collage-y birthday cards

You may know that card making is my inspiration blocker,
creative juice drainer--
for whatever reason, the thought of making a card stops
me dead in my tracks almost every time.  BUT it's Aunt
Helen's birthday, and by golly, she deserves a special card.

So I made her two, just in case:

embossed collage background, vintage alphabet, charm

bird and ephemera from Vintage Page Designs

The bird and ephemera are all from Vintage Page Designs, the butterfly
transparency is from Altered Pages, and that awesome alphabet set (my favorite
du jour) is  from Blockheads

detail photo, just like the cool kids do . . . ;)

The collage bird easel card wants to play along here:
Frilly and Funkie--Let's See Some Texture--the handmade, embossed paper behind the bird
Fashionable Stamping--Nature
It's All About The Vintage--summer/butterflies