Scooter Birthdays!

I love this Scooter from the Wheel Thing. It is so versatile. I love how you can put anything on the back and change the occasion. Here are two more cards I made with this set.

The first card I made for my Cousin. It's for his 18th birthday. It's a little on the kid's side, but I find it so hard to make manly birthday cards. I used the Birthday Whimsy set with it. I stamped the package twice, once for the back of the scooter and one for the sentiment. I stamped Happy Birthday as a watermark at the top of the card in a line over and over. The red panel is actually the balloons from this set stamped and then trimmed with a white Signo pen, but you can't really tell, once I put everything over it.

The second card, I made for my sister's birthday. She loves scooters. I got this really cute set of paper (precut in all sizes) at Big Lots for $5. (I think I have seen a similar set at Walmart) I used my 7/8" square punch to punch a bunch of squares from 3 of the papers and then lined them up in rows. I found this sweet cupcake stamp in one of my Michaels clear stamp sets and paper pieced it using paper from the background. The scooter and sentiment is stamped in Colorbox chalk ink. I added pink button brads to look like hubcaps on the scooter. I added the wire edged ribbon and the flower with a brad in the middle. The bottom of the front of the card was snipped off using my fiskars scallop scissors. I love the colors in this paper and will definitely use it more.

I am lagging behind this week. This card was done for last week's color challenge, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi and Purely Pomegranate. I actually started this card before I saw the color challenge in just yellow and green. I cuttlebugg'd the green panel and stamped the flower image from Happy Harmony. I punched the side twice with the horizontal slit punch and tied the ribbon. I matted it with a panel of Pomegranate cardstock. I added the ribbon and matted the whole thing on a So Saffron cardstock panel and stamped the sentiment. I love the colors together, but don't know if I like this card or not.

I also go my Papertrey order this week with the new Aqua mist cardstock and this Green Thumb set. I love it. It is so versatile and can be used for so many things. Aqua and Brown are two of my favorite colors right now and I love how they came out in this card. I stamped the background with the two Dandelion flowers in Aqua Mist and Chocolate Chip. I stamped the boot and flowers in aqua mist and the trim pieces in Chocolate Chip. The stems and leaves are mellow moss. I then matted them and added the brown satin ribbon. I love this card. I made it for a couple of girls who really helped me out last week.

And finally, I just got my Stampin Up order today. I love my demo. She always comes up with the greatest projects for her classes. When my order arrived today, she included a free set (For a Friend) Which is a hostess set and I would never qualify for. I am so psyched!!! I wanted to make a thank you card for her with the set, so I put this together for her. I used my new Summer Picnic DSP. I stamped the image in Bashful Blue, Real Red and Old Olive, matted the image with a panel that has three red flower eyelets (Making Memories) and tied it with blue ribbon. I love how coordinate the paper makes everything look. Her cards are always gorgeous, so I hope she likes this.

A Wheel Wedding

I bought this set off a fellow SCS member. I got it because my sister is crazy about her scooter and I thought I would be able to do more masculine cards with it as well. This card originally started out as a card for her birthday, but when searching for a birthday cake among my stamps, I found this wedding cake. I knew I needed to make a card for my cousin's wedding too, so it just evolved. I stamped the scooter in silver. I matted it with Not quite Navy cardstock and dotted white pen around it. I added the sentiment and put it on a scallop punched piece of blue. The white panel is cut with scallop scissors. I added the silver ribbon to tie everything together. The exhaust trail was done with the ladybug trail from Papertrey Ink's Little Lady set.