Happy Birthday!

Each year when we’re lucky enough to travel to celebrate Christmas with Sarah and her family, we’re also able to celebrate with Caleb and Hannah when they celebrate their joint birthdays. And today was the day! It started early with (requested) scavenger hunts. Caleb asked for a challenging hunt, and his coded clues were definitely that. Hannah had photographic clues, and was very quick to identify the details in the photo to lead her to the next clue.

After lunch their good friend, Evie, and her parents arrived for cake and ice cream. It was a Harry Potter cake (another request). The 10 candles on the left are for Caleb, and the five on the right for Hannah.

Caleb is a huge fan of Super Heroes (and Harry Potter). The older Papertrey Ink set “Zappy Birthday” seemed like a good fit for his birthday card.

The coordinating paper pad, “Comic Strip” was the perfect background to which I added a variety of die cuts and stamped sentiments. Some of the die cuts were layered for dimensional, some adhered with dimensional tape, and I added a bit of  white glitter paper for the lightening bolt.

 The inside sentiment came from another older Papertrey Ink set. (Can’t remember the name of the set; it’s now retired.)

“Birthday Buds” by My Favorite Things has always been one of my favorite sets, so I pulled it out again to make a mini slimline card for Hannah.

I die cut the mini Polaroid frames by Mama Elephant, and added three of the cute animals colored with Copic markers.  The sentiments on each frame are from Papertrey Ink’s “Birthday Balloons” and the patterned paper is also from Papertrey Ink. Six tiny stars were the last addition. 

The inside of her card features the hedgehog from the set with the very appropriate five candles with a greeting from The Greetery’s “Sentiment Suite: Birthday.”

It’s been pretty dreary here, but luckily no significant snow as yet. Our trip home will be determined as much by the weather reports as anything else so I’m hoping there’s nothing BIG on the way!