Happy Birthday Cindy!!!

Today is Cindy's birthday!!  We went out to celebrate last night and had a great time!  I checked out the Hero Arts blog this week and came across Tami Hartley's post about pinwheels.  Now, I know they've been around a bit, but I never made one - until now!!!  Here is the birthday card we gave Cindy last night.

I had sooooo much fun making this card!!!!  After choosing a paisley-ish paper, I stamped the back with an Inkadinkado script stamp.  Then cut the pinwheel out and added two buttons to the center.  I stamped a 'wood' handle because I didn't have an actual one in my craftroom!

For the background, I stamped a Hero Arts star stamp and a PTI sentiment.  The card needed something else....so I layered a few EK Success border punches and bling, bling, bling!

So...obviously, this card would not fit in a normal envelope, and I didn't want to just hand it to her....so I scoped out SplitcoastStampers and came across this tutorial for a Card Purse.   The purse should hold a few cards and envelopes, but not mine, since it was so bulky.

I followed the tutorial...and added this cute little Poppy Stamp birthday girl, paper piecing her outfit and the balloons:

Cute right?  BUT......when I took pictures of the card and the purse together, I wasn't happy. They didn't go well with each other - even though I used the same paper.  As I was out for a walk.....it hit me......she needs to be holding a pinwheel instead of balloons!

So, that night......I made a mini-pinwheel and glue it over the balloons:

So, I was bit happier with the final result of the pinwheel. Yes - I'm anal retentive!!!

Hope you have a great Sunday!!!


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