Male card - BBQ Happy Birthday

Stamp sets used: Stampin Up Voila (dinner plate and food); Stampin Up Sale-a-bration Happy Moments (Happy Birthday); Stampin Up Baroque Motifs (heat/steam from BBQ).

This card was cased from http://flowerbug.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/08/bbq-punch-art.html who does some amazing punch art.

Stampin up - Sale-a-bration Happy Moments

Stampin up - Sale-a-bration Happy Moments 2 & Butterfly Prints

Stampin up - Sale-a-bration Happy Moments

Tip: This card could easily be converted into a male card by changing the ribbon to a simple thick black ribbon.

Card idea & design CASE'd from Tenealle Williams whose beautiful blog I visit regularly for ideas.

Wedding Tri-Shutter card - "Feathers & Birds"

I was recently commissioned by a workmate to make a wedding card for her daughter. The brief provided was: black and white, birds in cages & feathers. After me wondering if I was going to be able to come up with a remotely half decent wedding card with that rather unusal brief, this side step card was born.

Thankfully I had just received my free 'Sale-a-bration Happy Moments' stamp set with the bird in a cage. Phew! The card with the blue feathers was my 1st prototype to run by my customer to ensure I was on the right track. At that stage I only had blue feathers.

She was wrapped so the only change made was to add her daughters and new son in laws name to the front. Even I was happy with the result.