Springtime Vintage Birthday

This is inspired by a card I saw over on Lisa Young's blog. I love how she created this basket by weaving 1/2 inch wide lengths of Crumb Cake cardstock and then running it through the Big Shot with the Top Note die.

For the flowers i have cut different sized and coloured flowers from a sheet of Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper. I have then positioned and layered them to create the flowers in a basket effect. I have stamped the 'Happy Birthday' greeting from the new Level 2 Hostess Set Something to Celebrate. This has then been punched with the Modern Label punch and then layered over the Designer Label punch shape (Blushing Bride).

Any questions, please get in touch: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 609249.

Happy Crafting ;0)
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Happy May 1st and a Happy Birthday to my Dad

In celebration of May Day and my Dad's birthday I am sharing the birthday card I've made him today. This is scheduled as I'll be BBQing with my family to celebrate (hopefully we're still enjoying lovely weather). We have my grandparents visiting as well as my sis home from Uni for the weekend.

I decided to keep Dad's birthday card quite simple as he wouldn't have appreciated the fuss of a highly decorated floral card *laugh* And as I haven't used my Owl Punch in a while I decided to give this an outing (along with the lovely Woodland Walk Designer Series Paper which I recently purchased but havent used). So here it is:

I've used the wood pattern paper with an oval punched out to represent a hole in the bark. The sentiment is stamped from the Level 2 Hostess Set Something to Celebrate in Chocolate Chip. I've punched the Owl from Chocolate Chip cardstock with his chest punched from coordinating paper from the Woodland Walk series. To finish I punched a leaf branch from the Two Step Bird punch.

Happy May Day Crafting ;0)

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