Celebrating Erin's birthday

It's my birthday! And I've decided that I should jump on board with all these lovely blog candy giveaways... so I've decided that I shall draw a random number from the comments of this post. The prize, an envelope packed full of birthday scraps. I recently cleaned and organized my craft desk and I've got a whole packet full of cupcakes and ice cream cones and other fun birthday stamped images. I wish I had fun real blog to give away, but considering how much I love sending mail, I figured this was the next best thing. Who knows what sort of birthday card you'll be inspired to make with my scraps?

So, in an effort to attract as many of you to this post I've made a birthday card that I can enter in a number of challenges. The sketch for this card is from The Sweetest Thing's Sunday Sketch. The colors are from Curtain Call- it's all Stacey's fault that I made the cake these colors, b/c she suggested it on her challenge (and now that I look at it, I'm thinking these are not my colors at all!). The pendants are from this week's Etsy Inspired challenge. Birthday challenges include: Everybody Art Challenge, Terrifically Thrilling Thursdays (celebrations), Crafty Creations (ice cream & cakes). Anything goes: Wee Memories. and Pile it On (favorite things- I can't say I love these colors, but I do love my Fiskars rotary cutter with the scallop blade, I use it all the time- so easy to spruce up a piece of paper with one little cut).

I used the digital image I won from the Character Cafe from their challenge last week, thanks guys! (It was a wedding cake, I just adapted it for my needs.)

Materials: The Character Cafe digital image, card stock from my stash, white gel pen, Paper Source circle punch, Fiskars rotary cutter with scallop blade

Two Pears

Two colorful cards, two different takes on the Sweet Sunday sketch. Both cards use the Sweet Stampin Challenge color challenge of brown, blue & green. Love this cute little pear stamp, the cards are also for the Kah-Wink-E-Dink, Flourishes & Cute Card Thursday challenge to use fruit.

Materials: Studio G pear stamp, Fiskars circle punch, eyelet punch, American Craft ribbon, Stampin Up blue card stock, Stampin Up Kiwi card stock, brown card stock, cream card stock

Sweet Sunday Sketch, coffee cups card

I love that the sketch for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch required a background stamp. I know just the perfect stamp, but then I realized it wasn't mine, but a friend's- and she's away for the week. So I put on my thinking cap and pulled out the large stamp I used last night to make a coffee card. While we're thinking about coffee, might as well make the rest of the card about coffee?

Materials: Red Stampin Up card stock and coordinating paper, vellum, black eyelets, small coffee stamp- Paper Salon and large background stamp from Impression Obsession, inc, black ink, versarmark, I like it a Latte- Stampin up