Birthday AND a Baby?!?

We threw a surprise Baby Shower/Birthday Lunch for one of my scrappy friends at work and I made this card for everyone to sign. I used the CMWC15 sketch from the PTI forum, kinda. I had just gotten the Green Thumbs set from Papertrey Ink and was itching to try it. I used the rock & roll method for the flowers, I'm still workin' on it :P.

The neat thing with this card was making a slot for a gift card. I saw this on someone's site but I don't remember where- I'll be sure to post where when I do. Before you adhere the layer to the card base you cut a slit just a little larger than the gift card and use a circle punch to punch a half circle. Then stick your layer on but be sure to leave the middle adhesive free.

Fine Print:
Stamps: Green Thumbs, Bitty Baby Blessings, Women of Life additions (&), B&C Monogram Edition
Paper: SU! Kraft, PTI White, Spring Moss, Misc. Lavender CS, Bitty Baby Blessings DP
Ink: SU! Lavender Lace, Almost Amethyst, PTI Lemon Tart, Summer Sunrise, Palette Charcoal
Accessories: PTI Spring moss Grossgrain ribbon, Sakura Glitter Pen, circle punch, foam adhesive, markers (for stems & pitcher).

Thanks for looking!

Card-Scrapbook/Scrapbook-Card!

The ladies at the PTI Forum started a scrapbooking forum... awesome! It will definitely get me going on finishing my honeymoon album and get started on one for our 1st year. Just wanted to post something I thought was interesting. At my first SU! demo, the demo-lady mentioned that basically any card could be "exploded" into a scrapbook page and any scrapbook page could be, I guess, "imploded" (?) into a card.

A bunch of my crafty co-workers and I decided to get another co-worker started on her baby album - she had a new baby girl in January- and make her some pages. Sorta like a card, but bigger! So for my idea, I took a card from Melissa Bickford's blog and "exploded" into a scrapbook page. Hope she doesn't mind!!! Loved the color combo... Just thought I'd share this little tid-bit, it was actually my first time doing this.

Fine Print:
Stamps: PTI Out on a Limb, Beautiful blooms; SU! Because of You
Paper: PTI Spring Moss, Sweet Blush; SU! Bashful Blue; Misc. DP
Ink: PTI Spring Moss & Sweet Blush; Pallette Ink Burnt Umber
Accessories: PTI Spring Moss double-stitched ribbon, Making Memories paper flower & brad, pretty in pink SU! marker to color paper flower

Thanks for looking!!