Birthday Cards

Hello!

Here are two birthday cards I've made recently.  One for my sister, and one for a friend.

Enjoy!

For my sister: I'm loving the pinwheels.

For my friend: love the bright colors!  pink and teal, my new favorite color combo :)

Thanks for looking!
Jenny :)

Sister's Birthday Frame

Since my sister recently got married (see previous posts for all the wonderful decorations) I made a gift using a wedding photo for her birthday just the other week.  I made another flowers and flourishes frame, actually this was my first one and the mother's day frames were the second go at it.

I used a wedding picture I took of their first dance, and then used my editing software to make the colors more sepia-like and "old looking" to fit her primitive country decor.  I used the same flower tutorials as in the previous post and created flowers to match her wedding decor colors, but also trying to stick the the "old country primitive look". :)  Did I get it right?

First Dance Picture Frame

 

Top right frame corner with flowers and rosette

Bottom right corner of frame-flourishes from Cricut Essentials

While I was trying new techniques, I also made a new cascade card.  Here is a great video tutorial I found: Cascade card with Frenchie.

Sorry for the poor pictures; I took them with my phone.  I realized I forgot to take a picture of it after I had sealed the card inside the envelope.  After my sister opened it I snatched it borrowed it for a minute and took a picture. :)

Card folded (and awful fuzzy picture)

Card "cascading" and opened.

Happy crafting!

Jenny

Happy Birthday Card with Flourishes

Good evening!!

I have a cute card today that I am giving to a good friend in a few weeks for her birthday.  It was great that it matched with two different challenges: BBTB2 using a flourish and My Pink Stamper birthday card.  (Love when a challenge card can be given to a friend!)

Here's the front:

Here's the inside of the card:

Here's my recipe:
Cardstock: ACCardstock, Bazzil, DCVW (can't remember the name of the pattern)
Cricut Cartridges: Gypsy Wanderings (Flourish-I don't have Cindy Loo), Cricut American Alphabet (cupcake), and Mini Monograms (inside scallop and circle)
Stamp: birthday stamp (can't remember the company either at the moment)
Button from my stash

Thanks for joining me tonight!  I love how this card turned out. :)

Jenny

Monkey Business

The end of October is LO's birthday.  He turned two this year, so we had a Curious George birthday party.  He LOVES CG.  I decided to get creative and make the cake and cupcakes to look "George-ish".  The cupcakes were great (strawberry), but the cake was a bit more of a craftfail...

Here they are, in all their glory...

Monkey Cake

Little Scary...

He was made with chocolate cake, vanilla butter-cream and chocolate butter-cream frosting.  He tasted amazing at least!

Drum roll......

Monkey Cupcakes are super cute!

Monkey Cake by Jenny is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

The monkey cupcakes were a strawberry cake mix and *gasp* a can of chocolate frosting.  I used vanilla waffers for his face (cut off just the tip) and then used mini vanilla waffers for his ear.  Those were cut in half and used for ears.  I then used gel decorating icing to make his cute facial features.  I really love how these turned out.