Birthday Card Swap!

Last week I had the chance to really play in my scrap room, and finished up two swaps. The first was a three-round birthday card swap. I challenged myself to use the same paper pack for all three rounds. I chose the Emporium Creative Basics kit.

For the "general adult round, I went with a monochromatic theme that uses the sweet leaf side of the striped B&T along with sweet leaf CS. The ribbon is from the retired organza ribbon rounds (in topiary), and the sentiment (from the "for every occasion" set) is stampted in topiary ink and sponged in sweet leaf before being mounted on a topiary CS backing. The large eyelets are from JoAnn's.


For the adult male round, I used the Twilight side of that same B&T paper (gotta love two sided papers!). The striped paper is mounted on a Bamboo CS strip, which is mounted on a piece of sanded chocolate textured CS. The sentiment comes from the "say it in style" stamp set and is mounted on bamboo and twilight CS, which are both distressed with the edge distresser. The ribbon is from the retired ribbon round collection, and the safety pin is also retired from the accessory kits that CTMH used to carry (I have lots of retired materials laying around - better get scrapping and use it up to make room for more!)

The final round for me was for an adult female... Used the floral pattern B&T in addition to the twilight side of the striped B&T. Background CS is crystal blue, as is the stripe under the flowers. The remaining CS is Vineyard Berry. Sentiment is again from the "For Every Occasion" stamp set (same sentiment as the first card in this post!). Flowers are from the just blooms white daisy collection. Large brad is the twilight courdoroy brad from a collection and the smaller brads from from the winter cozy brad collection.

Hope that you enjoy the final products!