His and hers twin birthday cards

Almost forgot it's the first Sunday of the month and my turn to post over at the Bugbytes :).  Hello bloggers and thank you Pam for having me over to share a crafty project with your readers.  My twin niece and nephew had their 2nd birthday party yesterday and I created two separate cards for them - after all, each is beginning to have his and her own personality ;).  These cards are A2 size cards designed on the Silhouette Studio and all cuts were done using my Cameo.

The base of the cards and all of the inside parts were by Lori Whitlock called birthday candle pop up card (Design ID #40180).  I used the fonts already in my computer to write personalized sentiment before I cut the inside mat.  I made the candle image to be a print only in my choice of color, duplicated that to have 2 birthday candles in each card.  Below are the pieces after printing and then cutting.

 
The banners for the font of the card were by a set of ribbon banners (Design ID #24243) by Jamie Koay. I used the fonts from my library to cut the letters of the twins' names inside the banners. The images were by Polly Craft, colored with Promarkers.  I imported the images onto the Studio to size them inside scalloped square and oval images by Lori Whitlock (Design ID #26510).

Some closeups of the cards after assembly.  I used some scrap ribbons, buttons and flowers to embellish and some foam mounts for some depth here and there.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful Sunday!

I heard you needed cheering up

Hi there!  Wanted to share with you all an A2 sized card I created using a digi stamp from Polly Craft, free digital images from computerscrapbook.com (for the inside of the card), and a filigree card base by Samantha Walker (purchased through Silhouette Store).  I am linking this card at the She's a Sassy Lady blog.

I was not sure how my dull blade in my Cameo was going to handle the intricate design on this card front, so I printed 3 of the Polly Craft digi stamp onto an 8 1/2 x 11 white cardstock before cutting them with the Cameo.  Well, they ALL cut well enough, so I ended up with 3 perfectly cut card fronts LOL!  The sentiment says "I heard you needed cheering up", but I forgot to jot down what font I used to type it (yikes!). 

After coloring the image with my Prismacolor pencils, I decided to hand stitch around it, following the little stitch marks. 

I tied a bow to the base of the card before adhering the inside mat and the front.  Here's a peek at the inside of the card.  The images inside were free png images from kits I downloaded from computerscrapbook.com.  I just added some irock gems inside and outside of the card.

Well I'm sending this card over in the mail today, so off to the post office I go.  Have a wonderful day! 

Don't answer that!

Well I've never done this before, but this is sort of a backwards kind of post - read on and scroll down and the sentiment above will all make sense ;).  This was kind of fun for me to do.  I'm also linking this to the Polly Craft blog going away linky party. 

This is a closeup of the sentiment in the front.  Click on the image to

make it bigger so you can see  more clearly what it says

And this is a pic of the front of the card with the envelope

This card is 5x5 and is for my DD's 1st grade teacher.  My DD's teacher and I have always made jokes about how so different my kids are (my son had the same teacher in 1st grade) so she'll appreciate the humor on this card.  The digi is again one of the ones I got on the digi bundle I recently purchased from Polly Craft, called Farmin' Apples (from Celeste Amberglow line) and is colored with Prismacolor pencils, then cut with nesties.  The tag was purchased from Silhouette store, cut with the Cameo.  The sentiment in the front is written using one of the fonts in my library (I'm so sorry I don't remember which one), printed onto the top tag layer in my printer then cut with the Cameo using the print and cut feature.  I added some flower buttons, twine and faux stitching with gel pen. For the inside of the card, I added a digital element (the flower and ribbon) from one of the kits from Scrap Girls.  The envelope was an image purchased from the Silhouette Store. 

Hope you like my project today.  Have a wonderful weekend!