a birthday card

It's a special little house turned into a birthday card. I cut the shape and the roof from chipboard and then paper covered everything. The door and the windows were just scrap pieces; the card is for a guy so I was trying to keep it manly as possible.

You can't really see it but the edges of the roof are scalloped. I lined the inside with orange paper and added a little pre-made banner.


The little vintage clown head and the balloons are stuck into a piece of foam from a brad pack that I just covered with paper and washi tape. Creative bonus: the balloons are actually Easter egg stickers turned upside down!

Inspired by this post here!

the potter pillow

made for my friend sara's birthday; she's a massive harry potter fan.

i wanted to turn it into a tote bag but then decided that if it was ever washed the ink would run and ruin it. the image is from a google image search i was doing for 'science' and all i did was print it out onto white fabric through my ink-jet printer. i'm considering making an entire series of these from my favorite books for my couch!

tip-toe through the tulips

Since I had so much fun with the Robot boat I decided to try something a little different. I made the flowers using Picnik and printed them out on heavy card stock, then colored them with my handy Fiskars pens. (I love these pens so much! They flow easily, they cover well, and the glitter ink actually leaves glitter!) I think the bird sticker is a little on the small side, but it works. The letters are American Crafts Thickers and the box top was just one I found in my closet. I think I'm going to punch two holes at the top and add a hanging ribbon before I mail it off as a very late birthday gift.

With the crown of thorns I wear...

With the crown of thorns I wear, why should I be bothered with a prick like you?
Dorothy Parker

Probably an inappropriate quote for a birthday present meant for a 3 year old, but I love Dorothy Parker.

So I was a little early

I laugh as I write this. I mean, really laugh. Why? Because I made this as a birthday gift and mailed it off -- 3 months early! I clearly misread Kelli's entry and thought her birthday was this week. I thought it was perfect timing since I needed to send her a mixed cd anyway. I laugh because I very rarely am ever on time with birthday gifts.

So, happy early birthday Kelli!

Tutorial wise, I lost the original tutorial I used for this. It was fairly similar to this one. Straight forward, simple, especially since I've made bunting with scrapbook papers. I did, though, because I had no clue how to use bias tape, have to watch this video several times. Made it so much easier!

Wrap up

Remember this recent post about a birthday gift for a friend?

I finally got around to wrapping and mailing off her gift. I am so in love with these two photos, especially the second one. Something about the darkness and the mood of it.

Here's the card: I just embellished a retro snowflake card from Paper-Source (they have such great sales!) with some ribbon and a few felt flowers.



It's not wrapping paper, it's Girl Scout scrapbook paper. The pink and green circles is the bulk of the paper and since it wasn't big enough to cover the entire frame, I had to use a section of the dotted circles on the back. (Check out the rest of the Girl Scout line. There's some super cute stuff there! In fact, I see some stuff I might need to buy!) I used the same ribbon and flowers on the package and the little birdie card was an extra from a recent Etsy purchase.



Up today: a birthday present for a favorite fellow blogger!

birthday mix 36

Every year for my birthday I do a mix cd and give it to all my friends. Last years was a book with each page contributed by friends. They gave up a list of the 10 songs they can't live without and I made a page with their track-list and everyone got a book and disc combination. It was so much work, but so much fun.

Every year is different. Seeing as how my birthday is Thursday, these are ready to go into the mail tomorrow!


The cd case, just felt with a fabric heart cutout:



Back of the card:

From of the card: (I know, cute, right?)


One of the envelopes: