December 22nd is my Mother's Birthday. I have always tried to make it NOT look like Christmas. When she was a child her Birthday always got celebrated with Christmas. When I was a child I felt bad about that and so as an adult I always wrap her presents in Birthday paper and give a Birthday card!
I used CTMH printed cardstock from the Level 1 Scrapbooking Kit called Enchanted. I love purple (Smokey Plum) and green (Garden Green) together. I added lots of spearkles and pearls. Not sure you can really see them in the photo.
This card requires a lot of stamp sets. Luckly I have many, many sets to choose from. I have made several of these funky folded cards and I always use Make a Wish (B1312) and another with no name (D1400) that I got in a kit last summer on the clearance sale. The flower border is B1349 also from a Workshop On The Go Kit Splendor. I also used Paisley Praise D1414, Save the Date and Month by Month C1425. I used two ink colors, Garden Green and Smokey Plum. I added Bitty Sparkles, colored sparkles from Blue & green and Red, Pink and Purple Assorments.
If you want to use many of your stamps try this Funky Folded Card! It was a blast to create!!
Here is a sneek peek at the charms I will be entering in the CU charm swap. They were almost impossible to photograph. My camera does not have the ability to photograph up close. These charms are about 1 inch or the size of a quater. They will go onto a charm bracelet so the size was limited. We have to package our charms as well so this is the card I created for my charms.
These two pictures are a close up of the card and then the charms. The third charm is a reject at this point. I could sign up for another seat in the swap and use this set as my filler. I have ordered more blanks. I will just have to see how much time I have. I have been surpised at how long this has taken so I just don't know! Love how they turned out. If you have questions about how I made anything you see feel free to leave a comment. I read them everyday. Since I haven't posted in a while I haven't gotten any comments.
I decided to make all of my own tags this Christmas. In addition I decorated these gift bags and made the gift inside. I have already posted the gifts inside but I wanted to show you the gift bags and tags!
I used plain white lunch bags and stamped in New England Ivy and Tulip. The Merry Christmas stamp is something I picked up several years ago on a clearance table at a local craft store. Same for the metal ribbon slides. I forgot I even had them until yesterday when I cleaned up my disaster craft room. They look great! The paper and black ribbon are from Close To My Heart. I cut a 3 inch circle and a 3 1/4 inch scallop on my new circut. Love that machine! I stampded To: and From: on the back of the tag. Looks cute without the writing on the front. The photo below is the first attempt and I decided I liked them better before I wrote on them.
This is a pattern I PURCHASED last summer from Becky Roberts. Her blog is called inkingidaho. She is a SU demonstrator. I think was $5.00. It wasn't very hard except getting the nerve up to try it! I think it is really cute!
I was looking for card ideas today and I remembered how much I liked a Heart 2 Heart color challenge from last summer. I decided that Vineberry and Creme Brulee would be my colors for today. I hadn't used the Creative Bascis Emporium Papers and pulled them out for this card. 
The card is kind of like the gift card holder I learned how to make from Teresa Black. but instead of a gift card I attached a strip of card stock and put a big flower on it. I used the stamp set Something Splendid to make the flower. It was the August SOM.
Here it is all the way open. I attached the strip of cardstock under the paper so it can't be seen from the back. I really like how it turned out. I am going to give it to a friend tonight at dinner. It is her Birthday! I hope she likes it.