I made for a friend's son who turned 5.

Card in a Box

These cards are all the rage and are relatively easy to make.  Having seen some done by other demonstrators, I decided to tackle one for my Uncle and came up with this creation. He's turning 79 so I chomped out some numbers using my Big Shot, hand cut some cup cakes, macarons and greetings and decorated my card in a box.  Not sure if he understood the concept when he saw it.

Materials used:
Rich Razzleberry Cardstock
Whisper White Cardstock
Birthday Basics DSP
"Make a Wish" stamp from Perfect Pennants Stamp Set
Another Great Year Stamp Set
Island Indigo Marker
Rich Razzleberry Marker
Old Olive Marker
Crisp Cantaloupe Marker

I also made one for my friends son, who is turning 6 and is having a Ninjago birthday party.  I hope he likes it.

Club SUM Workshop 4 February 2014: Sue's Card Projects

These are the cards, my friend and fellow demonstrator, Sue demonstrated in February when I was away on holidays up the coast. The "Bee" card was pretty simply to put together, but the "Birthday" card was a lot more fiddly. I did adapt it by putting the string banner across the top instead of sticking it to the bottom front panel.

"Bee" card
Materials used:
Summer Starfruit cardstock
Early Espresso cardstock
Old Olive cardstock

Tangerine Tango cardstock
Spiral Flower Originals Die
Honeycomb Embossing Folder
Bee stamp from the Backyard Basics stamp set
Birthday greetings from the Wetlands stamp set
Crochet trim and Gumball green stitched satin ribbon

"Bee" Card

Happy Birthday card
Materials used:
Another Great Year stamp set
Watercolor Wonder DSP
Tea Lace Paper Doilies
SAB Banner Punch

"Birthday" Card

Birthday Invites

My sister, Fiona is very special to us all, so with her 40th birthday approaching, we organised a big celebration on her behalf.

My role was to design and create the invitations. I went to work on the 1st April, busy making the invitations, RSVPs, maps and addressing the envelopes.  Lost of "dazzling diamonds", glitter paper and ribbon was used in the making and 100s of butterflies were hand punched. Although the actual text and invitation was printed, these had to be trimmed, glued and embellished.  I'm so happy they turned out so pretty.

I was also tasked with making over 60 cupcake boxes. Using Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink cardstock as well as cardstock from the Natural Composition Specialty DSP range.

August Birthday Cards

August seems to be a busy time for me with regards to birthdays. Family and lots of friends, so here are a few cards which I made...you can see I stuck to the one type of tri-fold card, but changed the layouts.