Embossed birthday cards

 Two friends recently had birthdays and so this gave me the opportunity to use my new "Happy Birthday" stamp from "Stamp-it" (2420D 2004) as well as my new clear mini stamps 99011 "Special bird."

I stamped Happy Birthday twice on white card stock using some Royal Blue versa colour ink, then quickly sprinkled some clear embossing powder on top. I also stamped the Bird and a little cat from a Kaisercraft stamp in the same blue ink and embossed these also. Since I don't have a heat gun, I carefully held the paper above the toaster until the image was suitable embossed. This seemed to work very well (and is much cheaper than buying a heat gun!)

I mounted the stamped images and text on some shiny blue card stock. I also mounted some lovely Japanese paper that I purchased from Bellbird Paperarts in Blackburn on the same shiny blue card stock.

Finally, I adhered the pieces to some wheat card.