Masculine Birthday Card # 1 of 3

Love the owl stamp!

#1: recipient--brother-in-law

Feminine birthday card

First week of October 2012= birthday card for one of my bosses

stamping, doily, brad, ribbons used like streamers, collage/scrapbooking styling

From the get-go planning the card's look, I wanted to do an oversize, stand-easel type of card for my boss to be able to display on her desk.

The photos include three that focus on the 3 corners that had the bulk of layers and details. The 4th corner was deliberately left open in order to let it 'breathe'--not get overloaded.

Surprise: another New Year bell card style

2012-2013 winter holiday cards

Sneak peek at inspirations for trying another bell-theme card:

Tiny Crafts' has a glitter foam sheets with adhesive backing that I discovered out shopping yesterday. They have a pastel color combo set and a bold color combo available. The bold blue glitter foam sheets were used as the theme and color inspiration for this other bell style holiday card.

To get inspiration for the layouts I merged 2 ideas from a purchased book on different techniques to use for card-making (see photos).

Here's the series of photos:

layout inspiration for bell shape opening

layout inspiration for crazy quilt effect

book cover photo: both layout pages are from this book

bell shape traced and cut out for each card's front and slightly enlarging bell shape so that the glittered foam ones on inside will not fall inside the opening when the cards are closed

views of insides completed

close-ups of inside (left) and bottom front cover (right)

completed cards!!