Wish Birthday Card

Hello Friends!

I made this fun birthday card for a friend of mine who's birthday has passed.  It feels like years but I think I'm a little over a week late at this point.  I was going to give it to her in person-but we all know how seeing people in person is going (not so well!).

My friend had taken a picture with a moon backdrop.  And that's how I was inspired.  This is a clay mold from a Finnabair mold.  Side note: I love making clay molds!  I have all sorts of shapes.  I like to watch tv and just make them.  LOL.

The sentiment: vellum and black cardstock and a Tim Holtz die (Thank you Jennifer McGuire for the vellum idea!) and a Taylored Expressions strip die and stamp.

I used Iris Potion Sparks Prima art alchemy paint which is now one of my most favorite colors.  It's so shiny and fun.  Actually all of the sparks paints are-and I'm totally addicted.  The moon is painted with Ginger Magic.  The clock is a bit of green (fairy wings is the name of that sparks paint).

The clock is a little wooden clock.  I used a key in the middle.  I also used Old Silver Finnabair wax with a Paige Evans Star Stencil.  The pink stars were in my stash.

And I used micro beads to fill in.  Here is a close up.  They are around the moon too.  I'm still working on making my molds smooth on the back.  So here's the truth-when I glue them down there are gaps.  I used the micro beads to fill in these gaps.  I glued more micro beads in places to even out the micro beads look.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Stencil Fun--the silver stars are made using a Paige Evans Stencil

Seize the Birthday #185: Touch of Green--clock

Time Out Challenge: Birthday Theme with die cutting -wish is a Tim Holtz die.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends--reach for the stars! :)

Vintage Elephant Birthday Card

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I'm so excited to show you this fun card.  I had to wait a little before I posted it-I didn't want her to see it too soon.  

I used a stencil and paste for the background.  Then I used distress inks and added water to make a watercolor out of them.  

I added some lace that I was gifted.  The lace is cool because it has gold scallops.  The Wish is a Tim Holtz ticket and so are the stars.  I purple dots are Nuvo Drops.

The elephant is from a Steampunk show I went to.  The vendor had old jewelry blanks and pieces because they bought a warehouse of stuff from a company that went out of business but had been around for many years.  I love this elephant but it was time for him to go :)  The metal flower is from an earring I bought at the show too.  There were many metal flowers on the earrings so I still have a little stash of those. ;)

I am submitting this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: Wendesday Challenge-Anything Goes

Watercolor Wednesday: WWC 223 Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday Anything Goes  #166 with an option-I didn't do the option

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...stay colorful! :)

French Inspired Birthday Card

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There have been a lot of birthdays lately!  Here is a card I just finished for a young friend of ours who loves the Eiffel Tower.

The background is a script background stamp from Stampin Up.  I used clear embossing powder and then used distress oxides over the embossing.  The hot air balloon and Eiffel Tower are Tim Holtz's stamps.  For the balloon I stamped it using distress oxide wilted violet.  I love this color.  Then I heat set it.  After that I put some ink on my mat and a squirt of water and water colored the inside of the balloon.  The background and stamps were stamped on a light beige (vanilla) cardstock instead of white to give it a more vintage look.

The rest of the pretty things are Tim Holtz.  The Enjoy card is from his Flashcards set.  And the postcard and the rest of those fun things are from his little ephemera pack snippets.

Here is the card at a different angle.

I would like to submit this card into the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday: anything goes Topping: script or type--the background

Retro Rubber Challenge: Travel On-use mode of transportation.  The hot air balloon is my mode of tranportaion.  The background script stamp from Stampin Up is from 2000.  Tim Holtz's Eiffel Tower and hot air balloon have been around for a few years.  I maybe got it in 2013 or 2014.

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Enjoy!

Missed Birthday Card

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A sweet friend of mine had a birthday last week.  And I knew it was coming.  And then I watched it go!  Well that's no good.  I knew I had to make my friend a birthday card.  So I got out my crazy birds-because they are always great inspiration within themselves, and I set off to work!

So here's my card:

The background is cracked pistachio distress oxide with a tim holtz stencil.  And for the bird I used wilted violet (oxided di) as a watercolor.  So I put some on my mat and spritz with water.  Then I used a paintbrush to paint the bird.  I did the same thing for the balloon using worn lipstick.

Since I am going to enter this into the challenge at Seize the Birthday I had to take this card up a notch.  LOL :)  I added a white string and a bow on the balloon.

Thank you for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends-have a happy day! :)

Geometric Happy Birthday

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I was inspired by the challenge at "Just Us Girls" to make this card.  Their challenge is Geometric.

I used some Stampin Up stuff that a friend of mind kindly gifted me a while back.  The papers are SU chocolate chip and regal rose and so are the stamp colors.  The white is from Michaels (when they are $2 a pack-you know the ones) ;)

The sentiment is also SU and the circles are from Inkadinkado.  I used their square placing system also to start the pattern of circles and then I filled in the rest.  I also added a brown ribbon.  I don't know about you but I feel successful when I can incorporate ribbon onto a project. :)

The flowers are Tim Holtzs tattered florals and the circle is from spellbinders.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

"Just Us Girls" Geometric

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: For a Special Lady/Girl

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...be happy! :)

Happy Birthday Set

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I'm so excited to share these 3 cards.  I help make cards for my son's school.  The PTO gives home made cards to the teachers for their Birthdays and for Thank Yous.  How cool is that!  So I contribute cards when I can.

You may be familiar with this technique.  It's a lot of fun.  But I stumbled upon it from this pin.  And so here is the tutorial.  And so I used 2 pieces of copy paper and went across the card panel.  I used two distress colors from ranger and then stamped with the 3 stamps.  Everything is from Tim Holtz.  The sentiments are from Crazy Talk.  I love the casualness of the font.

I am so excited to make different versions of these.  I know it's masking-but I hadn't masking that way.  There are so many possibilities!

So I would like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

The Male Room: Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination #119 Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...be inspired! :)

Candle Shaker Card

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So for this card I was inspired by the Shaker Challenge happening now at CAS-ual Fridays.  I have been wanting to make one and I bought a whole bunch of stuff to make one from the Scrapbook Expo a few months ago.  And now-finally some inspiration.  :)

It's also my sister's birthday.  (ok a little past but who's really keeping count?  ok maybe she is!) ;)  And I just found out that her favorite color is red.  So between the challenge of shaker cards and the favorite color red, this is what happened:

So fun, right?!  So I used the silhouette for the flame (from a different candle cut) and made the frame for the shaker part of the candle.  Now the foam is from Queen and Company.  Just the foam.  I didn't buy the die cuts.  I figured it out on the silhouette.  It took about 4 tries, but I finally got it.  I had to get into those 8th measurements (blarg) but I did it.  LOL!  And the cute sequins on the inside--Also Queen and Company.

At the Expo I had to decide-cute sequins or die cuts....totally the cute sequins!  Their pearls and a few of Q&CO diamonds are in there too.  The sentiment is an old fabric sticker.  The background paper is from TPC studio.

I glued a couple of the sequins on the background to make it seem a little fuller.

I am linking this up to the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays--Shaker Cards

Sunny Day Crafting--Anything Goes #16

Seize the Birthday (without Toppings) Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends--Anything Goes #28

Thank you for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends...Make a wish!

Happy Birthday Card

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Today I have finished a card-a CAS card!

At Stamplorations they are having a CAS challenge using green if you want.  I have some Stamplorations stamps-so I thought this would be perfect.  The feathers are from their Trendy Feathers Vignette set. 

Other supplies include:

sentiment: TCM Stamps (I think) ;)

paper: green galore Stampin' Up, white cardstock

ink: green galore SU, Chrome Yellow and Manganese Blue from Ranger

sequins

I would like to submit this card to the following challenges:

Stamplorations

Cards in Envy: Another year older-Birthday Cards

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenges: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a great weekend!