Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A Super Fun Birthday

Some of my new Hero Arts stamps arrived on Christmas Eve but I couldn't play with them 'til last night after some of our house guests left. They were staying in my craft room so I couldn't craft late at night like I love to do. You can only imagine how I felt! LOL I had to whip up a quick birthday card for a friend of mine who has a birthday on the second day of the year. This sentiment from Good Friends is perfect for him because he has an eight-month-old daughter, rides a motorcycle and races boats. 'Super fun', eh? ;) I used the Newspaper Skyline on the card base. This stamp had to come live with me! The dies were a Christmas gift from my brother-in-law and nephew, and the papers were one of many gifts from Angela. Thank you!! I also love that I finally have a tiny attacher. It felt so good to play with new craft supplies! I hope you're all finding a bit of time to wind down, too. :)

Sources: Gina K Designs pure luxury kraft cardstock; My Mind's Eye Away We Go paper pad; Hero Arts Good Friends & Newspaper Skyline; Memories black ink; Hero Arts poppy chalk ink; MFT Die-namics Layered Label Die; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher & staples; foam tape

16 comments:

Emily Keaton said...

Cool card, Emily!! Sounds like it will be perfect for its recipient. Have fun playing with your new crafting goodies!!!

Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin) said...

Fun!!! Love how you used a staple, what a great idea.

Scrapowe Sosasowisko said...

This card is super ... cute :)

Chunyuan said...

love your card. great color of stmaping and coordination of labels. I was just looking at the newspaper city scape yesterday.

Lynn said...

Oh I hear you...isn't is so soothing to get back to making cards after you haven't been able to for a few days!

Love your card...the background skyline is gorgeous.

~amy~ said...

super FUN card....I'm looking forward to crafting after I do some bloggie catch up:)

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

SUPER cute card!! LOVE the papers and those little staples;) YOU ROCK!

Jingle said...

I absolutely love this card! Fabulous!

Annette Allen said...

Fabulous card...so glad you got some of your new Hero Arts...and congrats on winning the challenge at Hero Arts...those cards where amazing..

Unknown said...

LOVE this!!! the color combo is fab...and...congrats on your HA win!!! so well deserved :)

Angela said...

Ack! I broke down and got that skyline stamp, too -- you beat me to it! So cool on this card...and now I want/need those dies, dang it.

I'm getting forgetful in my old age... I had to think really, really hard about where those papers came from! Ha.

Karenladd said...

Oh, I know exactly how you felt about not being able to get into your craft room! My craft room is also our guest room and I couldn't use it for TWO WEEKS! Spent the last 2 days making up for it!

Meg said...

Oooh, so many new goodies to play with! Looks like you sure are having fun with them!

Jessi Fogan said...

What a fun card for a New Year's birthday :) Love it!

Lindsey said...

This is such a fun way to make a masculine card -- love the layered sentiment and the skyline on kraft. (And I can't believe you let people SLEEP in your craft room! :P)

Anonymous said...

super amazing card and so perfect for a new year birthday!!!