Big Birthday Weekend!

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 ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would you like to see more Alphabet cards in the A Paper buffet store? Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

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,

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