Happy Birthday Paiger!

I'm here! I'm actually getting quite a few things done (in between working my patootie off at my day job - or should I say my day/night job, since I work almost as much at night as I do during the day! but that's another story...lol). I have several cards I need to post, somehow I just seem to forget to post them. UGH.  But since I'm here...I'll post one now.  This one was for my niece's birthday in October.  I used a very cute Sassy Cheryl image (i just adore her images!! and you can get them digital or rubber, which makes me like them even more!)

  I found THIS tutorial using the Air Dry Clay and decided to try it out.  I colored the clay with the MFT limeade dye ink refill and let it dry overnight, then used a die to cut out the numbers, and voilà....

 Of course, I just couldn't send her a simple card, oh no! I had to get creative to package up the gift card...so I decided what about a cupcake! yep, sounded like a good idea to me.  Sooooo, I began to make a cupcake.  I found this particular one over at SVGCuts (swoon, I love them!!), it's from the Happy Birthday to You kit.  I have to say this was one of the hardest thing I have made...ever.  It's not that the file was hard, in fact it's not hard it's just time consuming.  BUT the most important thing of this is the GLUE!!! I tried 2 times and gave up, walked away only to tell myself I will not let this beat me, I can do it, lol.  On my 3rd try I switched glues, and yay!! it worked. When someone tells you the glue really does matter, believe them!!!

It's sized perfectly to hold a gift card! Another view of the cupcake (i fell in love with it once I finally figured out how to do it, lol)

and now the complete package:

That's it for now....hopefully I'll find some time to jump back on here and post pics of some other cards.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!