Papertrey Ink Birthday Blog Hop

The theme for this month's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop is birthdays. It seems that I always need birthday cards and never have any on hand, so I decided that for my Blog Hop project, I'd come up with some quick, easy to reproduce birthday cards.

I approached this like I did one of the recent challenges from one of my blogger groups--same but different. I used the same layout but with different colors and papers to create cards perfect for different people. All of the cards use the new Around & About Sentiments set and PTI patterned paper and ribbon. It took me about 30 minutes to complete these three cards. Gotta love that!

This was my first card. It's designed with a child's birthday in mind. I used some bright striped paper for the large panel on the cardfront, then layered this panel on a coordinating mat. I wrapped a piece of Spring Rain twill around the panel, then attached it to a Spring Rain card base.

I stamped the "happy birthday to you" circle-shaped sentiment on red cardstock. I added the smaller circle and the star image inside the sentiment. This was layered on a slighty larger Spring Rain circle, then attached to the card with a dimensional.

Materials Used:

Around & About Sentiments stamp set, Pure Poppy, Lemon Tart and Spring Rain Palette inks, Pure Poppy, Spring Rain, and White cardstock, Men of Life patterned paper, Spring Rain twill (Papertrey Ink); 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!)

The next card was designed to be a masculine birthday card. I have such a hard time with masculine cards! A monochromatic brown color scheme seemed to be a good way to go for a masculine look and feel. I started with a kraft cardstock base and added a piece of Chocolate Remix patterned paper as the panel on the cardfront. Instead of tying the ends of the Dark Chocolate twill together, I tied a knot in the piece of twill and wrapped it around the panel. It looks a little more masculine to me this way.

I stamped the solid circle inside the sentiment circle, then added a light brown (almost kraft colored) button with a single white gel pen faux stitch at the center as a simple embellishment.

Materials Used:

Around & About Sentiments stamp set, Dark Chocolate Palette ink, Dark Chocolate and Vintage Cream cardstock, Chocolate Remix patterned paper, Dark Chocolate twill (Papertrey Ink); Kraft cardstock, white gel pen, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); button (Walmart)

The final card is a more feminine version of this layout. I love the look of the bright new Raspberry Fizz against black, so I used that combination for my card. The flower pattern from the Raspberry Fizz Mix pack looked kind of busy to me, so I broke it up a little with a strip of wide black grosgrain ribbon before attaching it to the Raspberry Fizz card base.

I stamped the flower inside the sentiment circle, set inside the small black circle to set it off. I embellished the flower with a black sort-of rhinestone.

I really like this clean and simple layout (just my style) and how quickly these all came together. I think I'll do some more of these for different occasions just to keep on hand.

Materials Used:

Around & About Sentiments stamp set, Raspberry Fizz Palette ink, Raspberry Fizz and White cardstock, Raspberry Fizz Mix patterned paper, True Black grosgrain ribbon (Papertrey Ink); Basic Black cardstock, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); Noir Black ink (Palette); black self-adhesive rhinestone (Michaels)