My Daughter Alexis' 16th Birthday Card

My daughter Alexis is turning 16 tomorrow. I wanted to design a card that was SO her. Purple is her color. For my older daughter it is pink but this one loves purple.

The base of this card is concord crush cardstock (I just love that color). Then I took a piece of perfect plum & ran it through the Big Shot machine with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder. Then I took concord crush 1/2" stitched ribbon & made the back & forth design by sticking it to a piece of sticky strip. Then I stamped the cupcake image & the words "Got Birthday" both from the "Got Treats" stamp sets in concord crush ink on whisper white cardstock. The words I punched out with the word window punch. Then glued them to a punch of concord crush using the modern label punch. Then the image I also stamped with concord crush ink on whisper white cardstock. I punched the image out with the 1 1/4" circle punch. I layered it on a 1 3/8" circle punch of perfect plum & a 1 3/4" circle punch of concord crush. Both the image & the words are attached to the card with dimenionals to give a bit of a pop.
Happy Birthday (tomorrow) to my beautiful daughter Alexis!

Build a Bear Journal #1

This pretty Bear has put on her Sunday best & jumped on the cover of this notebook. This is the 1st of many notebooks that I am making for each person that comes to my Build A Bear Workshop Event. Each guest will get a notebook decorated with a stylish Build a Bear Design.




















This notebook was covered with Always Artichoke cardstock both front & back. Then I stamped one of the circles from the Circle Circus stamp set with Always Artichoke ink all over the front of the notebook. I cut a piece of crumb cake cardstock & ran it through the Big Shot with the Top Note Die. The bear is very vanilla. Her bow, mouth, jacket & shoes are all cherry cobbler. Eyes & nose are basic black. The bear's snout is soft suede. Her shirt & skirt are part of the deck the halls designer fabric out of the new Holiday mini catalog (pg 16). She is now ready to hold all of someone's important notes.
I hope you are all enjoying your holiday weekend.