Friday, November 23, 2012

Birthday Card + GIVEAWAY!!

Hi everyone and happy Friday to you all! I've had a truly amazing time here on the SEI lifestyle blog this week, sharing projects and making new friends. Today I have one final project to share with you all. This time, it's a fun birthday card using another of my favorite SEI collections, Field Notes.


Recently, a sweet bloggy friend of mine celebrated a birthday, which of course required a special handmade birthday card. Since my friend lives all the way across the states from me, I wanted the card to be both beautiful AND flat enough for mailing in a regular envelope. Now usually it's not so easy for me to keep my beloved bumpy frills and accents down to a minimum, but with Field Notes' gorgeous patterned papers and amazingly detailed butterflies, creating a "mailable" card was an absolute pleasure.


Started the card with two easy layers of Document and Research patterned papers. I quickly cut a frame from the Vignettes paper and a trio of butterflies for my accent pieces. Wrapped baker's twine from Berry Melody Sundries around the card, and trimmed the bottom of the frame with pleated paper doily. Added a stamped sentiment banner and dusted the flowers and butterflies with a light coating of glitter. Simple and beautiful!


Thanks to everyone for stopping by, and a super huge thanks to the SEI team for letting me hang with them this week, too! Best birthday present evah!

Audrey


The giveaway ends Sunday at 11:59 pm MST. Leave a comment on each post from this week to increase your chances of winning! Make sure to thank Audrey for guest posting. We loved ALL of her projects, how about you? We will announce the winner Monday.

Supplies:
SEI Field Notes Document 12x12 Paper
SEI Field Notes Research 12x12 Paper
SEI Field Notes Vignettes 12x12 Paper
SEI Field Notes Specimen 12x12 Paper
SEI Berry Melody Sundries
Stamp: Papertrey Ink
Ink: Stampin'Up
Stickles Glitter: Ranger
Doily: Wilton

29 comments:

  1. What a great birthday. Love the colors and especially the butterflies

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  2. Gorgeous card love the colors!

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  3. gorgeous card and bonus for it being postal friendly!

    Love Audrey's work...truly inspirational!

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  4. Beautiful card and papers...feeling inspired now!

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  5. Oh my ... love this card. Thank you for sharing.
    kosec@sbcglobal.net

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  6. OMG! Your card is beautiful! Would love to win some SEI paper!

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  7. beautiful cards. tfs.
    littlen44 at gmail dot com

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  8. Just finished album with this collection.... thanks for ideas for leftover paper/embellishments!

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  9. Very lovely cards.

    Carla from Utah

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  10. LOVE your card, Audrey! the mailable-ness of it is wonderful (I often struggle with that) and Field Notes is such a pretty, delicate line for that perfect feminine touch!

    just placed my SEI order and would LOVE to add some Berry Melody goodies to my stash! fingers crossed! :)

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  11. Your card is beautiful and you balanced it very well with the butterflies.

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  12. This is BEAUTIFUL! I love making cards!
    xo

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  13. Very pretty. And thank you for the inspiration as i also struggle with keeping my cards flat enough to mail. This the appearance of depth.

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  14. your products are so great and that was so cute.

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  15. Thanks for sharing your talent, love this project!

    Carol B
    ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com

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  16. love the butterflies! wonderful card.

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  17. Such a beautiful card. The colors are perfect and those butterflies are gorgeous.

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  18. Super cute card! I love the butterflies :)

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  19. Lovely card with wonderful colors!

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  20. Very pretty!
    Llohmeyer@graniteschools.org

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  21. These shared birthday cards are absolutely unique and awesome and it is very effective way to show your interest in birthday event and to show your art expertise.

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  22. loved the butterfly cards and here's wishing you a t'riffic b'day! thanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp too!

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