Heathers Birthday and CPS card sketch

My baby girl (not such a baby anymore) turned 32 on January 7th this year. We took her out for supper to Olive Garden this year at her request. Heather has decided to try a vegan diet for a couple of weeks and Italian has a lot to offer in choices for that diet. Anyway.......It has been a tradition in our family for years that the birthday person got to pick what we had for supper that night. We could choose to eat in or go out to a favorite spot but for years and years all Heather wanted was for me to make chicken and dumplings for supper! Happy Birthday baby girl!

For her birthday card I had another project in mind but I kept getting side tracked away from and at a last minute I decided to do this card for her rather then telling her it would be forth coming sometime in the future. The other project will eventually be done but this one was quick and easy. The card stock, paper, rub-ons and ribbon on this card (except the card blank) came out of the Quick Quotes scrap basket I have from the kit of the month club I used to belong to. The flower/brad/ribbon twist came from a stash a friend of mine gave me for Christmas.



Up close on the sentiment! I love the vellum quotes that you can purchase from Quick Quotes! Don't you just love it!



The black and white floral prints look so elegant with the wide crochet ribbon!

Chad's Birthday Card

My sons birthday was last week and I sent him birthday wishes via email (he lives in Germany) but then decided that was to "impersonal" for me. Sooooo....I sat down and made him a card and sent it along. I had difficulty getting the photographs the way I wanted them to be but I think you will get the gist of it. I wish I had taken a side view of Heather's card also but... I mean well!










The card I made is from a Technique Lovers challenge off of Splitcoast Stampers and is called an easel card. I made Heather an easel card on her birthday on the 7th January and she loved it so thought I would give it a go with a masculine appeal. The directions can be found here.











The close up on the front is a hoot!



I love the sentiment on the front of the card "A Proper Vintage Gentleman" because Chad turned 34 year old on his birthday.
The muse token on the front has a C cut out that stands for Courageous(and Chad!)











The card is made out of Stampin Up! card stock basic black, real red, not quite navy, whisper white. The designer paper is from Graphic 45. I stamped the sentiment in the card using a Stampin Up! birthday stamp in basic black. The film ribbon, muse token, and chain are from Tim Holtz's collections. Dew drops are the prop that keeps the card standing instead of sliding closed. The film ribbon was a lot of fun to play with because I cut small pictures out of the DP and glued them to the ribbon and it looks like real film pics. I like the easel card because it comes with it's own stand and is so easy to make.