Star Wars Birthday!

This past Sunday was my sons birthday and he is a big fan of Star Wars! So I decided to make him a Star Wars card. I've made him Star Wars before, but do you think I took a picture and posted it! I'll have to get it from him and post that too. Monday was my oldest nephew's birthday so I made him a Star Wars card as well. He to is a Star Wars fan, or at least I think so! Wanted to make his a bit special for two reasons. He is turning 21 and it's been just over a year since his father passed. I think last year we were all just so numb from his sudden passing. Anyway, let's get back to some happy moments! I've saved several Star Wars card on my Pinterest board. I also saw this fabulous box card another demonstrator had made on our Facebook group and I'm sure she spent a long time making it. She did a lot of drawing and cutting to make it. Now I'm not afraid of fussy cutting or anything like that, but I can't draw to save my life! That's part of why I love Stampin' Up! I can stamp and color great! They do all the drawing for me! My husband, daughter, and I think my son can all draw great!

So here is the card I made for my son. I did CASE this card. The original card did a salt technique background. I didn't have a lot of time to do that since I was pulling out some retired punches to make Yoda and the light saber. The Designer Series paper that I used is retired and from one of our Holiday minis. It's actually Christmas or winter paper, but I thought it looked perfect for what I wanted to do. I did stamp the phrase on the front with Labeler Alphabet stamp set (current set!). To make the light saber glowing part is a piece of vellum and colored it. It was a lot of fun to make and really like how well Yoda turned out. I did use several circle punches for the eyes, which I believe are all current. If you have any questions on how I did any of it, contact me, I'd be more then happy to share!

 Here is the inside of the card. The person I CASED the above card had a link to download a free font. So the phrase inside was printed using that Star Wars font. I did stamp the "Happy Birthday". The Millennium Falcon was CASED from Tami White. She had a great video on how to make it. I did use some retired dies and embossing folder to make it but could probably use our current circle framelits.

This last card is for my nephew. I also CASED this from Tami White. I used the star border punch (retired) a little different then how Tami did it so I didn't get as much overlap. I made the light saber like the one I did on the above card instead. I just liked that look a little better. You can change out the Death Star for the Millennium Falcom instead. Watching Tami's video I found out she's a big Star Wars fan. I'll have to let her know about my cards next time I see her!

I hope you enjoyed these cards. It's always fun to make some more challenging cards once in a while!

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