Got Cake Birthday Card

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge has the theme "Food and/or Drink" and I thought of creating a birthday card with a cute bear eating a slice of cake. I guess this can also be entered into the new Monday Challenge that has the theme "Star Light Star Bright" since I included a starry background.

 

The bear is from a Brutus Monroe stamp set and it has the cutest little birthday themed bear images. Both the sentiments are from the same set. I got the star background die cut from Aliexpress. I matted the pink stripe paper with a shimmery peach. I also splattered some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Peach. I coloured the bear with Copic markers and shaded some areas with Prismacolor pencils.

Overall, it's a cute and simple looking card but quite a bit of effort did go into colouring and putting the elements together.

Mixed Media Crazy Bird Birthday Card

One of my favourite crafty things to do is to play with Distress Paints and today I thought of incorporating the card I've made for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge into a mixed media series that I'm doing on my channel. Do check out the video at the end of this post.

I'm really pleased with how the card turned out and all the different techniques I applied to the Distress Paints. I especially love the mixed media backgrounds I worked on and the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamp set was pretty cute too. I only have 3 of those birds in my set. It was one of those "made for Michaels" (or was it JoAnns?) sets that came with the coordinating dies too.

 

This is probably one of the cutest cards I've made :-)

Hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching!

Channel: PlannerBug
Direct link to video: Distress Paints Birthday Card | Mixed Media Techniques

A Big Day Birthday Card

This is a quick one for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge with "Anything Goes" as its theme. In the past few months, I have tried hunting down this Crate Paper die from the Maggie Holmes Confetti collection as SSS was out of stock for quite some time. But I'm glad I finally got it! It cuts out the loveliest flower and leaf patterns and they make great stand-alone embellishments too.

When you cut the flower petals and leaves in different patterned papers and colors, they look particularly pretty. The "Happy Big Day" was stamped in Versamark and embossed with a white embossing powder on a small die-cut vellum tag. I like that it moves around as you shake it. The background was cut using MFT Die-namics Peek-a-Boo Polka Dots die on a peachy-coral shimmery cardstock.

Overall, the card took about an hour to put together because I had to try different compositions and little elements that will fit in. Paper selection took a bit of time too although the flower and leaves were cut with scrap paper. But I think the extra effort was worth it.

Winter Birthday Card

I wanted to use the deer head diecut from the Maggie Holmes Open Book set again and seeing that Simon Says Stamp has a new Wednesday Challenge called "Winter Birthday", well antlers and snow seems to come to mind. Well, at least to my mind.

This is a relatively simple card with the birthday greeting stamped in Encore Ultimate Metallic Gold ink using Hero Arts Many Everyday Messages stamp set. The gold ink is rather subtle and doesn't really show up on screen. I added a punched out glitter gold snowflake for that slightly more wintery element.

Square Masculine Birthday Card

So Simon Says Stamp has a new Monday Challenge and that is Be Square. I just received the WRMK Next Level geometric embossing folders today and wanted to try them out along with the deer head from Maggie Holmes Open Book die set, which I cut from a wood patterned paper.

The "birthday" word was cut using Papertrey Ink's die and the music notes background is actually a thin origami paper from Daiso. Those Next Level embossing folders are amazing! I can't wait to experiment on glitter paper and perhaps get more designs soon.

This is a 4" square card using a plain white cardstock base.