Happy Birthday for Muse challenge 90

I've been CASEing a lot of cards lately, but finally got some creative energy, and loved the Muse Inspiration this week. I've wanted to play along for a long time, but this is my first time playing. It was a lot of fun, I'll be playing again! Here's the fabulous card by Marion Vagg.

And here's what I came up with:

I was going for the neutral effect with a pop of bright, but looking at the card now, I kind of wish I used brighter colors. I used the triangle screen from MFT and the happy die and happy everything stamp set from Whimsy. The happy was cut from textured cameo coral Stampin' Up cardstock (retired). The birthday was stamped with Basic Gray craft ink and embossed with clear embossing powder, but sadly looks very dull, despite the embossing :-(. 

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Stampin' Up! Products Used on this card. (Click on the images below for more product details and to shop online.)  

Naturals White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$7.50

Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Crystal Effects

$6.25

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2 Wine Bottle Toppers

I loved this week's MFTWSC sketch and just had to play along. 

This is what I came up with using Let's Toast Dienamics as my starting point:

Here it is on the wine bottle...

I had a bunch of leftover banners and some dieout letters (retired billboard sizzlet) that I let my 5 year old son assemble on this second wine topper...

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Stampin' Up! Products Used on this card. (Click on the images below for more product details and to shop online.) 

Sassy Salutations Clear Stamp Set

$17.95

Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack

$7.95

Paper-Piercing Tool

$3.95

Sweet Taffy Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Brights 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin' Pad

$5.95

Brights Candy Dots

$5.95

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Mustache Shaker Card

This is the second of the "romantic" birthday cards I put together at request of my son's teacher. The first I posted yesterday. Which would you choose?

The layout of this card was CASED from Shannon Jaramillo . I already CASED her card exactly here, but loved it so much I decided to change it up a bit. To make it more romantic, I changed the coloring to black and white, and made it into a shaker card filled with some red hearts.

Here's the card in action.

Here's the matching envelope. 

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Stampin' Up! Products Used on this card. (Click on the images below for more product details and to shop online.) 

Four You Clear Stamp Set

$11.95

Mustache Framelits Die

$7.95

Back To Black Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Window Sheets Base Material

$4.95

Shaker Frames

$4.95

Builder Owl Punch

$16.95

Envelope Punch Board

$19.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

$5.95

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Musical Circle Thinlit Birthday Card

Someone asked me to make her a "romantic" birthday card for her husband. This is one of two cards I put together for her to choose from.

This card was CASED from this card by Dawn.  I've used a couple vintage Stampin' Up! sets for this record card: "On Your Birthday" for the sentiment and the Music Notes Wheel for the background. 

These inside sentiment is from a set from MFT called Sunny Day Doodles Love it. It fit perfectly on the inside and went along with the "romantic" theme. I wanted to subtly color it in red, but I was missing the coloring tools I needed (a watercolor pen or a blender pen would have worked...).

I'll post the next card I put together for her tomorrow. I would love to hear which one you would choose.

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Stampin' Up! Products Used on this card. (Click on the images below for more product details and to shop online.) 

Circle Card Thinlits Die

$32.95

Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

$5.95

Circles Collection Framelits Die

$26.95

1/2" Circle Punch

$5.95

2-1/2" Circle Punch

$16.95

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