My daughter and I made our yearly trek to the White Stallion Ranch to do some horseback riding. There are about 18 of us who meet there each December from all over the US and world (England, Germany, Channel Islands, Minnesota, California, New Jersey, D.C. Tennessee - we adopted a visiting Australian this year as well). Every year we celebrate the birthday of a lovely lady named TJ. This year we knew we would be celebrating number 75 with her. Such a birthday called for a special card. Months ago I began dreaming the idea up in my head for an explosion box card AND FINALLY just before Thanksgiving I had time to sit and play.
With the help of my Silhouette Cameo I was able to design a cake (my own design) and a barn style cover for the box (again my own design). The barn door is a cut file designed by Cali Arroyo, and the cactus and wheel are a cut file design by Jamie Cripps. The sweet horse on top of the cake and peeking out the window is a digital stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps.
With the help of my Silhouette Cameo I was able to design a cake (my own design) and a barn style cover for the box (again my own design). The barn door is a cut file designed by Cali Arroyo, and the cactus and wheel are a cut file design by Jamie Cripps. The sweet horse on top of the cake and peeking out the window is a digital stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps.
After designing this cake and frosting on my Silhouette Cameo.... I decorated it with a personalized message for TJ!! Every cowgirl needs some 'bling' and TJ's is on her cake - since the whole theme was barn oriented I placed the cake on some hay!
I couldn't carry the card around the ranch and get signatures on the sly (given its size) so I created individual cards that I could slide out of the fences and carry around with a pen in a zip lock bag. This allowed me to get lots of good wishes for her on both sides of the inserts.
Below is TJ getting ready to open her explosion box card - she was so excited by all the people who left her messages and Birthday wishes and she is ALWAYS so complimentary about the cards I make her....this one was a huge surprise to her.
It was great fun making a card like this for such a special lady.....BTW she is wearing antlers because I couldn't find a tiara at the grocery store in Marana and holiday antlers were as close as I could come. She is a great sport.
Going to post this on the Silhouette challenge this month for 3-D -- I love making 3-D cards and using my Silhouette has made them even more fun. I am posting this over at the Silhouette Challenge for 3-d and anything but a card for December - think about joining in on the fun.
Supplies: Silhouette Cameo, Rhinestones, Embellishments, Memory Box fence, Clear Dollar Digital Stamp, Copic markers
