Baseball Birthday Card!

It's our nephew's 13th birthday! So what kind of card do you make for a 13-year-old boy who is really great at baseball? This kind I suppose! :)

I knew for the past week I wanted to make a card like this, specifically a square shaped with a big baseball. I also am taking the Pop Off the Page 2 class with Jen Jockisch at Studio Calico, who had a great layout with all these sewn on pieces of fabric. I also was trying to decide if I should throw away all these muslin fabric bags I have, that some of the Studio Calico products come in... So these 3 separate pieces of information in my head culminated to form this simple birthday card!

I cut a piece of muslin fabric to 5x5, then lined up a circle template at the edges to pencil and hand-cut a greater circumference circle at the edges than using a corner punch. I hand sewed around the edges to keep it attached to the card better, then drew in the wavy lines and sewed with white floss. Finally I added my red thread, using a thicker thread, and stamped the sentiment onto the fabric with Black Staz-On ink, but went over it a little further with a Sharpie!

Valentine

My husband is REALLY into speakers and his sound system lately... and I am really into stitching & sewing into my scrapbooks and cards lately... so this is the resulting Valentines' Day card he got on Friday night when we celebrated early by going to dinner at Tavern58 on Gibbs St. (side note: do not leave there without getting their blue cheese au gratin potatoes!)

Basically I knew I wanted to make a speaker, so after he went to bed one night, I took the cover off one of his stand up speakers and took a look - luckily I watched him enough I guess to get the cover back on ok haha. He is also crazy and has to run every single cord into the basement, but I was not as neat on the back of my card.

HOW-TO:

• Cut rectangle from Creative Memories shimmer paper, punched circles from black paper and just started piercing holes and stitching!
• For the hearts I stamped a heart on the back of the paper and pierced holes around it, then cut out the heart with my exacto knife
• The letter stickers are Mini ABC stickers from Pebbles