Very special birthday cards

Good day everyone:

Today, I'm going to share 3 very special birthday cards with you.  My wonderful friend, Nina, has been asking me to create birthday cards for her family for the past several years now and I have enjoyed it so much every year.  She started off by asking me to make her oldest son a card and then when she had her twins, I started creating theirs.  Nina gives the children a themed birthday party each year and she lets me know ahead of time what the theme is going to be and I create a card surrounding that theme.  This year, she has asked me to create a card for her husband as well, so I created an extra one.  

Her daughter, Ani, is having a beach themed party in pink and purple.  I made this card into a shaker card and had so much fun creating this card - I haven't created many beach themed cards and have to make more for sure.

Her son, Hamilton, is having a party at Dave and Buster's, which is an arcade place here in Columbia, and the birthday theme is tennis against baseball (fun theme, I thought).  Now, I had to get a little creative with this one because I didn't have an arcade theme stamp so Patrick helped me find some images online and did some fancy Photoshop editing to change the color and add the year.  I stamped the happy birthday on there and fussy cut it out (should have used my scan n cut, but didn't think of it until later).  I found some tennis ball and baseball equipment clip art to create the background.  The game viewer is covered with glossy accents to give it that window effect.  This was such a fun one to come up with.

 Nina also wanted me to create a card for her husband with the world on the front.  Well, I thought I had this wonderful world stamp, but come to find out I had given it away, but again, the world wide web helped me out 😀 here.  I took an image and used several green, blue, yellow and gold gansi tambi watercolors to give it some depth.  I really like this one.

These were just so much fun and am so excited for next year to create more fun and creative cards.  She gave me possibilities for her oldest son, so I'll be sharing that when finished.

Thanks Nina for asking me to do these for you, I truly enjoy doing these for you and your wonderful family.

Janet