A Quick & Easy Birthday Card

Hello ladies, hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  Today is my oldest sister's birthday, so I thought I would show you the card I made her. Since she reads my blog, I had to wait til she received her card to show it to you!

I began by making the card out of this pretty pink cardstock with a tulip design.  I had these adorable cupcake dimensional stickers, so I thought they would be perfect for her card.  But first, I needed another piece of pretty paper to mount them on.  I searched thru my big stock of decorative papers (I have quiet a bit!) and found nothing that would even remotely go with the pink tulip paper!  Nothing!  What to do? I had a bit of a brainstorm when I noticed that the cardboard insert in the package of cupcake stickers was pastel polka dots!  I thought it was a perfect match, so I cut it to the size I wanted, then used decorative scissors to trim the edges.  I then used "Zots" to adhere the cardboard.  I love them, they really stick!

Since you can never have too much glitter, I added some of my Aleen's dimensional glaze to the top of the cupcakes, then around the edges of the card.  I dusted my Martha Stewart glitter over the glaze, and really loved the look, thought it's a bit hard to see the glitter in the photos.  I then added a pretty sheer ribbon that I tied in a bow around the card.  The card still needed something more, so I broke out my stash of buttons.

My sister loves buttons, and so do I!  Must be part of our DNA!  I used my Zots to adhere them.  As a final fun touch, I used my mini cupcake rubber stamp to jazz up the envelope.  There you have it!  A birthday card that's easy as pie cupcakes!