Birthday Card WINNERS!

Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes via snail mail, via email and through ecards!! Every single wish was much appreciated. 

I LOVED all of the stamped cards sent in response to THIS challenge.  It was REALLY hard to choose only 3 favorites.. MANY MANY cards really caught my eye.

Here are my top 3 favorites and I will be posting other REALLY GREAT cards tomorrow and the next day as well!

Tied for 1st place:

Pop up cards by Liz Miller (left) and Lynne Marini (right):

For a great tutorial for the pop up card above, visit DAWN'S BLOG HERE.

2nd Place.. awesome shrink plastic pot card by Sharon Howard:

UPDATE:  HOW-TO INFO on the pot from the artist!   I freehanded half the pot on regular paper folded in half, cut it out,  then traced the whole thing onto white shrink plastic (1/2 sheet for height) and cut it out.   I shrunk the plastic with the heat tool, and then concentrated the heat on the bottom area for an extra couple of seconds, stamped it with "A Little Bit of Happiness" (hostess set), then moved up to mid-way trying not to re-heat the lower section (if you heat too much, it will re melt what you've stamped - very handy when you mess up, not so good when you like what you've done) and stamped that, then did the same at the top.  I stamped it dry, I've heard that you can use Versamark as a release, but I didn't do that and don't think I'd even bother.  I wasn't sure if it would mess up the painting process.  It only needs about a minute to cool down, so I squeezed crystal e ffects onto scrap paper and added a few drops of Close to Cocoa to one side, Garden Green to another, and Pumpkin Pie to the third side and mixed (you could also do three separate puddles of crystal effects, I did the lazy way).  Then I used a paint brush and added color in each area, letting it blend and puddle into the impressions (I used the same paint brush for the same lazy reason).  It dries pretty quickly.  I added dimensionals and cuts of Kraft paper smooshed with Really Rust and Old Olive (used the guillotine style paper cutter and barely moved it over each time, allows it to curl randomly), taped those together and added those to the back with a dimensional. 

3rd Place: Beautiful Kind Thought card and coordinating envelope by Karen Felix:

So they will each get a stampin' prize, and I'll be posting "runner ups" tomorrow.. stay tuned and THANK YOU AGAIN!

Comments

[NEENA JOHNSON]

The 2nd place winners pot looks like clay with a fired glaze can you ask her how she did it. ervybodys card lokks like 1st place that must of been hard to choose.

[Sophie]

Oh my gosh...how hard was that to choose???...so beautiful...love the pop-ups and wow! on the glazed pot!!

[Aimee]

You got great cards. Jeez...did you get over 100??? That's so awesome! :)