Happy Birthday Helen!

Hi Friends,

Well, we all survived Thanksgiving and we are still eating leftovers.  Mac does all the cooking at our house and tonight we are having Turkey Soup.  

I made this card for my friend Helen who had a birthday earlier this month.  I gave her the card personally so I know it's safe to show it here.    I used the Flower Pot Pop Up die from Karen Burniston.  I mixed some balloons with greenery from the Flowers and Bee die set to make the perfect balloon bouquet,  Enjoy!!

You can see all the dies I used linked below - just click on the item for more information .

I kept the front simple - because the fun is on the inside.

See you soon,
S@ndy

Happy Birthday America

 Hope all of you are having a fabulous 4th of July holiday.  I made this card to celebrate the season.  I am a very patriotic American - always enjoying a way to use red, white & blue.

As you know, I like to find different ways to use my dies and came up with this fun way to make the stripes on the flag using Karen Burniston's new Nature Edges die.  I really like that it is stitched on each side of the cutting blade so that no matter which piece you use it is stitched.  Happy Birthday is from Karen's Word Set 2 and all the stars on this card are from the Charm Accordion.

For the inside, I used the Flower Pot Pop-up die set.  Instead of flowers, I added more stars, all double sided with a thin wire in between, and the cute flourish from the Cupcake Pop-up.  USA was stamped on labels from the
Katherine Label Pop-up.

All total, 6 die sets were used here and it is amazing how they all work together to give a

perfect result.

Enjoy your holiday,

S@ndy