Happy 50th (what?!?) to Michele!

Welcome to the fabulous fiftieth birthday hop for my friend Michele Gross, a.k.a., CAS-ual Fridays founder, owner and designer extraordinaire! You may have come from Irit Shalom, but if not feel free to jump to the beginning of the festivities at the CAS-ual Fridays blog.

Here we are in January at Creativation ... umm, where is the fifty-year-old?!? MAYBE fourty. I don't get it. Good looks aside, Michele is the sweetest around, so laid back, and has an edgy wit about her that makes her hilarious to hang out with. I am so happy and honored to help celebrate her fiftieth with my old teammates and friends.

The card I made for Michele's big event just had to use her famous WTF 2 set, right?! The original WTF was one of her first stamp sets five years ago, and it really made everyone take notice of this new stamp company in town. I also wanted to use one of her new coffee sets, and I've been dying to play with the adorable To Go Cup Fri-die. So there you have it, old and new ... almost sounds like this is a wedding shower for Michele!

I die cut two additional coffee cups from my husband's thick comic book backing boards to layer underneath for some dimension, and then cut a third piece for the lid so it would stick out from the cup more. Just like in real life. 

 I was super excited that the sentiment embossed on the cup itself just barely fit between the edges. At first I wasn't going to stamp it there because there weren't any margins left on the sides. But then after I looked at it more, it reminded me of when you see writing going around a cup in real life, you often see it going off the edge of your vision as it wraps around the cup. So then I ended up liking it even better without the margins.

To help me cut the glitter insides for the letters I ended up embossing the outlines because ink would not show up on the uneven glitter surface.

The background is stamped with a few more WTF's.

CAS-ual Fridays has the best sentiments for inside the card, so I ended up using three different stamps to customize my birthday wishes for Michele. The last two are from Frankly'isms and are just perfect for this occasion.

Prize Alert!
Michele will be giving away (5) $50 gift codes (WOW, can't wait for her 60th birthday party!!) from comments left at CAS-ual Fridays and the rest of the blogs on this hop.

Your next stop is Susan White who is also wishing Michele a fabulous fifty.

Thanks so much for stopping by! And a big happy birthday to you, dear Michele!!
-Kelly