Little Girl Cupcake Birthday Card

I made this card for my daughter's 9th birthday using Copic Pens & glitter paper.

The cupcake was done with a set I purchased from Krazy Kreations. There is a video on our blog under the Copic Markers post (see below).

You will need the following supplies:

Glitter Paper Starter Set

Elizabeth Craft Stickers

Copic Markers (refer to our blog post Copic Markers for color & shading demos)

I have found that a cutting mat & Xacto knife work well for cutting close on finely detailed items. Just a little tip!

Once you create your glitter accessory, attach it to a card with adhesive foam squares to make it pop up. I use plain white premade cards from Hobby Lobby. They're easy to dress up with scrapbook paper. The yellow strip is cut from plain scrapbook paper that I edged with those decorative scissors you can get in the scrapbook aisle of any craft store. The "Happy Birthday" is stamped with a glue pad then covered in ultrafine semitransparent glitter from Sparkle & Sprinkle. The number 9 & the flower accent are cut from the Wild Things cartridge on a Cricut & attached with foam squares & a small rhinestone accent. The dots on the 9 are done with  a Stickles.

I embellished the envelope with my favorite Washi Tape & cotton twine technique - a homemade flag banner - and my daughter's name cut from a Cricut & accented with a Stickles. I also made another Cricut flower.

You gotta love Pinterest!

Pinterest is addicting! I was looking for a unique gift for everyone for Thanksgiving. I settled on homemade Pumpkin Spice Sugar Scrub for the girls & Rosemary Mint Shaving Cream for the guys. Both were super easy & a big hit.

My only changes were: sugar scrub - double the spices or you won't smell it; shaving cream - I substituted vegetable oil for the jojoba oil - MUCH cheaper!

Notes: I bought my 8 oz mason jars at Winco for about $8 a dozen. I got the coconut oil at Super Wal Mart for $6 for 32 oz.

The tags were made on MS Word. I just did 2 tag shapes - one slightly smaller than the other - & typed in the text. I cut the tags out, applied the smaller one on top of the larger one with a foam tape square, then punched a hole in the end. I tied the tags to the mason jars with raffia, using cinnamon sticks & ornamental rosemary as embellishments. The jar lids are covered with a piece of paper that I cut out using the lid as a guide.

Halloween Project & Cricut

I made this haunted house using Cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings & only 2 colors of paper - black & yellow. It took a total of about 5 hours to cut & assemble. I embellished it a bit with brads & gave it an overall spray of glitter. Turned out pretty cute!

Bird Birthday Card

Here's a birthday card made with Copic pens & glitter paper. Please excuse the blurriness - my camera phone isn't the best.

The bird & leaves were done with a set I purchased from Krazy Kreations at the Ontario expo this fall. You basically make your own glitter paper...sounds hard but it's really easy. There is an excellent tutorial below that takes you from start to finish. The only difference is that I put the clear transparent sheet onto plain white cardstock to make white glitter paper, rather than having a transparent image.

You will need the following supplies:

Glitter Paper Starter Set

Elizabeth Craft Stickers

Copic Markers (refer to our blog post Copic Markers for color & shading demos)

I have found that a cutting mat & Xacto knife work well for cutting close on finely detailed items. Just a little tip!

Once you create your glitter accessories, attach them to a card with adhesive foam squares to make them pop up. I use plain white premade cards from Hobby Lobby. They're easy to dress up with scrapbook paper. The branch was free-form cut from  a piece of brown paper. The "Happy Birthday" is written in The Rubber Cafe's Scrap Happy Glue with an ultra fine tip, then covered in ultrafine semitransparent glitter from Sparkle & Sprinkle.

Here's that video I promised...

Girly Birthday Card

Here are some pictures of a card I made for my girlfriend's 40th birthday.

 

This is the outside of the card. I trimmed off the bottom inch or so of the card so that the top flap is shorted than the other one. I attached a twinkle border from Queen & Co. to the bottom inside of the card - see how it shows on the outside!

 

I trimmed a piece of background paper & taped it to the front flap. The blue swish is a piece of plain cardstock taped over the background paper. The "Bernadette" was done with rub on letters. The round seal is 2 pieces. The bottom scalloped piece was punched from a piece of cardstock using a Martha Stewart 1" Scalloped Circle Punch. I glued a pre-printed decorative paper disc that I had on top of that. You can make one yourself or buy one. I took the finished seal & attached it to the left side of the blue swish with a foam square adhesive to make it pop up a little. The gems on the right are just stick-on Goosebumps.The front of the finished card was given a quick spray of glitter from a can.

The inside of the card is simply "Happy Birthday" written in The Rubber Cafe's Scrap Happy Glue with an ultra fine tip, then covered in ultrafine semitransparent glitter from  Sparkle & Sprinkle.

For the envelope, I made my own birthday banner with Washi Tape & cotton twine. Simply fold a strip of tape over the twine so that it sticks to itself. Trim the ends up however you like...some people do triangle pennants, I did notched flags. Use mini glue dots to attach each end of the twine to the outside of your envelope & voila! I wrote "Happy Birthday" with a Stickles.

Washi Tape

So my new favorite thing is Washi Tape. Not familiar with it? It's paper tape that is printed with pretty patterns. There are SO many uses for it...home decor, crafts, scrapbooking, jewelry, etc. It's amazing! Just Google "washi tape" you'll be amazed at what comes up.

My daughter has a spa-themed birthday party coming up, so I think I'm going to try these Washi Tape utensils (paisleypetalevents.com) & treat pops (ucreateparties.com).

I've already done that birthday banner (Precious Paper blog) for a card & it was amazing. Get yourself some Washi Tape & start creating!