Birthday Set with Mendi + Creative Team Call

It’s Mendi here and I’m so excited to be sharing a fun Birthday card and gift bag set that I made using several of Lori’s darling shapes!

This set came about because I was wanting to create a “Sweet 16” milestone birthday card. I was thrilled to see that Lori already had the work done for me with her cute phrase (and even more thrilled to realize I had a “happy” stamp that matched perfectly from Avery Elle’s Oh Yeah set). I chose to turn the number 16 into candles with the help of a little embroidery floss and a flame cutting file from another candle by Lori.

For my cupcake I used some Glossy Accents on the sprinkles and flames and a paper piercer with a ruler to form holes so that I could hand-stitch the ribs in my cupcake wrapper (after ungrouping and removing other cutouts).

When I was done I thought it would be really fun to make a matching gift bag, but I didn’t have any of Lori’s newest cupcake boxes on hand so I tried to get creative. I took her apple favor box file (keeping the base the same size and discarding the apple portion) and enlarged that same cupcake to create a front and back for my little box. I was able to sandwich some ribbon between the layers to form my handles and it worked perfectly.

To create my little Birthday ensemble I used the following cutting files which are available for purchase in Lori’s Shop:

Cupcakes
Apple Favor Box
Simple Borders (zig–zag)
Cupcake Birthday Card (for flame)
Phrase: Sweet 16 (Silhouette Store only)

I hope I’ve inspired you to take some time to play today. 😉

Are you interested in being part of our Creative Team? Well now is your chance.

We currently have openings on our Digital AND Paper team and would love to have you join us. You will need to submit 3 samples of your work using any of Lori’s files, tell us just a big about yourself and provide a link to your blog or Facebook page. Be sure to have all of this emailed to info@loriwhitlock.com by July 18, 2014 at midnight in order to be considered for a position. We will make an announcement on the blog the next week introducing our newest team members! Good luck to you all!