This weekend was busy with milestone birthday celebrations; my friend M celebrated the big 3-0 and my Godson Ethan celebrated his first birthday! Coincidentally, both M’s and Ethan’s actual birthday is tomorrow.
Here’s the card I made for M, using my new SU Whimsical Words stamp I got from the Sale-A-Bration sale going on right now; I really love this set!
I used the same layout that I did last week, with more of the Me and My Big Ideas paper. I made this card a standard A2 size and used Real Red as the background matting and scalloped circle.
I heat embossed the sentiment and used some glue-on rhinestones that I picked up at Michaels months ago.
I used SU Real Red grosgrain ribbon as well.
Next up is Ethan’s card; I wanted to use the same papers that I used for his invitations, so I dug through my stash of paper because I knew I had kept the scraps.
I had a new layout in my head, but wasn’t sure it was going to work. After a few tries, it turned out exactly as I wanted it to.
Thank goodness his name starts with such a linear letter!
I drew the “E” by hand, as well as the “1” and popped it all up on dimensionals.
Here’s a detail shot:
For the inside, I 
created a little pocket so I could slip my contribution to his savings account in there ;)
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This week I’ll be releasing some new Valentine’s Day cards and providing Facebook Fans and Newsletter subscribers a special discount code to use. New designs will be released on A Paper buffet.com before being released in my Etsy store, so make sure to become a Facebook Fan, or sign up for our Newsletter at A Paper Buffet to get your coupon code later this week!
Ciao for now,
