Birds and Birthdays

Hi Everyone,

My sister in law and her husband have birthdays a few days apart, so I made them matching cards for the celebration.  Tony is a bird lover, so I'm always on the hunt for a bird stamp I haven't used for him before, and it's a good thing too; he said he's saved all of them throughout the years! I'm not 100% convinced that's true, but both of these bird stamps were new to both of them :)

I took inspiration from last weeks card for these, using an embossing folder with flourishes and birds on it, and the original sentiment ends with the word, "sweet".  I just swapped it out for "tweet", to match the bird theme.

Here are the stamps used:

Bird Feeder

Sweet Birthday Greeting

Extra Tweet Birthday Greeting

And here is the inside and the stamps used:

Popped Up Birthday Greeting (end portion)

Snowy Birdhouse

My sister in law's card is virtually the same; except I made it a little girly using glitter on the snow and a ribbon.  

Here are the stamps used:

Snowy Birdhouse

Extra Tweet Birthday Greeting

And the inside stamps:

Bird Feeder

Back Nine Birthday Greeting (end portion)

At the last minute, I realized I didn't have a birthday gift bag (just lots of those Christmas ones!), so I took a plain navy bag with white trim and jazzed it up with a row of gems, some die cuts and the big Brush Happy Birthday Greeting.  Hurray! DRS Designs to the rescue!

I literally took the photo after putting it together before running out the door to the party, but I think everyone was more impressed by the bag, than what was in it...lol :) 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Karin

So "Tweet"!

I have been wanting to make something with this sweet paper by DCWV for a long time. I finally figured out the perfect thing to use it for. This little bird house is made from a templete by Nichole Heady and I am going to fill it with some sweet treats for an upcoming birthday. The little matching card looks cute enough just as it is. However, if you scroll down you can see that it is actually three dimentional and stands up on its own! Cool, huh? I wish I could take credit for the concept, but I stumbled upon it somewhere out there in blog land. I wish I could remember...I believe the blogger said it was a Stampin Up! idea. I love that it has that little surprise element to it! Have a "tweet" day!