Sweet Birthday Celebration

Good evening crafty friends...I made this card for my sweet sister's birthday:)  Her favorite is Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing....She lives out in AZ and I can't be there for her Birthday but I'm sending this in hopes she's still have a Sweet Celebration:)

Over at Jitterbuggin they have an All Browns Challenge....so I'm entering this card over there and at Fantabulous Cricut they are having a "Sweet" Challenge so I'll enter it there too:) 

I'm a bit disappointed that the camera made the sparkly spray look like blotches tho in person it is super sparkly!!!!  I started with Sahara Sand CS and added Early Espresso and Soft Suede.  The cake is from Celebrations and has been embosed with a swirly embossing folder.  I added the Basic Pearl Jewels from SU to accent the cake and the banner.  The ribbon is Kraft(retired) SU.  The Sahara Sand background behind the cake was embossed using Vintage Wallpaper SU Embossing folder. 

 I added the Smooch Spritz to that layer as well. 

Each layer was given a border using the Scalloped Border Punch(SU)

Closeups:

sorry they are blotchy looking...those are really very sparkly!

The Cake:

and the banner:

sentiment from Sweet Scoops SU stamp set.

Birdie Challenge Card

Hello Blogland:)  I had a break in my fever HOORAY!  and felt ok as long as I sit still sooooo, yep you guessed it, I made a card!  My friend Kate from Small Bits of Paper told me about this awesome challenge over at Jitterbuggin'  so here is my take on the challenge to fit their sketch, use a bird cut and use pink:)  And the Stampin' Royalty's Challenge SR55 --anything with wings:)  I'm entering this one over there too:)

I started with a base of Crumb Cake Cardstock and embossed it with a flowery embossing folder from my stash and inked the raised areas with Pretty in Pink Ink...I added circles cut from Spring Vintage DSP then I cut the bird layers using Pirouette Pink and Pretty in Pink Cardstocks and embossed the Pirouette Pink pieces in a swirly embossing and then dots on the Pretty in Pink Piece.  I stamped the sentiment from the Because I Care set in Soft Suede Ink on Pretty in Pink CS then punched it using the Modern Label Punch.  I added Pearls to the ends of that as well as to the center of the crochet flower. All papers are Stampin' UP!

Thought ya'll may like to see closeups of the embellies:)

bird from Create a Critter

Thanks for stopping by @ studio j:)