Fall Birthdays

When I turned the page on my birthday calendar to November I discovered a long list of birthdays and anniversaries. Several of the birthdays were for male friends and relatives, so I decided to make a set of cards that would be appropriate for guys. In the end I made four cards (two identical) and one for my sister-in-law who decorates with, and loves, leaf patterns.

The first two cards differ only with the woodgrain patterned paper. I made two of the first one because I had two pieces of that paper. The card design is a CASE of one Debby Hughes made years ago when the Simon Says “One With Nature” was released. The kraft card is a premade one by Paper Studio, and the tag has long been in my stash. I gold embossed the leaves and used three Karin watercolor markers to color them before die cutting  them and adding them to the tag. The sentiment, stamped in Dark Chocolate ink is from The Greetery.

While I was looking through my patterned papers, I came upon the one used on the next card for my sister-in-law. I just love this design and wish I had more of it. It’s also been in my stash for quite some time, and I have no idea who made it.

I added the leaves for this one on a dark brown tag, luckily found in the “tag drawer” and gold embossed the sentiment from Altenew’s “Happy Sentiments” stamp which might have been a freebie at one time. This tag got two gold pearls as a final embellishment. 

I’m sending the last card to a new-to-me challenge site The Four Seasons and to Happy Little Stampers Birthday challenge. Here’s the inspiration photo for Four Seasons and HLS’s Birthday challenge is always an Anything Goes challenge. 

I’m happy to report that (finally!!!) TypePad is back to operating as it should. What a relief!