Laura Vegas

This week, on the Bella Blvd blog, we've been having a bit of a birthday celebration! Bella Blvd is turning FOUR years old this week, and we wanted to share lots and lots of projects using the new Birthday Boy and Birthday Girl collections. I figured it was a good time to share a few of my birthday cards that I created for CHA. 

I think this card was my favorite out of the seven cards I created for CHA. I really, really love the colors in the Birthday Boy collection.

I wanted to have a bit of a confetti look to my card, so I used a small circle punch along with a regular hole punch, and punched out a ton of circles from the polka dot patterned paper. Punching out the polka dots is a great way to get solid colors that will perfectly match your other pieces from the collection.

There is a sticker on just about every Just Write Journaling sticker sheet, that goes with each collection, that is the perfect width for the front of a card. I used a scalloped edged border punch along some patterned paper, to frame the sticker. Such an easy card. 

I knew this adorable chipboard froggie would have to land on the front of a card. I thought the quote sticker would be perfect, along with the frog, so it looks like he's sending the birthday wishes.

I distressed the edges of the quote sticker, and adhered it to a scrap of white cardstock, trimming around the edges. This allowed me to adhere it to the card using pop dots. Then I cut one of the little phrase stickers, into smaller pieces, and used it for my sentiment.

One of my two cards using the Birthday Girl collection. Except my second card isn't really a birthday card, so I'll share that another day. This one is pretty simple.

I used the alpha stickers from the Alpha+Bits sticker sheet, to spell out "birthday". I machine stitched along the pink strip of patterned paper several times, before adhering my stickers. I added the little banner "wishes" stickers below the pink patterned paper.

I pop dotted the chipboard cupcake to the bottom of the card, added a few strips of designer tape, and finished it off with a little sticker.

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Make sure and visit the Bella Blvd blog to see all of the fun projects we've been sharing all week, using these two new birthday collections. We had one day focusing on birthday cards, one day focusing on birthday layouts, one day focusing on everyday layouts using the birthday collections, and today is all about birthday mini albums! And be sure to leave a comment on both of the TWO posts we have today, since we are giving away a total of FOUR birthday collection kits!