LOTV Bunny 18th Birthday card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors,

How is your week going? I have been enjoying the sunny weather by catching up on a few jobs. It is nice not to be held back by in any way with the rain. The birds seem to be enjoying the sunny weather too.

A while back someone on Facebook in one of the groups I am in put out a request for birthday cards for her daughter's 18th birthday. I agreed to send a card this is it.

I started by finding an image and I based the colours of the card  around that. The paper was in my stash. 

This cute LOTV image came from a pad of images. I thought the bunny was cute and the balloon and cake were just right for a birthday. I cut an aperture with the Double Pierced Rectangle dies by Creative Expression. 

I used the Double Pierced Circle dies to highlight the age. The numbers were cut with some Crafter's Companion dies. 

The balloons ware a Tattered Lace die. The flowers were created with a punch and the leaves are the Star Flower Leaves from John Next Door. 

I did get a lovely thank you for this card which was nice. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The challenge starting the week 17th April at the TTCRD Challenge blog

Challenge 88 at the Scrapy Land Challenge blog

Challenge 16 at the Crafthahloics R Us Challenge blog

Challenge 324 at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Challenge 376 at Penny's Paper- Crafty Challenge blog

Challenge 47 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

The April Challenge at the Always Happy Birthday Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Alphabet Challenge Blog - Letter Y - You Choose!

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good week and are ready for the weekend ahead. We will be visiting my parents on Saturday and hopefully doing some last minute shopping for our holiday which is next week. I am really looking forward to going on holiday.

A new challenge starts today on the Alphabet Challenge Blog. The letter is Y and the theme is You Choose so anything goes. All the design team makes are quite different so it is worth having a look at the blog.

I was asked to make another one of my pop-up box cards for a friend's daughter's special birthday.

This card was made from an A4 sheet of card. All the measurements and instructions to make this can be found on a page at the top of my blog. That page is the most popular thing that has ever been put on my blog it has had over 1000 views. 

The butterflies were cut with some Sue Wilson dies, the numbers were cut with some X-cut die.  The flowers were made with a punch that embosses. Each flower is made of two punched flowers and they were inked with Distress ink and a pearl was added to the middle to finish  them off. 

I like the back panel to stay upright, when the card is opened,  to make a backdrop. 

This is one of the side panels once I had done the embossing I used gilding wax to highlight the detail and add to the shine. 

Here you can see how the embellishments are attached to the internal slats. 

It is just so great that these cards fold flat. 

I was very pleased with how this card turned out and so was my friend. People do seem to like these cards for special occasions. 

I would like to enter Challenge 12 at Crafting with an Attitude, Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 214  and Challenge 47 at the Butterfly Challenge Blog. 

Have a great day. 

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie