Happy Hopper Birthday

I've had this little happy hopper stamped and waiting for the right card to come along for him. I have a cd container that I repurposed and it now holds stamped images waiting to be coloured. 

When I saw this sketch from A Crafty Little Place, I knew my happy hopper had found his card.

My happy hopper didn't want to be an exact diamond though so I shaped him the best the image would allow.  I like the way he turned out.  I hope you do too.

And the inside of the card...

Paper: The Paper Studio, DCWV

Stamp: Stampabilities

Embellishments: Bazzill Wings Flowers, brads, Colorbok vellum, Dovecraft chalk, PrismaColor Pencils

Challenges:

A Crafty Little Place Sketch

Ooh La La Creations #54 Bright and Cheerful

Crafty Card Makers #21 Inside Out

Inky Impressions #35 flowers and brads

Little Red Wagon #30 Birthday

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog punches

Until next time...

Christa

Happy Birthday Card

My birthday and my sister's (we're twins!) is tomorrow.  So I made this card for the ocassion.  The card is not for her since she lives in California and there is no chance she'll receive it tomorrow.

I used the sketch over at Taylored Expressions to create this cute bunny card.

I humbly submit this card for the following challenges:

            Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #98

            Stamp Something's blue & white challenge

            Paper Makeup Stamp Blog's birthday challenge

            The Crafy Pad's animal challenge #54

Supply List

Paper: Provo Craft

Stamp: House Mouse Happy Hoppers

Ink: Color Box

Embellishments: Recollections (pom-pom), Accent Depot (brads)

Until next time...

You Know Me card...

This is a birthday card I made for my brother. I am embarrassed to say that his birthday was on the 16th and I'm just getting it done, but seeing that I'm late, I think it's fitting.

First I pulled out my striped paper and the card that was to be covered.



Covered it and cut it down to fit.



Working on the snail and the balloons.



The completed card.



I hope he like it. Now if I can just get it in the mail tomorrow.

So I've been seeing cupcakes everywhere. Especially cupcake cards. Not wanting to 'borrow' anyone else design, I worked up my own. I took a premade card and cut the corners off.


I next took a rectangle piece of paper, larger than the card and folded it accordian style. I used the popsicle stick to help crease the edges.


I cut the 'icing' free style. The icing was glued down first then the cupcake liner. Lastly, I added some flower sprinkles to the chocolate ones and used a cotton ball to ink the pink icing.

They came. They ate. They left...

...a big mess.

After weeks of preparation and planning, it was all over in 3 hours. I actually started preparations over a month ago. Using a template I found, I started building the cake. Trace, cut, fold, trace, cut, fold... a total of 32 times. Then the fun began. More tracing and cutting but this time instead of folding it was pasting. But it was quite worth it. The kids enjoyed taking home a slice of cake filled with party favors.





With that cake done, it was time to move onto the actual cakes. I found something similar to the green cake online (where else?) and with needing another one, asked my son to design a monster of his own. I think he did well.

This marks my first time working with fondant. Interesting. Like play-doh, only frosting. I think they turned out great, even if it was almost midnight before they were done.




D's friends started showing up and in eerie teenage-style, immediately wandered off from the party. He's only 12. He's not supposed to started shunning me in public yet, is he? Okay, whatever.


After devouring the food that took so long to make, they were off to make water balloons. I had made 50 myself but after that, they were on their own. Bad idea. They polished off another package of them, even though I don't think they ever tied them off. Simply filled with water and threw them. No tying necessary. Silly me for wasting my time on that! Then it was off to Bonzai Falls, (an inflatable water slide), before finishing off with cake and 'make your own' sundaes.


A good time had by all...but now I want to pass out from exhaustion. I leave cleanup to nature and the wildest animals found in surburbia.