On a roll with SWEET BDAY cards

Funny how things work out sometimes. The other night I decided to make a stack of blank solid colored card bases to have on hand when my mojo hits me. Whack! LOL ; )

The next night I decided to dig deep into my scrap pile and pull out any pieces that were close to the size or could be cut down to fit the bases. Not giving much thought to a completed card, just grabbing a sized piece and finding a complimentary patterned paper, plus a card base and stuck them together with my dwindling bit of double sided tape.

Wow, not too shabby - now I have card bases with patterned papers already stuck to them how handy is that?!

Well pretty handy LOL

The next night I spotted some stamped images that could use some coloring with my teensy weensy supply of copic markers. LOL Needless to say I stayed up late cause I was having so much fun coloring in my new HOUSE MOUSE stamp. Who can resist these little darlings?

Guess what happened next?

Yup, I put 2 + 2 together after spotting the stack of card bases all ready to go and my stack of colored images.

Just before my friend flew off to her cousins for a little visit I spotted the bag of scalloped circles we did using her Spellbinders. I don't own any yet - can U believe it? I know, I can't either. LOL ; )

Well my MOJO hit me SMACK in the face and I got to work fast and with much enthusiasm with the stack of bases - now with patterned papers stuck good, my colored images and the scalloped circles. Now while I am on a roll I start to panick just a little (AH!) because my bestie (that's my word for best friend) won't be back for over a week and I know I am going to run out of scalloped circles. LOL ; ) When I do that's it till she gets back and we can have another play date when I can use her Spellbinders again. LOL

Well I kept going till I ran out of double sided tape and foam squares. : ) Now I have lots of cute House Mouse stamped & colored cards all ready to go. Some for friends & family Bdays, and some for my etsy shop. Woot Woot! : )

Here is a sampling of my cards:

Love the 'au natural' soft feel to this one with a pop of color in the frosting on the cupcake.  : )

Love the bubble pattern on this paper and how it works with the circle scallop.  I never would have though of using or even buying these little bows before but it works and no sentiment.  So use this card to celebrate any day worth celebrating with a cupcake.  That's any day of the week for me.  LOL

Love the polka dot distress paper and the zesty green rhinestones for that added bit of BLING!  : )

This one has to be a BDAY card because the sentiment says so.  LOL   Again love the soft colors and I only colored the cupcake so it pops against the nuetral background colors and gives a nice juxtoposition don't ya think!  : )



Similar to the previous blue one but with the sentiment:

'Make a Wish' - I'd wish for cupcakes!  LOL  ; )

As you can see most of the images I colored just the cupcakes cause I love focusing in on the sweet stuff I would love to eat!  

The House Mouse images are just as sweet, but I love the juxtoposition and even graphic look leaving the mice in just the black or brown inked image.  How sweet eh?!

I made more cards, but my camera batteries died and I had to give up on taking any more pics of the rest till another day after I recharge myself and my camera batteries.  ha ha  : )

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SIDE STEP BIRTHDAY CARD

Here's another card made using MY clip art  available at my cathiesparties  shop on Etsy.

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The clip art Sentiments,  Alice image and Rosette are from my kit available @ cathiesparties @ ETSY.  For a quick link just click on the link on my sidebar showing scrolling pics of items in my shop.

Hope this card inspires you!  Let me know what you think.

GATE FOLD B-DAY CARD - Queen for the Day!

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This is just one card I made using my Alice - Queen for the day!

Birthday card clip art kit  available at my Etsy shop (cathiesparties).

I started with a patterned card blank that I've never used before and I wasn't even sure if I would keep them or sell as destash.  The color and graphic design seemed to be a good match for this particular clip art card project. 

Instead of using it as a plain folded card, I decided to turn it into a gate folded card.  This was easy to do since it was already a folded card.  I simply opened it up and scored a paralell line on either side of the score that already divided the card in half.  Each score mark was half way from the edge of the card to the original score in the center.  As shown in the following photo.

*Note:

I used a dry embossing tool to make score lines on a Martha S. Score board.

Next I cut a piece of black cardstock to fit the center of the card (between the two score lines I just made).  I glued them in place using my GLUE GLIDER (tm) PRO (double sided adhesive).

Using a Tim Holtz Die,

I cut a top note from pink cardstock that was previously embossed using a Birthday Sentiment embossing folder.  You can fairly see the raised embossed design in the photo below.

Next I added a strip of pink cardstock on either side of the black.

Now it was time to embellish.  I added my own clip art pics, sentiments, and flowers from my cathiesparties etsy shop kit.  I also inked a couple of crowns stamps & embossed with gold embossing powder to add to the top of the sentiments on either side of the card.  The birthday cake was an inked image I had in my stash so I colored it with gel pens & added it too!  I also punched a couple of tiny folk art hearts & popped them off the card using tiny pop dots.  I hand penned a dot & dash pattern around the sentiments - using pink ink on the (left inside) sentiment, black on the (right inside) sentiment.

On the front of the card I used one of the rosettes from my kit, along with a decorative border strip in pink & a bit of black satin ribbon.  

Check out my CLIP ART inspiration kit & more - for sale today in my Etsy shop.  

Simply click on my ETSY shop blinkie on my blog sidebar for a quick link to my shop. 

I would love to see what you do with my clip art and other crafty inspiration bits available on Etsy.

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