Let Her Eat Cake

So it was mom's birthday and I needed to make a card.  I have been looking at pictures of Versailles and putting away my new Catherine Moore stamps bought before the vacation and well what could have been more natural than to do a paper doll card.

I used a Spellbinders die to create the frame and mirror paper accent.  A little Krylon gilding pen added just the right decadent touch.  Stickles and Liquid Pearls gave Marie her bling.  The dress is attached just at the shoulders so she's still a true paper doll.  Mom loved her and the cake she later ate.

Pop up Birthday Card

Every year I try to make very personally relevant birthday cards for my nieces.  Whatever they are interested in at the moment becomes the theme.  I also challenge myself to make them different and as "cool" as an old lady like me can achieve.  The current area of interest is Selena Gomez.  Job 1: find a good image.  Luckily with the internet being what it is, this is not a difficult task.  Job 2: make the card.  This part was really hard.  I took about 4 hours putting this one together.  I added some stuff after the basic card took shape.  This is also the second go at it.  I hope she likes it.

And then when it's opened.

Here are a couple more views.

If you want to make pop-up cards of your own a really good set of books is The Pocket Paper Engineer, Volumes 1 and 2.  You can get them at Amazon and at Indigo and there is more information at their site, Popular Kinetics Press.  I picked up both books at the Smithsonian last summer.