Hello. Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend. I don't usually make birthday cards for my son's friends since I'm usually so last minute I don't even have time before the parties. But today I actually had time, plus I needed one. I was going to choose a ready made one from the Basic Grey Oliver card kit but it seemed to be more for babies or other occasions. And I already used the birthday one from the card kit last week for another birthday boy.
I followed the sketch at Card Positioning Systems.
The dog with presents is from It's My Birthday from CC Designs Rubber Stamps. I think I got a little impatient with the coloring plus used too big of a blending stump. Oh well, I hope the birthday boy won't notice. I actually used an older Papertrey Ink set, the Borders and Corners Circles stamps. My son actually stamped the little stars in the corners. I used the same Tim Holtz paper pack that I've used on previous cards. Seems like I always use these colors for boy cards, I need to find some color challenges or something.
I also played around with some cutting files. I have the first generation Craft Robo which actually works with the latest Silhouette Studio software. The envelope is a template I bought from Kerri Bradford's online store. Note to self, the envelope is 4 3/8 by 6 1/8 inches without resizing. I actually cut the envelope too small the first time because I thought it wouldn't fit on my cutting mat. I didn't get too fancy with it, there were polka dots and icons you could cut out from the envelopes as well. Well, have a good rest of the weekend!
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