This week, on the Bella Blvd blog, we've been having a bit of a birthday celebration! Bella Blvd is turning FOUR years old this week, and we wanted to share lots and lots of projects using the new Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl collections. I figured it was a good time to share a few of my birthday cards that I created for CHA.
I think this card was my favorite out of the seven cards I created for CHA. I really, really love the colors in the Birthday Boy collection.
I wanted to have a bit of a confetti look to my card, so I used a small circle punch along with a regular hole punch, and punched out a ton of circles from the polka dot patterned paper. Punching out the polka dots is a great way to get solid colors that will perfectly match your other pieces from the collection.
There is a sticker on just about every Just Write Journaling sticker sheet, that goes with each collection, that is the perfect width for the front of a card. I used a scalloped edged border punch along some patterned paper, to frame the sticker. Such an easy card.
I knew this adorable chipboard froggie would have to land on the front of a card. I thought the quote sticker would be perfect, along with the frog, so it looks like he's sending the birthday wishes.
I distressed the edges of the quote sticker, and adhered it to a scrap of white cardstock, trimming around the edges. This allowed me to adhere it to the card using pop dots. Then I cut one of the little phrase stickers, into smaller pieces, and used it for my sentiment.
One of my two cards using the Birthday Girl collection. Except my second card isn't really a birthday card, so I'll share that another day. This one is pretty simple.
I used the alpha stickers from the Alpha+Bits sticker sheet, to spell out "birthday". I machine stitched along the pink strip of patterned paper several times, before adhering my stickers. I added the little banner "wishes" stickers below the pink patterned paper.
I pop dotted the chipboard cupcake to the bottom of the card, added a few strips of designer tape, and finished it off with a little sticker.
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Make sure and visit the Bella Blvd blog to see all of the fun projects we've been sharing all week, using these two new birthday collections. We had one day focusing on birthday cards, one day focusing on birthday layouts, one day focusing on everyday layouts using the birthday collections, and today is all about birthday mini albums! And be sure to leave a comment on both of the TWO posts we have today, since we are giving away a total of FOUR birthday collection kits!
Such great cards Laura! I agree with you- I just am loving the color scheme of th Birthday Boy collection and I don't even have a boy...LOL! Off to Bella Blog!
Posted by: Janet | August 03, 2012 at 07:10 AM
Love your cards, especially the polka dots/confetti card!! I adore the look and the colors!
Posted by: Stacie | August 03, 2012 at 07:17 AM
Love the confetti card! I have some leftover circles from something I cut on my silhouette and now I'm off to make a card with them! Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: Brenda | August 03, 2012 at 07:32 AM
cute cards Laura!
Posted by: Diana Waite | August 03, 2012 at 09:35 AM
Super fun cards!
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Posted by: Carol B | August 03, 2012 at 05:49 PM
Great cards! I love the bright, fun colors in these papers. The confetti card is the best. I love the sentiment and the design.
Posted by: Bonnie | August 03, 2012 at 09:04 PM
These are fantastic! I especially LOVE that first one with all that festive confetti! Awesome!
Posted by: Kathy Martin | August 04, 2012 at 04:03 AM
I love the circles and confetti! That collection really does have wonderful colors and the circle goodness really makes for such a fun card! The frog is super cute, too. I could totally see using the musical note background with pictures during the birthday song and cake!
Posted by: Ruth G | August 04, 2012 at 07:02 AM
How fun these are, love the circles one and that frog is adorable. These would be fun to make for even me the UNCARD maker.
Posted by: dawn | August 07, 2012 at 05:31 PM
Fun cards! Reminds me that I need to make some....I've got all the Bella lines in my shopping cart...Super CUTE stuff!
Posted by: Sara Rossi | August 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM
You know I check my blogs daily but since I'm at work (shh!) I can't comment so that can't find my trail! I'm always dying to comment so that's why I'm overloading you now with emails, lol! but anyway, I love your cards, you know I do!! I just love the confetti on the first one, will have to make some circles with my scraps so I can load up on boy cards (or girl)
Posted by: Carla | August 11, 2012 at 09:46 PM