Tuesday, May 5

Happy Birthday, Hun!

Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday, sweet Bill! Happy Birthday to you!

It's my husband's birthday on Saturday, so I made this card for him. I love the bright primary colors of Bo Bunny's "It's My Party" line of papers! I also made this card for a Unity challenge. Last week there was a huge party celebrating Unity's first birthday. I made some other cards, too, but I'll share those on Mother's Day. This one uses this week's CPS sketch (#114) and Unity's anniversary challenge to use a cake for inspiration (this was my inspiration). I was more inspired by the layout of the cake's design than the colors.

I decided that since this card was for a man (MY man!), I wanted to avoid flowers and girlie colors (he'd think I was mocking him - lol). I won these papers in a giveaway a few months ago - so bright and fun! I thought they'd be perfect. Taking my cue from the papers, I colored the party hat with my Prismacolor pencils in matching colors and matted on black. Using a black card base, I adhered the stripe and solid papers. Then I adhered the image to the card front and embellished with buttons. For the inside, I glued a yellow mostly-solid paper from the same pack with more of the stripes on the bottom since this card has a black base. Gotta have somewhere to write a message to my birthday boy!

supplies ~ black cs: Fiskars, dsp: Bo Bunny It's My Party, image: Unity Party Brim, buttons: Blumenthal Lansing Co.

Thank you for stopping by for a visit! Have a terrific day!


13 paper smiles:

Becky said...

This is a great card, full of fun and bright bold colors.

Suzy said...

Funny card. Love those bright colours.

Linanna DESIGNS said...

What a great card, love it! congratulations on your DT post too, and well deserved, look forward to seeing your creations. Hugs Linda x

Diane Noble said...

Cheri, thank you so much for deciding to follow on my blog. Welcome! I'm happy you left a trail to your blog so I can see your wonderful creations. This card is so cute. Love the bright colors.

I appreciate your personal description and am delighted to meet another online sister in Christ. We have that solid-rock-foundation in common, but I also taught for years and spent time in a multi-graded middle school class. I understand the 120 student concept!! And of course, I too love papercrafting!

You might be interested to take a peek at my devotional blog, Women to Women: Sharing Jesus. There are currently 4 of us who are regular writers and we just invite anyone and everyone to join us to exalt Christ together. I'd encourage you to scroll down through the different devotionals to get a feel for it. If you'd like, we'd love for you to put our blog badge on yours to help spread the word. We're still pretty new, but God is doing some amazing things in getting the Word out (literally!). We'd love your participation. Feel free to comment and add your insights to our devotions.

Thanks again for being a part of Diane's Designs and I look forward to browsing more of your creations.

Stef H said...

What a fun card. I'll just bet if you made him a party hat just like this one, he'd wear it, too!

Happy Birthday!

Hugs,

Anonymous said...

Oh my!! This is so awesome!! I just love the colors and the row of buttons is too cute!! :)

Boni Boutelle-Jones said...

Love the bright colors. I'm always afraid of bright colors LOL which no one would ever guess about me! But I love it when I see others use them and use them well!!! Happy Birthday Bill!!

Regina said...

Such a bright, fun card!! Great job on this Cheri! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

Kelly said...

Love, love, love the buttons.

Elise said...

Adorable card! Great colors and full of fun: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, indeed!

Becky said...

I am a member :), thanks.

Anonymous said...

fab bright card! Check out my blog because you've won my mini candy! x

Linda Beeson said...

This card is so fun and the row of buttons is just perfect to go with the CPS sketch.

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