Wish Big Birthday

 

Hello there!  The Pals Paper Arts have a fabulous color challenge for you this week.  Take a look at the colors, grab your provisions then head on over to the Pals to link up your creations!

 

 

 

I needed to make a birthday card for Jacob, a 14 year old boy, and I have to say, my first thought was "What the heck am I going to use?"  I think man cards are hard, but a man card for a teenage boy has got to be the hardest thing ever to make.  Luckily the colors of this weeks challenge fit my needs perfectly.

I figured that the word bubbles framelits would work, but they were all smaller than I wanted, so I did a little figuring out how to make the framelit bigger.  I apologize that I did not take pictures during, but here is how you do it.

• Figure out the size of the inside of your framelit.  This took a bit of cutting and measuring, your paper needs to fit somewhat snugly inside the framelit.
• Tuck the paper through the middle, so that the bottom edge only will cut, figure out how much height you would like.
• Run it through the big shot
• Repeat the second step, but doing only the top, figure out how much height you would like, making sure your paper only is cut up top.

I knew that I wanted to use the make a wish stamp from the Perfect Pennants stamp set, so I knew how tall I wanted to make my new word bubble.  Whisper white craft ink makes a pop on the Bermuda bay.

 

To ribbon or not, I decided that even though this was a man card, you could still use ribbon.  What do you think?  Is this ribbon manly enough?  I think it ties all of the colors together nicely.

 

I do love the fresh prints designer series paper pack, the colors and designs all work very well together for a seamless look.

 

 

 

So what do you think?  I think the card would work for anyone.  I love to read your comments, so please let me know what you think.  You can also email me if you have any questions on how I resized the framelit.

Happy Birthday to Jacob, Max's little brother, he is really super sweet.  My sister is also in labor as I type this post (Wednesday), so maybe my new nephew and Jacob will share their day.  I am really looking forward to meeting little Evan!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you were inspired, enjoy!

Stamps:  Perfect Pennants
Paper:  Fresh Prints DSP stack, crumb cake, whisper white and Bermuda bay card stock
Ink:  Whisper white craft ink
Tools:  Big shot, word bubbles framelits, ribbon, retired stars die