Bird and Flower Birthday Cards

Thursday Thirteen 408: Birthday Review

For lack of time or other ideas this week -- what I received for my birthday:


01. Cricut Explore One -- For the non-crafters, this is a die-cut machine. You can buy a variety of dies, or -- with the version I have -- you can go online to their website. You can use cardstock, vinyl or even fabric for your designs.
02. DVD -- Ever After (replaces favorite movie on VHS)
03. DVD -- The Christmas Card
04. Small Box of Chocolates (truffles)
05. Bag of Ghirardelli -- Dark Chocolate Raspberry
06. Christmas Cross-stitch Ornament Kit -- and yes, people already picked which one they want, LOL.
07. Gift Card for Cheesecake Factory
08. Gift Card for Barnes & Noble
09. Kindle Fire Tablet
10. Gift Card for Amazon
11. A Mickey Mouse watch -- the band on the one I usually wore to work broke the week before my birthday.
12. Dinner and dessert (Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake)
13. Mystery gift -- a friend left me a present at another friend's home, but friend forgot to bring it




LINKING TO: Thursday Thirteen

Fall Birthday Collection

A few fall birthday cards for the ladies . . .

I love this stamp, and have one more in that series ("Reese") -- I didn't discover them until they were on clearance, so missed getting others that went with them. Greeting on the inside is from Endless Creations and says, "Happy Birthday / Hoping this greeting finds you celebrating in style!"


Stamps: Julia (Stampendous)
Paper: DCWV, Recollections
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: Colored pencils, blender pen, oval punches (Marvy), Computer printed gretting, Word Window punch (Stampin' Up)

Birthday cake, anyone?

A friend's son baked me a birthday cake this weekend. Yes, an 18-year-old boy who not only knows how, but actually likes to cook and bake.

Last year he made me a Boston Cream Cake, which was okay. I must confess, I much prefer this year's offering, triple chocolate—it's Double Dutch Chocolate with mini chocolate chips and chocolate frosting. In other words, a chocoholic's dream.

Who's up for a slice?

{Birthday Sentiments} card set

This is a set of ten birthday cards made for my own use. The stamps are a clear set I have not used much and are from one of my favorite companies, Inkadinkado. I tried to use coordinating paper scraps with a vintage look for these cards. Most of the images are popped up with dimensionals. The colors and style make them ideal for male or female, and though some are similar, they are all different. Click on any photo for a better view.



This is my least favorite image in the set. It is larger than the others, taking up most of the card front. I'm thinking it might work better with a tall, skinny card -- might have to play around with that . . .





Three of the cards side by side.




MATERIALS

Stamps: Birthday Sentiments (Inkadinkado)
Paper: Wausaus Paper (white), DCWV (some designer paper), Assorted paper scraps
Ink: Basic Black (Stampin' Up)
Accessories: Brads, Dimensionals, Scalloped Edge border punch (Stampin' Up), Unknown border punch*


* I have no idea how I acquired this punch...whether a friend gave it to me as a gift or I purchased it on my own. There is no company name on the punch, which is unusual, and is making it difficult for me to find the name of the punch. I am fairly certain it is not from Stampin' Up, as their name is printed prominently on other punches I have by them. I do not think it is by Fiskars, as their name is on other products of their I own. It does not look like a Martha Stewart. Hindsight being what it is, I should have checked for company/product name when i opened it, and made my own label when I found none on it.




The unidentified border punch



Sea-faring Birthday Cards

A set of cards made one evening earlier this month, for upcoming birthdays. I stamped these images a couple years ago, and have been trying to use some of them up--not always an easy task.

The first two cards are a variation of SC367, a recent sketch challenge at SCS.





Card number three more clsoely fits SC367:



Card number for is another slight variation:



And card five started out following the sketch, but the image panel was too big, so another (slight) variation on a theme:



MATERIALS

Stamps: Pelican (Calm Seas, Stampin' Up); Three boats (Set Sail, SU); Tall Sailboat (Winds of Grace, SU); Let's Celebrate (On Your Birthday, SU)
Paper: White (Wausau Paper), Patterned (DCWV)
Ink: Night of Navy (SU)
Accessories: Brads, Rub-ons (birthday greetings), square punches (Marvy)

CAS Birthday Cards

Here are a couple of quick CAS (clean and simple) birthday cards I threw together Sunday night while watching (listening to) the Grammy Awards. As you can see, there is no stamping on either of these, mostly just a few paper scraps and some dimensional stickers.

I apologize for such dark photos. There's a reason I usually try to photograph my creations during the morning, when there is natural light coming in the windows. Alas, I wanted to get these out in the mail, so could not wait to photograph them in the morning. If I had, I would have forgotten to do it, and then they would have been even later going out than they already are.







PAPER: Kraft, assorted paper scraps
ACCESSORIES: Dimensional stickers (unknown company), grosgrain ribbon

Pheasant Birthday

Here's a fall-themed birthdya card using left-over components of the Thanksgiving cards posted Friday.





STAMPS: Autumn Days (SU), Fall Studio (Leaf—Clear and Simple Stamps)
PAPER: "Cypress" color pack (The Paper Company), White (Wausau Paper)
INK: Basic Brown, More Mustard
ACCESSORIES: Leaves & Acorns (Sizzlits from Sizzix), Sizzix Sidekick, Top Note Die (SU), Word Window Punch (SU)

Masculine Birthday Card

Made for my BIL last month. The stamp is from Tim Holtz, paper DCWV, and the greeting printed on the computer.

Thursday Thirteen 192: Pisces Writers

In honor of this week's birthday, I give you thirteen famous Pisces writers—click on any link to learn about them. I have only read about half of them. You?


FEB 19: Amy Tan
FEB 19: Laurel K. Hamilton
FEB 21: Anaïs Nin
FEB 21: W.H. Auden
FEB 21: Chuck Palahniuk
FEB 28: Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)
MAR 2: Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
MAR 6: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
MAR 8: Oliver Wendell Holmes
MAR 12: Jack Kerouac
MAR 12: Carl Hiaasen
MAR 16: Alice Hoffman
MAR 18: John Updike



LINKS TO OTHER THURSDAY THIRTEENS:(Please leave your link if this is your first visit!)
Maddy Barone * Bratty * Savannah Chase Shelley Munro * Alice Audrey * Kimberly Menozzi Xakara * CountryDew * Jennifer Leeland * Colleen
Darla M Sands * Mary Quast * Jeanne St James Tatiana Caldwell * Paige Tyler * I Beati

Birthday w/ Gift Card Enclosure

This is a card we made at a Stampin' Up workshop a couple weeks ago (the same day we made the sympathy card, posted previously. The front flap is folded back, a slot punched to insert the gift card, and then the flap is adhered along the open three edges. Gift card tucks behind the greeting panel adhered to folded back flap. Looks complicated, but is really easy peasy to make.

Cinderella card

This is the birthday card I made for The Bug's birthday. Cinderella and flower stamps are by EK Success. Image was colored with colored pencils and blender pen.

Surfing Barbie Cake

Here is a look at the cake my sister made my niece for her birthday. The Bug wanted a surfboard cake--in the actual shape of a surfboard riding the waves. My sister compromised by finding images online, printing and cutting them out, and mounting them on the cake with toothpicks. Swedish Fish (the gummy candy) were added to top of the cake, and on top of the vanilla cupcakes (because some people don't like chocolate...rolls eyes). My niece, being the easy-going girl she is, was pleased with this arrangement.

Birthday Tree

A ten-minute birthday card...


Stamps: Forest Friends, Birthday Whimsy (Stampin' Up)
Paper: DCWV
Ink: Avocado Green (SU)
Accessories: Grosgrain Ribbon (JoAnn's)

Book her!

Some of my friends think they know me pretty well...

One journal, four books, and a gift card to buy three more books -- I guess they do know me! *vbg*

Thursday Thirteen 144: Birthdays

Fabulous People Born on March 4:


1. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Composer (1678)

2. Benjamin Waterhouse, physician, smallpox vaccine pioneer (1754)

3. Johann Wyss, Swiss folklorist/writer, Swiss Family Robinson (1782)

4. Knute Rockne, American football player and Notre Dame coach (1888)

5. Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (1889)

6. John Garfield, actor, (The Postman Always Rings Twice) (1912)

7. Barbara McNair, singer and actress (1934)

8. Paula Prentiss, Actress (Where the Boys Are) (1938)

9. James Ellroy, American Writer (1948)

10. Emilio Estefan, musician/producer (1950)

11. Patricia Heaton, Actress (Everybody Loves Raymond) (1958)

12. Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author (The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns) and physician (1965)

13. ME! (yeah, like I'm saying what year)



LINKS TO OTHER THURSDAY THIRTEENS:
(Please leave your link if this is your first visit!)

Alice Audrey * Hootin' Anni * Ms Menozzi * Stephanie Adkins
Shelley Munro * Adelle Laudan * Colleen * Journeywoman
Ella Drake * Kaye * Jana * Jeanne St. James * Elise Logan
Jennifer McKenzie * Bryn Donovan * Sasha Devlin
Paige Tyler * Tatiana Caldwell * A. Catherine Noon * Mary Quast

More Thursday Thirteen participants

Party Girl

A card made for my niece's fifth birthday. Image is from my Mary Engelbreit page-a-day calendar. Paper is DCWV, ribbon from JoAnn's. Ribbon flowers by unknown vendor.

Up In Smoke

A birthday card made for a friend, using an
image from my Mary Engelbreit page-a-day calendar.

Let's hope she still has a sense of humor, hehe...

Stop and Smell the Flowers

A birthday card for one of my nieces...

Stamps: Scene in a Garden (Stampin' Up), Vintage Picnic Sentiments (PapertreyInk)
Paper: DCWV
Ink: Basic Black, Perfect Plum
Accessories: Colored pencils and blender pen

{Java}

Happy Birthday, Viola!

Stamps: Special Thoughts (Coffee --Inkadinkado), Birthday Whimsy (greeting--Stampin' Up)
Paper: DCWV
Ink: Basic Brown (SU)