Birthday Cards

Today I had the pleasure of scrappin with my girls! My goal was to work on a scrap book of all of the classes I have taught over the last 5 years (I've been teaching for 6 but this year's photos haven't come in yet.) I am making a few pages for each year. The first layout features the class picture on the left page and comments, memories, and quotes from the kids on the right side. The following layouts will feature pictures and things from the students in that class. Unfortunately, since the layouts features minors, I am not able to post pictures. But just know that they are really cute. :)

Well, I was well on my way when I was suddenly inspired by the projects my cousins were working on. One of my cousins was embossing a really cute butterfly stamp. My other cousin was distressing her project. The lightbulb popped on in my head! I wanted to emboss AND distress the stamp! First I stamped the butterfly stamp on plain white paper. Then I embossed the stamp with holographic embossing powder. Next I took my distressing tool and purple distress ink and I inked all around the image. I cut out the image with a Spellbinder. I made the base of the card and the background piece. I used a big ticket punch on the corners of the background piece. I popped up the image with foam squares and attached it to the base. I stamped the greeting on a scrap
piece of the base paper and cut the edges to make a sideways flag. I attached it to the base too. Then I got out my secret weapons.... STICKLES! I Stickled all around the edge of the image. I also glammed up the middles of the butterflies and all of the flower buds. Then I Stickled around the edges of the greeting. I added a few gems to bring it all together.

These cards were pretty simple to make and yet oh so fun!

I hope everyone has an inspired day full of crafting!