Happy Birthday to you, and you, and you and...

Here are some birthday cards that I made this past week. I case'd them from my good friend, Lora. (Sorry it's not a direct link to her card but she's super talented so you shouldn't mind to hang out with her for a bit.)
I ran the "candles" through my BigKick using the Candy Cane Stripes embossing folder. The "flame" is from the wing of Stampin UP's Two-step Bird Extra-Large punch. Then I ran them through my paper crimper. Finally, I used 3-d dots to elevate some of the flames and the sentiment.

And... I have plenty more to make some more birthday cards very soon!! They seriously went together so fast, I think Grandma will get some of these for her bazaar too!!

Oh and! I almost forgot to tell you... It's crop time again at CardMaker. Click here to see all the excitement!! The theme is "Birthday Party!!"

Let Me Make You Something Marvelous!

This is for a challenge over on CardMaker The challenge was to make a card using purple and lace.

I thought to myself: "This should be easy. I like purple and I love lace." The only problem was that I couldn't find any lace in my stash! What?? I know!!

But, after a shopping trip with my friend, Heather for her birthday, I had the ribbon/lace you see on the card.

I guess it's not technically lace but it's pretty to me. :)

PS- The pictures look all hazy like I got a new lens or something. Ha! It's just mega humid here and when I walked outside my camera fogged up!