Happy Birthday Grandma!

This week I was really excited about competition week at Mojo Monday. I really liked the sketch and was excited to try it out. Sadly, I didn't get time to work on my card until it was already too late to enter. Still, here is the card that I made for my grandma, whose birthday is later this week.

I thought it would be appropriate to make a fun, colorful card for a fun, vivacious woman. I love my grandma!

Mojo Monday 261

This week for the Mojo Monday sketch, I had two major firsts. I used my first stamp and I made a card in the "shabby chic" style for the first time. Because it was my mom's birthday card, I wanted to wait to put it up until after I gave it to her this evening. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the challenge ended an hour ago. Even though I can't win the contest this time, I am still posting this card.

The Sweetest Thing

I found a new challenge. It is called the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge. I just finished a few scrapbook pages and had some leftover paper that I really liked so I set it aside to make a new card. The layout of this challenge just went perfectly with the paper that I had.

A New Challenge

I am starting to realize that there are lots of different online challenges that people host. Sometimes they are just for fun and sometimes they are competitions. I found one that is a celebration of the 5th anniversary of Verve. I haven't used any of their products, but I have seen some of the things that are coming out in their new collection (I just finished their blog hop) and it looks like they have some great stuff. The first challenge in a series of five is to use pink, green, and brown to create a card.

I had some cute cupcake paper in my file that I have been wanting to use. I am so glad that it fit well with the challenge color scheme. Here is the card that I came up with:

Little Boy Birthday Card

This is one of the first cards that I ever made. The "happy birthday" was cut out of a piece of birthday scrapbooking paper. I used a standard sized hole punch to make the dots. The orange strip is paper, not ribbon. Everything is glued flat to the paper. I wanted to post this card because I still think it is cute - even though I have acquired many more tools, stickers, and embellishments and could make it look a lot fancier if I did it again. 

I also wanted to point out that cute cards can be design-driven or paper-driven. The theme of this card is definitely paper-driven. I could use the same design with different paper for any other holiday or person.