Birthday Card: Dressed in Twine, Part IV - Top Load Notecard Holders

On the day I started this project, I received my very first batch of bakers twine in the mail. I ordered several samples from SeeSpotStamp's Etsy Store after doing calculations upon calculations of the cost per yard for all the bakers twine sold on Etsy. SeeSpotStamp had the best price for nice colors at about 6cents per yard. Can't beat that considering other brands were coming to 20cents per yard.

Lets regress to the elements that comprise of this project:

[Theme] This project got it's pink theme because I wanted to use the Cherry colored bakers twine

[Dress Form Shape] Because the theme was pink, I chose to use Silhouette's dress form shape. I make it a habit to open Silhouette Studio each week to download the free shape of the week. The dress form was that weeks shape.
[Birthday cutout] How dull would it have been if I just made the text straight across? Luckily I stumbled upon this Silhouette tutorial that demonstrates the ease of laying out text along a line or a shape. I should have known that the font was going to cut real thin. Unlike the other two holders, I had to reinforce this one because it was too flimsy alone. I glued a 3"x3" square piece of cream colored cardstock that was stamped using a circle pattern rubber stamp and distress ink.
And this birthday card for my sister concludes the Top Load Notecard Holder sequence!

Open Gate Birthday Wishes

I gave this Cuttlebug challenge a try - too bad I was one day too late.

Bon Voyage Transparent Card: Taking flight!

I needed A LOT of inspiration to make this Bon Voyage card. After my disaster of a 'Aging like fine wine' Birthday Card, I had to make this next card a good one. Especially since the recipient and the signers are people who are all very talented artists.

I searched the words 'bon voyage' in Google Reader (basically searching all the blogs I subscribe to) and found this Eat Drink Chic inspiration post. I went with the plane in flight, gave it a little message in tow, stuck with my transparent card theme, and incorporated photos of his friends who will dearly miss him.

Here are the raw parts cut and also sketched using my Silhouette:

And here is everything put together.

A Dino-mite Birthday Card?

Inspired by some Member Gallery photos on Two Peas In a Bucket, this dinosaur birthday card was 4 evenings in the making.

It's not my best work, not even good work. To be honest, I don't like it at all. Maybe it was the choice of colors but it looks like a kindergarten project. But, it did take me a while and is probably the most involved card I've made to date.

The paper used for the trees were printed with an argyle pattern. Then each dinosaur and tree was cut using the Silhouette SD then colored using Distress Ink - Antique Linen. A little bit of gold pigment ink was added to the dinosaurs and then finally I used a happy birthday stamp to randomly stamp the dinosaurs using distress ink again. The banner was made using Illustrator based on instructions found on the web and were touched up with distress ink as well. I got the depth perception I was looking for but SOMETHING is missing. What is it???

On the bright side, I got to finally use my stamp from China. Looks neats!

Wedding Cards: Four Weddings Part II

I really should have been sleeping last night. But look at all the pretty fonts, flock, distress ink and paper!!

Fonts: Hurricane, Sunshine in My Soul, KR Heartalicious, Flower Ornaments