Delightful Bright Birthday

As a demonstrator, I get to see and order from the new annual catalog early. It's fun to see new products, but always hard to say goodbye to favorites. Here I have used the retiring Easter Promise (flowers) and retiring Delightful Day (sentiment). Also retiring is the Stitched Labels Dies that provided the lovely Rococo Rose element behind my sentiment square. (The Ruffled embossing folder I used with Granny green for the background is already retired, but I kept it a little longer).

Retiring products are listed here and some of them are even on sale. Get them while they last!

Flirty Flamingo Ruffles

I love the Ruffled Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder for it's soft, romantic look. What I also like about all of the Dynamic folders is that they go through the Big Shot so easily, yet leave a deep impression that adds so much to your cards. And their large size covers more area for those square cards or scrapbook pages or 3-D items.

Several people on my card list have birthdays near Valentine's Day, so I like to show lots of hearts for their special day. The solid hearts on this card front are cut directly from one of the prints in the All My Love Designer Series Paper. I have used up most of my pack of paper already! That rarely happens, but I love it so much and it's very versatile for cards, favors or whatever you have in mind.

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Magical Mermaid Birthday

Yesterday I showed you another card using the Large Numbers Framelits and Number of Years stamp set. Both are retiring, but I'm keeping them in my stash. I'm obsessed with the Magical Mermaid stamp set and you will see another card I made using it tomorrow, so don't forget to come back!

My card base is white and then I used Crumb Cake for my sandy bottom and Mint Macaron for the water color. My mermaid has her lower body fussy cut from Mint Macaron Glimmer Paper, which has been retired for some time. I had a little piece of it in my stash :-)

I couldn't stop decorating this card, as the recipient is a girl and loves all things *sparkly*. Those are Metallic Hearts under the "5" and retired Chunky Silver Glitter "dots" that I made up around the mermaid's upper body. Her body also got a nice swish from my Clear Wink of Stella pen.

Please let me know if you liked my mermaid cards so far-- I love to read your comments. 

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Cake Soiree Ruffled Birthday Card

Today's card was inspired by someone coloring the gingham ribbon with a Stampin' Blend mark. Here I used the Light Calypso Coral. It matches the ink I stamped the sentiment in. The stamp is from the Cake Soiree stamp set. The cake us fussy cut from a sheet of Sweet Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper. I love that I didn't need to do anything fancy to the cake, but...

...I did add some pearls anyway! I added my banner with cake and sentiment to the piece of Ruffled card stock and here you have a wonderful card that sends wishes to anyone for their special day.

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