Birthday Card Swap

I'm a  little behind again in my postings, so I'll try to catch up.
I joined a birthday card swap on the Scraps of Color website.  My stash of cards for birthdays was dwindling and I needed to get some more in there so that I would have some for when I need a card at the last minute to send out.  And its always good to see what others are doing, for you never know what inspiration you'll get.

So my birthday cards were done with an image from Robert Jackson ... he is a local artist here in Tucson that has been doing digital images of African Americans.  Finding digital art to use of African Americans is not as abundant as other digital art, so when he was approached about doing these images, he stepped up to the plate and is also taking requests for images that one would like to see.    The image that I used is called "She's Fierce".

Since I'm trying to use up my stash, my goal is to use what I have and not go out and buy anything.  It's become a challenge because someone is always creating some new and wonderful papers that I just have to have.

I used Coredinations Cardstock, patterned paper from my stash, pearl accents, lacy ribbon, stickles, copic inks and inked the edges.  So as not to buy anything new, I ended up using 3 different patterned papers.

All 3 different colored cards.

Peach Card

Brown Card

Lime Green Card

Recipe:

Coredinations Cardstock

Patterned Paper - DCWV Rustic Stack

Robert Jackson Digital Image "She's Fierce"

Stickles

Studio 112 Pearls

Lacy Ribbon

Copic inks

Memento Chalk inks

Sentiment - Fiskars Make a Wish Quotes (Acrylic)

Some Birthday Cards

I can't get off this card kick that I'm on.  I know its probably because its so much easier for me to make a card than it is to do a layout.

While browsing one of the magazines looking for inspiration, I saw these cards and decided to make them up.  It featured paper packs that I had and thought, what the heck. The magazine is called Paper Creations and this is from the Fall 2010 edition.

The cards that I created are from page 48 - Elegant Birthday Classics.  There were 3 cards and a scan and print sentiment that was found in the middle of the book.
Here's my take on the cards:

Black Velvet Flower and Diamond Birthday

Birthday in Paris (without Paris... lol)

White Floral and Striped Happy Birthday

Recipe:

DCWV La Creme Stack

Rhinestones

Tsuneiko Chalk Ink

Preprinted sentiments

Fiskars Basket Weave Corner punch

A Birthday Card Challenge

Over at one of my favorite websites ... Scraps of Color ... this weekends challenge was to make a birthday card.  There were no directions or restrictions... just make a birthday card.

So I was looking through my stash of rubber stamps and saw this one that I had bought earlier this past year.  Since I've been really playing around with my copic coloring,  I decided to color it in and use it on a card.  I chose an easel type card and went to work selecting the cardstock and patterned papers to go with.

And opened up:

Recipe:

Popcorn the Bear Rubber Stamp set (Crafters Companion)

DCWV Patterned paper

Plain Cardstock from my stash

Rhinestones

EK Success Cupcake border punch

Copic inks

Smooch ink on the balloons