Saturday, January 10, 2009

Happy Birthday, Chrisi!!!

It's my second daughter's 22nd birthday today! Yay!!! I made a card to send her the other day. Here are some shots of it along with the matching bookmark and envelope. Sorry I didn't get back to the computer to post them yesterday.... got caught up with other stuff!







I was able to borrow Kat's scrapbooking markers (thanks, Kat!), so now we've got some fun, vibrant colors goin' on. Woohoo!! Anyway, this stamp set is soooooo Chrisi!! I had bought it originally because it seemed to match my girls so well... and I was right!Chrisi changes her hairstyle quite often, so both the long hair and the short worked for this card. I used the slit punch on the bottom right corner of the yellow layer and added a button for some interest.




I took scraps of the yellow cardstock to paper piece onto the two purses so they would have some fun texture. I also grabbed some textured red cardstock for the gift she's holding.








I popped the cell phone onto a dimensional to give that some "oomph" as well.











The circles containing the purse and cake are on dimensionals. Since I don't have a bigger circle punch (long story) to layer the 1" circles, I just used a dauber to sponge some color on them instead.







Here's a side view so you can see how the bookmark is "attached" to the inside of the card. It's one of those over-the-page magnetic bookmarks. The image I used for the front of it is the same long-haired girl with the cell phone; just no dimensionals so it won't get wrecked in the book. You can see the front of the bookmark up in the next photo. I also made one with black hair for Kat. That photo will be up later...







Oh yes, and I did remember to stamp a little flower inside the card to carry the theme through.











Gotta head out now. Kat's got an internship task today! I really hope Chrisi likes her card. :)

~ Pia

5 comments:

Sara said...

Hi Pia. A Happy Birthday to Chrisi. I do like her card, it's great fun. The crafting of it is also great, particularly the layering of extra dimension and texture that you've given it. Sara

Anita said...

Beautiful card! I agree the card is perfect for her.

Nancy said...

I'm sure that she will love her card...it's adorable! Thanks for showing us all of the views of it...it really helps!

Tenia Nelson said...

Super awesome!! You did a great card on this card!! Hope you are well....
-t

Abi Bundy said...

great card!