21st birthday

For the first time ever, i was asked to make a card on behalf of someone else!! it was a lovely confidence boost, but also very nerve racking, it would not be good to muck up for someone else!! i didn't have much to go on design wise but anyway heres what i came up with...

the backing paper is by K & Co from my huge 'best of' stack :), the butterflies, letters and numbers are from the double sprinkles of kraft cd rom by polka doodles and the flowers are some hunkydory ones i had floating around my stash.

i got to use my brand new bigshot (even though its not my birthday yet..hehe) to make the mount for the '21' to live on. this card ended up very pink, which i haven't really done before, but i took my cue from the polka dots in the '2' and went from there. all in al i must say i am very pleased with this card, i almost didn't want to hand it over!!!

Thankfully i was not the only one pleased with my results the card has been very well received, so i am smugly relieved at the moment...until i have another crisis of confidence that is!

Party Time!...

Next month my two biggest boys will be celebrating their birthdays with a joint party (yes they are still young enough for me to get away with this!!)  so i have been busy making the invitations. Well to be honest its only a small party, and i actually took all the time deciding what products i was going to use (and buy!), coming up with the design and putting them together actually didn't take too long :)

Anyway in the end i bought some Bo Bunny space stamps (the partys in the space room) for the rocket which is the main feature for the invites.  For the inked background i used night of navy ink pad from stampin' up and textured white card stock from papermania. the base card is also from papermania, and the wording stamps are again, from stampin' up.

I was inspired to do the background in this way at christmas card club with vicky, my stampin' up demonstrator, i'll upload the card that inspired me as soon as i take a pic of it.