Well this card is appropriate for today.  It seems that there was some kind of glitch that took out many servers in the last couple of days and mine was one of them. Without a server you can’t post anything, but now that everything is back to normal again here is a cute birthday card for the kiddie in all of us.

I used several embossing folders to give the card texture and of course, who wouldn’t want some gogglie eyes.

Although it looks complicated, this dahlia card was very simple to create.  I used my die cutting machine and created the petals then simply lifted each petal.  After lifting the petals I added a piece of yellow cardstock to the back for color to give it some pop.

For the Man of the House card I also used my cutting machine to create different tools.  On some of the tools I added silver glitter to make it look like metal and added black cardstock onto the back of the kraft cardstock on the front.

As I promised here are the Fourth of July cards. Oh, and Happy 4th of July to everyone who celebrates our Nations birthday.  This first card is a take on the flip fold I did at the end of June.  I used some patriotic colors and stamped an image of firecrackers and colored the image in using copic markers.  There is glitter on the flames and outer yellow part but I could not get that part to show up in the photo.   I was going to add USA on the bottom but then thought this could be used for a birthday card so I left it blank.

For my second card I die cut the letters and the word out.  I then used fine glitter on the word happy to give it some sparkle.  I popped up the banner using dimensional foam tape and added a few sequins for more sparkle.