Happy Birthday Ryan!!!

For my best friends step dad for his birthday.  I had so much fun creating this card!

 I started out by blending Only Orange and YoYo Yellow inks with a blending brush.  I ran a piece of Crumb Cake with Snow Drifts Die-namics and the Palm Tree Trunks from the Beach Scene Builder Die-namics set.  I splattered various brown inks with the ink marker gun to create a bit of a sandy look.  I colored the Palm Tree Trunks with Copics.  I used Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, and Chocolate Chip for the tops of the Palm Trees and Coconuts, then highlighted with a White Gel Pen.  I ran the Beach Bungalow through the die cut a few times in order to get all the colors I needed.  Using White, Blueberry Bushel, Gray Granite, and Real Red.  I colored the door and window with copics then highlighted the porch with a gel pen. I mounted my layer on YoYo Yellow, then a Crumb Cake card Base.  I finished off the card with some black birds and a sentiment from the My Favorite Things Life's a Beach Stamp Set.

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Sugary Birthday Wishes...

For my beautiful daughter for her birthday.  She loves Sugar Skulls so I've been on the hunt for Sugar Skull stamps for the last couple of years.

I used Gray Granite for my card base and sprayed Silver Glimmer Mist on it and the Gray Granite Oval.  I layered a White strip, then a Cherry Cobbler strip with white splatters on it and on the Cherry Cobbler Oval.  I mounted the ovals on White, then on a Black Scalloped Oval.  I stamped the Sugar Skull from the Hero Arts Halloween Icons Set in Memento, then colored with Copics and mounted on Pop Dots.  I stamped my sentiment from the same set in memento.

My daughter loved her card.

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Overflowing with Fun!!!

For my best friend, Jeremy for his birthday.  Each year I try to make him a funny card for his birthday.  This year I copied a picture he sent me after I asked him a question about how it was going at work...

When My Favorite Things came out with the Bathroom stamps and dies, I knew I had to have it all.  I tried to copy the photo he sent the best that I could.  I used Basic Gray as my card base.  Layering Copper Clay ran through a brick embossing folder from Stampin' Up on the bottom 1/3 of the card and My Favorite Things Floor to Ceiling paper on the top 2/3 of the card.  I used MFT Bathroom Essential die-namics to build the toilet and plunger.  Then I stamped my sentiment from the MFT Bathroom Banter set on Very Vanilla.

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Thank you Jeff!!!

For my friend's husband, Jeff to thank him for coming to get me and taking me to my car after my tire blew and I crashed on my bike.  I'm so thankful that he took the time out of his day to recue me!

I blended a background using Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, YoYo Yellow, Granny Apple Green, and Garden Green on a piece of white cardstock that was run through the die cut machine using the MFT Stitched Rectangle die-namics.  I die cut the My Favorite Things Instaframe in white then centered it and stamped my bike from Stamps By Impression in black.  I mounted my panel on a black layer then a white card stock base.  I topped the card off using the MFT Thank You die-namics and green baubles.  

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Happy Birthday Connor...

For our middle grandson, Connor who just became a teenager!  I can't believe we are now grandparents to two teenagers!  Where has the time gone?!?!

I used the My Favorite Things Equalizer Stencil with Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, and Taken with Teal.  I mounted it on Island Indigo then on a white card base.  I die cut the MFT Head Phone die-namics is black and the Little Numbers 13 in Island Indigo.  I stamped my sentiment from the MFT Keep on Rockin' stamp set.

I love that my grandboys enjoy my cards!

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Happy Birthday Becki...

For my sweet dear friend Becki for her birthday.  Becki is such a sweet soul.  So positive and upbeat, someone you always want to surround yourself with.

 I stamped image from Stampin' Up Cactus Cuties in Garden Green.  The flowers are stamped in Poppy Parade then stamped off and stamped for the lighter flower.  I made the Poppy Parade frame by running it through a die cut machine using a Rectangle Stitched die-namic from My Favorite Things and a regular rectangle die.  I stamped the sentiment in Poppy Parade from the MFT Festive Old Friends stamp set.  I finished off the card with some baker's twine.

Happy Birthday Steve...

For my cycling buddy, Steve for his birthday.

 I kept this CAS...I used Bermuda Bay for the bike and MFT Jumbo Squiggle Border Die-namics.  I positioned the Squiggle border on the edge of the cardstock so I would get a funky wavy look.  I stamped my sentiment from the MFT Festive Old Friends Stamp Set.  Wha-la...done!

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