Birthday cards for Taylored Expressions (and Andrew)

Happy Sunday all!  Popping in to share a couple birthday cards I created for Taylored Expessions birthday Tic Tac Toe challenge.

As many of you know my husband Andrew is a teacher.  This year he asked if I would be willing to make birthday cards that he can give to his students.  It's a tall order.  He has six rather than the normal five classes this year, and that means at least 150 students.....even if some of them have their birthdays over the summer, that's still a lot of cards.  Andrew is pretty darn supportive of my crafty habit and doesn't often make special crafting requests, so I'm going to see if I can keep up with all the birthdays....as a result you're likely to see a lot of birthday cards here this year.

Anyway, this was the perfect opportunity to make a couple cards for the stash since the middle of the Tic Tac Toe board is 'make a birthday card'. 

This first one was super simple and easy.  I used the Fruity Friends set.  Colored the watermelon with a Spectrum Noir and a Faber Castell marker, added some ribbon and gems, and done.  I could definitely make a set of these too since there are all sorts of different fruits I could substitute out for the watermelon.  This was for the rhinestones/birthday card/ribbon row of the tic tac toe board.

The next card was a little harder - I fussed with it a while.  This one is for the buttons/birthday card/patterned paper row of the board.

I used an old embossing folder I have and I confess I'm not really sure what folder it is, but it's from Sizzix.  The paper was made using TE's notepaper stamp.  The alphas are TE's skinny alpha and number dies and the owl is from the July 2013 Stamp of the Month.  I wanted to add a little definition to him, so I added some simple outlining/shading with a precision point pen and used some Liquid Glass on his glasses.

Some twine and buttons finished that one off.  We've had a fun weekend, got some things done around the house and some relaxing too.  I'm taking the girls for the three and six year old photos this afternoon,  hopefully they will cooperate....

Have a great end to your weekend!

Supplies Used
Card 1
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy
Stamps:  TE - Fruity Friends; WMS - Half Pint Heroes
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Recollections - Ribbon; MME - All is Bright Gems; Spectrum Noir Markers - CR11; Faber Castell - Pitt markers, Green
Card 2
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy and Outdoor Denim; Bazzill Card Shoppe - Candy Hearts cardstock
Stamps:  TE - Notepaper and July 2013 Stamp of the Month
Ink:  CTMH - Dutch Blue; HA - Wet Cemeent
Other:  AC - Precision Point Pen 01; Twinery - Caribbean; Pebbles - Aqua Self Adhesive Backed Buttons; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape, Liquid Glass; Tombow - Mono Adhesive