Several of the cards I made for the Hope You Can Cling To challenges ended up being birthday cards.  I’ve already shared my floral birthday card.  Today I have one that uses the same sketch, and one that’s completely different.

I have to say that I really, really liked last week’s OWH Stars & Stamps blog sketch.  I kept it pretty clean and simple for the Hope You Can Cling To challenge to create a card using pink and an image of some yummy treat.  I think that birthday cake is always a good treat!

The challenge for the next card had me stumped for a few days before I finally figured out what I wanted to do for it.  The challenge was to make a window card.  Mine is sort of a modified version of that.  I used circle dies to cut through the main panel and its mat to create a window to the front of the card base.  I wanted to keep the color scheme pretty neutral so the card could be given to either a man or a woman.  I smeared my ink pad across the embossed surfaces to highlight them.

Supplies for the birthday cake card:
Digital Image: Birthday Cake Cocoa (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Sentiment Stamp: On Your Birthday (Stampin’ Up)
Cardstock: Barely Banana textured, Going Gray, Pink Pirouette, Tea Party designer paper (Stampin’ Up); Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: printer ink; Basic Gray
Other: markers (Copic)

Supplies for the birthday gift card:
Stamps: Party Animals (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Cardstock: Basics White (Papertrey Ink); Groovy Guava, Fall Flowers designer paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Really Rust (SU)
Other: Happy Birthday embossing folder (ProvoCraft); standard circle Nestabilities dies (Spellbinders); markers (Copic)