Beauty, harmony, grace and good fortune! The crane has long been a symbol of each of these things in a variety of cultures. What better way to wish someone a happy birthday than with a serene crane birthday card! It’s time to play at Festive Friday – Home of the Inspo List!
For this week’s challenge, we are inspired by International Wetland Day, which is celebrated on February 2nd. Remember, at Festive Friday you do not need to actually celebrate or make a card for the occasion featured. Your goal is to simply use three or more items from the inspiration list on your project. I used birds, florals, green and birthday to create my card. I can’t wait to see what YOU create!
Colors of the Day
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A beautiful designer paper is the starting point for this serene crane birthday card. In fact, other than the crane and the sentiment, the paper does the work for today’s card. Can you believe that these gorgeous flowers were snipped from paper? A few die cut stems are all that is needed to zhuzh it up! The crane perches atop the sentiment, while a sprinkling of rhinestones adds a bit of sparkle.
To download the free step-by-step tutorial for today’s Serene Crane Birthday card, which includes all the paper measurements and all of the current products used, please click on the button below. For every card which has been posted on my blog since 2019, there is a free tutorial.
2019 FREE Tutorial PDF Gallery – CLICK HEREFor more inspiration, be sure to visit the rest of the Festive Friday Challenge Design Team.:
Nueve’s Canine Corner
It’s me, Nueve! I gots something new to show you. My Mom bought me a special new necklace. She got it for me after her friend, Michelle, had her dog stoled. Jasper was in his crate in Michelle’s van being a good boy. He was at a motel in Minneapolis and was waiting to go to a dog show. A bad man stoled the van with Jasper in it. It was really cold in Minneapolis, and everyone prayed they would find Jasper before he got too cold and fell asleep forever. Jasper was stoled on Saturday, and they found the van with Jasper in it on Monday night. Jasper was still in his crate, and was very, very cold and hungry. I know he would have liked some of my “Good Boy Treats”. The bad man said he didn’t know Jasper was in the van. I know good boys don’t bite, but that bad man should be bited. (Oh, wait…Sixx is ‘rupting me!…It is too stoled, Sixx! That’s how you make people words mean something already happened. You put a “d” on the end. Stoled. Bited. Grrr…she thinks she knows everything!)
Anyway, Mom got worried about what would happen if I got losted when we go to visit my human brother this year. I would be far away from my real home, and I wouldn’t know all of the strange houses and stuff. So, my dad got on the ‘puter and found some special dog necklaces that have something called GPS. I don’t know what GPS is, but Mom said because it has it, the necklace gives off free quincies, or something like that. I just know if the quincies are free, they must be good. The necklaces came in different colors, but I wanted pink. Sixx made fun of me. She said boy dogs don’t wear pink. But, I like pink. I wear Great Aunt Muffy’s necklace. It’s pink, and I LOVE it ’cause it still smells like her and has cupcakes on it. But, her necklace is starting to get too tight. Mom said I am getting to be a big boy now. That’s because I eat a lot of “Good Boy Treats”!
It has been really, really cold here. I wanted to go outside, but that bad dog, Frost, must be out there somewhere. Mom said we couldn’t out because we might get Frost bited. She says that all the time when it gets really cold. Why don’t Frost’s owners keep him on a leash so he can’t bite us? I even gave Mom my best “Puppy Dog Eyes” and tilted my head a little so I looked really cute, but she still wouldn’t let us go out and play.
So we just decided to take a nap.
I gotta go now and help Mom. We are going to make homemade puppy treats ’cause I’m Good Boy, Nueve!
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Isn’t this a yummy trio of colors? I used black as my neutral. I can’t wait to see what colors you use!
