Seeing Stars

Another month has rolled around and it's time for the Twofer Card Challenge #13, and the prompt is "stars."

I've been working through my stash and trying to use papers and images I've been hoarding for much too long, so for this challenge I pulled out a long-neglected Simon Says Stamp star border and used it for both cards.

 I found this red border already inlaid with white stars on a red panel, so I decided to go with a patriotic birthday card, since I have 2 friends who celebrate their birthdays on July 4th.  The circle sentiment was printed years ago when I had software that allowed me to easily make circle sentiments, so I die cut it with SB circle and scalloped circle dies and some coordinating dsp snippets and cardstock. The center star was done with a Punch-a-Bunch and I added a brad to the center. The white panel was die cut with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle.

I'm also entering this card into the Seize the Birthday Challenge #159 - anything goes

For my 2nd card, I pretty much stole  borrowed the idea from Heidi's card right here. I loved the whole concept so I had to make one of my own. I used a Stamp n Doodle digital image called "tiger eyes" and colored the eyeballs with an orange glaze pen, dotting the centers with a white gel pen. I created the Darice embossed background much like Heidi's card, but used a platinum ink pad instead of the gold she used on some brown cardstock. I die cut a few orange stars from the Simon Says Stamp border and placed them on the top and bottom and added a printed sentiment....

Here's what the inside looks like with the rest of that printed sentiment. The little heart was recycled from a store-bought card. Now I have that song playing in my head like an ear worm :)

I'm also entering this card into the Cardz4Guyz challenge #213 - "Wild Animals"

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for all the input on the blogger issues. I've come to realize that my internet provider Comcast must have something to do with the glitch along with Google Goofy Chrome because there are others who cannot open hyperlinks in their email either. I've done extensive reading on the internet about this issue but none of the "fixes" they recommend work, so I will just try to be patient until they come up with a fix. It is maddening though not to be able to click a store link that's having a sale, or a link to read a story. I suppose I just take a lot for granted and when it stops working, it's hard to be patient! It all started with a MS update this past weekend and threw me into grumpling mood shortly thereafter.

Edit: After chatting online with a Comcast rep, I learned that switching to "allow" pop-ups (instead of blocking them) in my settings fixed the issue of not being able to open links in my emails. Hopefully this helps anyone else with the same problem.

Have a good week ahead!

Carol