Birthday cards

Good evening everyone.  What a rainy weekend we have had here in Oregon.  Makes me soo happy football season is over for my kids!  Here are 2 birthday cards I came up with for my upline and close friend Karen's recent birthday.

This first one uses one of the new in-colors Raspberry Ripple - I love this color!!  And one of my all time fav stamp sets Create a Cupcake.

I used Rich Razzleberry for this cute card.  The stamp is a retired one from a hostess set from last years catalog.  The ribbon is retired too which is such a bummer since I used this ribbon ALL the time.  The DSP is from the Brights Color Collection Designer Series Paper Stack which I need to use more often - it is a great collection of paper.