2 Fast 2 Curious - Happy birthday card!

It was my nephew's 2nd birthday yesterday & with some of the lifting of the restrictions, here in Melbourne, we could have our family together to celebrate!!

There were grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, siblings & close family friends eating, talking, laughing & enjoying being together, after so long of not being able to!!

And the food was awesome too!!

So of course, with celebrating Julian's birthday, there just had to be a card made for him, from us.

At the moment 2 Fast 2 Furious is out & while Julian doesnt appreciate the movie yet, he does enjoy the cars that he plays with & all things fast!

And he is a curious little thing, learning about his world, by his brother's side.

So this card marched his curious nature, also!!

I drew a grid on the front of the card, (before I assembled it, obviously) & cut out where the black part of the checkered area was to be. Using a craft knife, I then cut out the black squares from a piece of scrap Basic Black cardstock & placed them into the gaps. 

This way the card front was completely flat.

I then ran the Real Red cardstock attached to the Foam AdhesiveSheets through the Cutting & Embossing Machine, using the Playtime Alphabet dies. 

It's so good that some of the letters are doubled up so it makes for a quicker process!!

Then I found some retired All Geared Up key embellishments & attached it with some white twine & punched a couple of balloons - ta-dah!!

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate you seeing what Ive made.

Card 1: Stamps: None!! 

Cardstock: Basic White, Real Red, Basic Black

Ink: None!!

Stampin' Cutting & Emboss Machine: Playful Alphabet Dies

Accessories:  Foam adhesive sheets, All Geared Up embellishments (Retired), Balloon Punch

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Playful Alphabet Dies certainly make me want to play!!

I was inspired by a card I received from a fellow friend & demo, Alison, to buy these, the Playful Alphabet Dies. 

And. OMG! they are so fun!!

The possibilities really are endless with what you can create!! The letters, numbers AND punctuation make it such a great die set!

So of course, I had to start having a play with them, right?

I've been asked to make Divorce cards before & have struggled in the past. But these dies, teamed with a sentiment from Celebrate Sunflowers make this task so easy!

While this baby card doesn't actually have a baby type sentiment or image on it, it's exactly what it is!! Or it could be for parents of an adult child that has moved out of home, perhaps?

Either way, I just love how it turned out.

This stamped sentiment has to be one of my all-time favourites, as a demo. It represents everything that is motherhood, juggling work/ house/ sports/ outside family commitments.

So of course, "ugh" had to be used, just to accentuate the truth of it all!!

You can see my Live video, filmed last night, here on my Facebook page: Jo Weedon Melbourne

Thanks for giving me a reason to create!

From Jo x

Card 1: 

Stamps: Beauty Abounds & Celebrate Sunflowers

Cardstock: Very Vanilla & Basic Black

Ink: Momento Black 

Stampin' Cutting & Emboss Machine: Playful Alphabet Dies Tasteful Labels Dies

Accessories: Adhesive Foam Sheets, Adhesive, Dimesionals, Pearls coloured with Black Sharpie Marker

Card 2:

Stamps: Vanilla & Black

Cardstock: Whisper White & Mossy Meadow cardstock

DSP: World of Good

Ink: Mossy Meadow 

Stampin' Cutting & Emboss Machine items: Playful Alphabet Dies

Accessories: Adhesive Foam Sheets, Adhesive, Dimensionals

Card 3: 

Stamps: Here's a Card

Cardstock: Calypso Coral & Whisper White

DSP: Playing With Patterns

Ink: Calypso Coral

Stampin' Cutting & Emboss Machine: Playful Alphabet Dies

Accessories: Adhesive Foam Sheets, Adhesive, Dimesionals

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