My daughter's birthday is coming up this month. I've been asking for several weeks if she'd like to have a party with some friends this year, go up to our camper for the weekend, or just lay low this year. She kept shrugging her shoulders and saying, "I don't know" incoherently as only a teenager can do. Then Wednesday she said why aren't we doing anything for a party for her birthday this year? As all parents of teenagers know, it doesn't pay to remind her you've asked several times what she wanted to do without a definite answer. So now we've got to kick it into high gear. I found out she wanted a beach theme, so I pulled several of my Cricut cartridges for her to look at to find out what kind of look she wanted. She made it perfectly (can you say crystal) clear it couldn't look baby-ish. I finally came to my Everyday Paper Doll cartridge and hit pay dirt. I drew up a design that night. Thursday I took a couple of hours to cut everything and put it together. This morning they got mailed with 12 days to party time. AND she likes the way they look. As my daughter would say, "I'm gooooooooood!"
Here's the front. You can see there is no "baby-ish" stuff on it. All teenager approved colors. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the sun and sand. Adds a little something something, don't you think?
I popped up the sand castle after chalking the edges to make it stand out against the sand underneath.
Love the dancing crabs across the top. The stamp is from one of my Stampin' Up sets. The info stamp was one I got from my Aunt Dot after she passed away. I think we had the same taste in stamps.
Well, I'm very happy with the way it turned out. But, most importantly, Alyssa is happy with them. Now, on to the party planning. Should be fun - yeah, right!
Jill
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