birthday adventures

This post may or may not appear on my website - my computer has been disconnecting itself from the internet approximately every five minutes for a week or two now.  I haven't had much luck finding what needs to be fixed and may have to take it in - aack!  With or without a blog post, though, I needed 3 birthday cards for this month and only had one ready.  As usual, I looked for a challenge to get me started and found a fun sketch at the Watercooler:

stamp set - Best of Birthdays (retired); ink - Tangelo Twist; card stock - Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Basic Gray; designer series paper - Confetti (retired)

I see I forgot the three embellishments for the right side, but that might have been a bit too busy.

The card that I did have ready had an envelope that was intended to coordinate, but it was stamped in the wrong color - I'm betting I mailed one to someone else with a similar mismatch.  I made a new envelope, and then I thought I should make a card that did coordinate with the envelope.  The paper on this one is retired, also, but the stamp set is current:

stamp set - Endless Birthday WIshes; ink - Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake; card stock - Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight; designer series paper - Epic Day; punch - scalloped circle; Big Shot with Circle Card thinlits; baker's twine - Calypso Coral (? retired)

In retrospect, it may have looked better if the cake were stamped in Crumb Cake and the sentiment in Calypso Coral, but I was concentrating on making it match the envelope. ;/  I didn't think it was bad enough to be pulled apart and corrected, anyway.  I kind of love this paper and wish I'd used more of it when it was still available, and bought a second package to hoard save for special projects.  :)