Thank you to everyone for all the kind comments and emails on my new role as an A Muse instructor - I'm thrilled for this opportunity!
My friend Breanna's little girl (Kaia) turned one today - Happy Birthday, Kaia! And this is the card I made for her. My friend Tracy has a sketch challenge every week and I wanted to play this time so I used her sketch as my inspiration for the card. I used the Polka-dot lower case large alphabet from A Muse for the "K" and I first stamped it in yellow pigment ink, then added Simple Stick, heated it up and once it was hot and sticky, added yellow glitter. The "is for Kaia!" was printed out on the computer. And see that little party hat charm? I used shrink plastic to make it and Jennie's got a great tutorial on how to use it here.
Hope you all are having a great Monday!
All images, notecards, ribbon, Simple Stick - A Muse
Ink - Color Box, computer generated sentiment; Staz-on
Accessories - Glitter: Art Institute; Scallop punch - SU!; Shrink Wrap - ?; PrismaColor pencil
(I'm STILL trying to figure out my camera and for whatever reason, it makes all my photos a lot darker so I have to edit them to lighten them up so this one looks a bit funky - sorry!)
This is just adorable Katie!! I love the colors, the sparkly K and of course, I love that shrink plastic!! :)
Posted by: Jennie M | September 15, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Super cute Katie!! I'm just tickled that you played along this week. I always love your work. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Posted by: Tracy | September 15, 2008 at 03:20 PM
This is terrific--yet another use for shrinky dinks!! Tracy
Posted by: Barn494 | September 16, 2008 at 04:38 AM
Cute card!!! Love the color combo and the glitter letter! Great charm too I so need to get more shrinky dink plastic. ;)
Posted by: Jen | September 16, 2008 at 02:07 PM
Such a lovely card...she will adore it! Great job on Tracy's sketch challenge...TFS!
Posted by: Tinla | September 19, 2008 at 08:00 PM
so i'm finally getting caught up on blogs and saw this post! it's true, i'm obsessed with this card!! i can't wait to stick it into the scrapbook! it really is the CUTEST card! thank you so much katie for taking the time to make kaia a perfect first birthday card! you are so sweet
Posted by: breanna | September 22, 2008 at 09:20 PM