Maddie's Birthday Card and Box

My niece Maddie is have a birthday party tomorrow (Sunday), so today I crutched out the front door, down the driveway and into my garage to get to the basement where my scrap space is. It felt so good being able to sit at my scrap table with all my stamps, inks, papers, and tools at my fingertips. The creative juices flowed and here is what I created.

Maddie loves purple and penguins, so here is her positively, prefect, purple, penguin, birthday card. 

I went through my stash of card stock and pulled out every piece of purple card stock I could find. All card stock is Stampin' UP. Here are the names of the ones I know: wisteria wonder, concord crush, rich razzleberry, perfect plum, bravo burgundy, and elegant eggplant (there may be a retired color or two).

I made the card base out of the lightest paper, then I scalloped the long edge of the card after it was folded and sponged it with concord crush ink. Next I scalloped each piece of purple 8 1/2" x 11" card stock and cut a 1" strip off each sheet above the scalloped edge. I cut each strip down to 5 1/2" and the adhered them one above the other. Then I attached a strip of pattern paper from SU (retired) to cover the rest of the card base.

I stamped the four penguins (Punch Pals stamp set from Stampin' UP retired) in concord crush on whisper white card stock and then used a blender pen to color each penguin a different shade of purple (concord crush, wisteria wonder, rich razzleberry, and a retired color). The Penguins' bills and feet were colored in using a more mustard Stampin' Write Marker. I then inked the edges with concord crush and attach the strip to SU pattern paper using Stampin dimensionals. 

I used glimmer brads to hold the card top down, because there is a gift card inside. The sentiment is from the Create a Cupcake stamp set from SU and is stamped in concord crush. I also used a sponge dobber to ink the edges in concord crush as well. The sentiment was punched out using the decorative label punch. I wrapped wisteria wonder baker's twine around the label added the same twine to the rich razzlebeery button and attached it with a mini glue dot. I attach the sentiment with Stampin' dimensionals. 

This is the inside of the card. The sentiment is from Create a Cupcake SU stamp set. Nadine is our cat and Lady is our dog. Our pets always 'sign' birthday cards just like Steve and the Boyz.

Here is the front of the envelope I made to go with the card. I used the same DSP from SU as I did on the card (it is a retire paper and I don't know the name). I cut the letters out using my BigShot.

This is the back of the envelope. I used the cupcake builder punch to create the sticker to hold the card closed.

This is the box I make. I use a five by five selection of a window sheet the matched the DSP. I used my BigShot and Beautiful Wings embosslit die for the butterflies and attached them with Stampin' dimensionals and mini glue dots. I covered a chipboard 'M' with DSP and attached it with stampin' dimensionals. The box is made out of pink pirouette textured card stock and inked with concord crush.

The box from another angle. Not a bad days work.