Happy Birthday Slugger!

Here is a birthday card that I made for Parker's best friend Joseph.  Joseph is also the son of our good friends Joe and Angela.  His birthday was last Friday and Saturday was his first baseball game of the season.  He was so excited last week to show me his new team uniforms!  They are the Lugnuts and their uniforms are black and red (DISNEY colors!!!),  We love Joseph and we love going to his baseball games.  We were there in the cold, blowing wind on Saturday for his first game and although his team lost, Joseph played an AWESOME game!  He is a sure bet for the team MVP this year!  Game two is tonight and we will be there cheering him on once again!  GO LUGNUTS!!! 

This card was pretty plain, but it ended up with exactly the look I was going for!  I wanted the outside framing with the stitching to resemble a baseball.  I cut the baseball player out of black at 5" from the Sports Mania Cricut cartridge.  After matting the baseball player onto a piece of red, I matted it again on top of a piece of black before stitching with the white thread.  Then I took a piece of white cardstock and cut it just a little smaller than the card base and ran it through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder before using the red thread to stitch it onto the card.  The sentiment was computer generated. 

I am entering this card into the following challenge:

What I Like to do in the Spring Challenge over at Lynda's Creative Touches

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By the way...my E2 was delivered on Friday!!!  I didn't get a chance to get it out of the box until Saturday night and I did get it all Sync'd and updated along with my Gypsy.  However, that is all I got to do with it at that time since I still had to finish up my blog hop post for yesterday and hop through my fellow crafters posts from Saturday.  ...but I did finally get a chance to play with my E2 yesterday and I'm in love!!!  I have to say that the number one thing I noticed and fell in love with IMMEDIATELY are the little mat guides built in so that the mat stays right on track when you load it!  LOVE THIS FEATURE!!!  I have been working on a couple of cards using my E2 that I will be sharing within the next couple of days!