Happy Birthday!

 the paper is actually Storyteller's Club All About Dad, but since it's red, white, and blue it goes well with the cupcake :) I won the cupcake digi from Fresh Brewed Designs (http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/)  and I colored it with American Crafts Basic Red & Candy Shoppe Blue pens and accented it with my Gelly Roll Clear Star pen and added some blue bling from my stash! I also drew stars on the liner with my American Crafts Basic Red pen. The "Happy Birthday to You!" banner is Simple Stories Happy Day 6x6 Paper Pad. The twine is from Heather Lynn when I won something from a blog hop from her.

 The paper is double sided so I decided to not add anything to the back side for the inside spread. The printed sparkles banner is today's freebie from PPbN Designs (http://www.ppbndesigns.com/). The tag on the opposite side comes with the paper kit and the ribbon is Bobbin Ribbon. I'll wait until closer to July 4th to write on the tag. I'm giving it to my sister and, yes, she's a 4th of July baby! She's just 2 years younger than me.

I have decided to use this stamp "I'm a Crafty Girl" as my card signature. I got too much ink on the stamp so I decided to write the year, 2013, on the line. It's also from Fresh Brewed Designs that I won from a blog hop and I have the entire Crafty Girl set that I will use eventually! This is the first card I have used baker's twine on so it's going to take time for me to get used to it! I had to punch a hole in the fold of the card to wrap it around. That's why you see it on the inside as well! I stuck with the red, white, and blue theme on the twine as well! This is my first project without any stickers! I love using them sometimes too much! I want to try to get into stamping more and that's going to take practice! Stamping is messy, but that's part of crafting! TFL and have a great Father's Day weekend! :)