For the second card, I used Life's A Beach again to cut a palm tree and I used Nifty Fifties to cut the car. [cut 2 of the care base so you can add one to finish the inside flap] For the card base, I recycled a promotion invitation I received from the Marriott. I used 4 different Tim Holtz embossing folders on the palm tree leaves, the coconuts, the water, and the hub caps on the car. I originally stamped the happy birthday sentiment in yellows to represent the sun... didn't quite turn out as I originally wanted on the sample so I did some adjustments. Wish I had stamped all the white space with the sentiment & then attached the palm tree, but I like the overlaping effect of the words nonetheless.
The last card isn't birthday, but father's day... I wanted to try out a technique so I card-lifted the design from a Wild Strawberry's blog: http://awildstrawberry.blogspot.com/2010/06/tim-holtz-embossing-folders-more-cricut.html. Her version is more colorful... thinking I'm gonna need some more practice working with inks & chalks on embossed cardstock, lol. The card base uses one of Tim Holtz's embossing folders, the sentiment is cut from the Wild Card cartridge, & the stamp on the inside is Tim Holtz as well {what can I say, I asked for a lot of Tim Holtz products for Christmas... figured I better start using them}
