Birthday Girls

Good Morning all.

Well today im sharing the birthday cards i made for 2 of my nieces, the sisters birthdays are within 2 days of each other so i always make the same design of card but suited to each girl, i also always make the cards that my mum gives them, so 4 cards to show you today.

The first 2 are penny slider cards.  Last year i bought a die set to make slider cards, but its in a very very safe place! lol  So i went with plan B which is thanks to a birthday card sent to me by blog buddy SomersetSteph, you can find it here my-paper-corner.blogspot.com, actually i think i like plan B better, hardest part was finding which 2 of my circle dies worked the best for the channel that it slides in.  Thank you Steph for the inspiration.

6x6 scalloped white cardbase.  Ive then used a pretty patterned paper and copper satin board.  After working through my circle dies to get the right sized channel for my pennies joined together with a circluar foam pad i die cut circles into the middle of my patterned paper.  I then used 2mm foam tape to attach to the copper satin card, making sure to leave enough room for the pennies to slide easily around. 

I computer printed the sentiment and die cut into a circle and added to the middle of the card.  I then worked out what i wanted to add to my slider and for Sophie i decided on a butterfly to go with the flowers on the paper.  My butterfly die wasn't big enough to completely hide the penny so i die cut a flower from lilac glitter card, glued it to the penny and my butterfly on top. 

Pearls, gems and glitter glue to finish.  I found the weight of the pennies helps the butterfly slide around, so easy for the children to use. 

A close up, this shows the true colours better and the butterfly slide to another position.  

and on to the one for Little Lizzy

This time i used a honeycomb neon paper along with pink satin card and a lovely big bumble bee picking up on the honeycomb in the paper.  Made exactly the same way, i just added a flower from purple mirror card and i added acetate behind my bee's wings to make them stronger for little hands - Lizzy LOVED it.  Their dad who is an engineer was intrigued too! 

This show the pink better and my bumblebee in a different position.

I decided to use the circle frame that was left after die cutting my slider channel for gift tags for them both.  I used left over scraps to build them up. 

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and onto the 2nd cards i made for them, using my new favourite tri panel fold design, i used animals stamps that came free with creative stamping magazine and are actually the twelve days of Christmas, but i thought the pig and calf perfect for the girls living on a farm and winter birthdays.

From white A4 card i scored/ folded it at 3", 1", 2.5", 1" and cut the last bit to 3", it is 7" High. 

I first stamped and coloured my dancing piggy, Sophie took up dancing this year, so an ideal image.  I stamped with archival ink and coloured with alcohol markers. I decoupaged the skirt.  I cut papers and charcoal card to size to matt onto the panels.  I die cut the topper into an oval and matted onto a larger charcoal oval and added to the middle panel. 

I die cut the name and sentiment from white and charcoal card and off set for a drop shadow and added glitter on top.  Stamped age die cut into a circle.  Die cut flower & black pearls to finish. 

Close up on the dancing piggy

And the one i made for Lizzy, exactly the same way, but using this cute calf image, chocolate brown card for matting.  I coloured the calf kind of in Jersey colours as they have several of those on the farm.  I used wink of stella pens so they really glitter in the light. 

A close up, i added white gel pen highlights to the calf. 

Items Used:

12 days of christmas stamps with creative stamping magazine

Spellbinders circle dies

Spellbinders Oval dies

Bumble bee die

Sizzix butterfly die

Flower dies

Alphabet dies

Sentiment dies

Various design papers

Chocolate & Charcoal cardstock - payper box

Scalloped cardblanks - craftUk ltd

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a great weekend. Emmax