Happy Birthday...

I made this card for a friend of mine that just had a birthday last Friday. Unfortunately she lives in another city and I couldn't give it to her. But it is waiting at home for the next time she comes back to town :). I saw the fold again at beccysplace.blogspot.com and it was really easy but very effective.

I'm including it in the following challenge:

TBC# 13 - Birthday Cake / Торта за Рожден ден

Combining Two of My Favorite Things...

This card combines two of my favorite things - hand-made cards and books. I accidentally came across this wonderful blog - beccysplace.blogspot.com and found out a bunch of card folding techniques. But the book box card really caught my attention. Here is attempt #2 which I made using my own dimensions:

I made the window using the plastic wrapper from the designer paper you see. The little flowers I made with the first Sizzix dies I bought. I'm so happy about them because the flowers turned out just perfect. 

When you open the card, you can see how the branch and the sign are on different levels inside.

And here is how it looks like from the side. It's not as perfect as the one shown on the blog, but it's very good :)

I made it for a colleague of mine (I'm getting paid for this one :)). I'm going to include it in the following challenge:

Картичкофурийско предизвикателство 222 - "Картичка с ацетат"

Hand made everything....

This week the Cards Addicted challenge involved making your own designer paper. So I thought to myself "This should be easy - a bit of stamping, some distressing and voila - my very own designer paper". Then I looked at Vilini's lesson and I thought "Oh my, this will be a challenge". Of course I didn't use any fancy techniques because I'm not there yet on my creative journey :). So here is my attempt:

Hand Made Designer Paper

I used clear distress ink to stamp the twirls (if you can call them that) and then used perfect pearls (Apple green). After that I stamped the pink flowers and used Old Photo distress ink to color the edges. The rose is also hand made and I am very proud of it since it's my first attempt at making one. You can see I also cut the leaves myself - pretty rugged.

It turned out making my own designer paper was the easy part. Figuring out what I wanted to have on it and how to embellish it was the hard part - it took me 3 whole days to think of something!!! But I think the final result is quite satisfactory :). 

I'm entering it in the following challenge:

Картичкофурийско предизвикателство 219 - Картичка с ръчно направена дизайнерска хартия