a quickie birthday card

Hello.  Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend.  I don't usually make birthday cards for my son's friends since I'm usually so last minute I don't even have time before the parties.  But today I actually had time, plus I needed one.  I was going to choose a ready made one from the Basic Grey Oliver card kit but it seemed to be more for babies or other occasions.  And I already used the birthday one from the card kit last week for another birthday boy.

 I followed the sketch at Card Positioning Systems.

 The dog with presents is from It's My Birthday from CC Designs Rubber Stamps.  I think I got a little impatient with the coloring plus used too big of a blending stump.  Oh well, I hope the birthday boy won't notice.  I actually used an older Papertrey Ink set, the Borders and Corners Circles stamps.  My son actually stamped the little stars in the corners.  I used the same Tim Holtz paper pack that I've used on previous cards.  Seems like I always use these colors for boy cards, I need to find some color challenges or something.  

I also played around with some cutting files.  I have the first generation Craft Robo which actually works with the latest Silhouette Studio software.  The envelope is a template I bought from Kerri Bradford's online store.  Note to self, the envelope is 4 3/8 by 6 1/8 inches without resizing.  I actually cut the envelope too small the first time because I thought it wouldn't fit on my cutting mat.  I didn't get too fancy with it, there were polka dots and icons you could cut out from the envelopes as well.  Well, have a good rest of the weekend!

Happy Father's Day!

See, I am so last minute, I actually made my husband's card today.  I used the sketch from Card Patterns.

Nothing really fancy, just trying to get something done.  That might be my new motto.

The cardstock is PTI.  The patterned paper is from a Tim Holtz paper pad.  Luckily it was double sided so there were coordinating solid colors to use for the circles and banner.  I printed the sentiment on the paper and trimmed my own banner.  Stamped the letters on the circles.  I guess they could be aligned better, oh well.

OK, that's about it for me, I don't know what else to write about on my blog posts, but hope everyone had a nice day!