Shake your Birthday.

 
Shake Shake Shake .... Shake your birthday.

 Shaker cards are always fun to make and this one is for my niece.
Using the challenge from the Card Concept and the use of Pink, Gold and Black.
With black card stock I cut the balloon with a Simon Says balloon die. I backed the die cut with a new sheet of clear acetate with white polka dots from Recollections..
 I backed that with a specialty paper from Recollections in pink with mylar gold dots and filled the space with gold and iridescent sequins.
I cut the sentiment from a different shade of pink card stock and edged that with a die hard oldie but goodie martha steward edge of lace.  I stamped with a new embossing in gold and pink glitter.
I tied off the balloon with pink bakery twine in a bow.
All placed on a soft pink base.

I'd like to add this card to the following challenges if I may:

    The Card Concept - Colors - Using Freestyle







Simon Says - Something New

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

Sparkles - Anything Goes.

Thanks everyone for peeking and have a wonderful day.

Dawn

Green and Pink fun

              This was a fun card that sort of transformed differently.
Starting with black card stock, I cut it with a side fold and then trimmed the front off leaving a small strip.  I tucked that into a dotted embossing folder and ran that through my Cuttlebug.  With the green card stock I tucked that up under the black strip and glue them together (giving the inside of the card two tones of color.
With a piece of white card stock, I used another embossing folder and ran that through and then sponged on distressed inks in
I added a pink polka dot ribbon around the piece and glued the edge to butt up black piece.
With the piece that I cut, I stamped the sentiment and used hot pink embossing powder.  I then used a circle punch.  I attached it with dimensional tape to lift it off of the card.
I would like to add this card to the following challenges if I may:

Sparkles - Happy Birthday

 

Color Throwdown

 



MOJO Monday









Thank you for looking
Have a great day


Dawn

Starting off the New Year

Happy New Year and
Happy Anniversary


The first card of the new year is an Anniversary Card for my friends on the other coast.
Starting with some printed bling paper from DCVM - a shiny silver/glitter piece that I used a PennyBlack edge die.
The maroon card stock I put through my cuttlebug with a Cricut folder of swirls.
The sentiment was just stamped on white CS with some very small diamond bling added to the side.
Off in the mail it goes.





I would like to add this card to the following challenges if I may:

The Double D Challenge- Anniversary
Casual Fridays - Celebrate
Creative Corner - Anything Goes
Polkadoodles - Anything Goes.

Thanks for looking.
And ....... Happy New Year.

Happy New Year

HERE'S WISHING EVERYONE

THE BEST WISHES ~ SUCCESS~HEATH

FOR THE NEW YEAR

The Big Day ... The Wedding

 

     
Sorry I haven't been around in a very long time ... we were in wedding prep for a complete head to toe DIY wedding.
My beautiful daughter Jennifer and her husband Matt.
It was an amazing event and my daughter planned everything to the absolute minute detail.
99% was hand crafted and turned out absolutely beautiful (The other one percent were purchased table linens and boxed lights LOL)

So let me share with you some of the hard work by the crafters at hand.

Paper crafts abound from up above to the ground and everywhere in between.  

Below are hand painted blank cd discs strung to hang from the trees ... so beautiful. 

Then there was the open air chapel that they guys created from scratch .......

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 

And more crafts ....




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A bit of green on green

 


       I have a new die and some new inks ... testing them out a bit.  On white card stock I used a Penny Black border edge die which a got a thump print on.  That pushed me into going over the entire piece with green ink ... blending in different shades.  I used Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron and Evergreen Bough.   Then dropping water droplets onto the color to lift.
          The sentiment was stamped with Green StazOn and heat set with clear embossing powder.   I then brushed the edge of the entire card with Twisted Citron with rounded edges.





I would like to add this card to the following challenges if I may:
QTR:  Monotone - shades of green.
Creative Corner: Favorite colors
Through the Purple Haze - ATG

Thank you for peeking.
Have an amazing week.


Dawn

Happy Happy

     


     This was a color piece that I've had on my work table for a over a month.  It started from a challenge technique long ago with blending distressed inks and then using a stamp with water to reverse stamp.  I loved how it came out, but never had the time to come up with something to finish it.  So since it was clean the craft room day ...  today was the day,  I don't remember which distressed inks I used, I believe I see peacock feathers, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, picked raspberry, seedless preserves and blue print sketch.   The stamp that I used is from Fiskars I believe? - Daisy's.

        I popped a 2" circle and stamped the sentiment with Black StazOn and brushed the edge with Peacock Feathers.  I used blue glitter dots and paper flowers to make it festive.  All of that mounted on a black CS base that has an edge of washi tape along the side to tie in with the sketch challenge.

      I mounted it on white CS and ran some faux stitching around the edge.
I would like to add this to the following challenges if I may ....

Try Stamping Tuesday: Sketch #282
Simon Says: Go Wild (color and flowers)
Polkadoodles: Anything Goes
Card Mania: Lets Party
Stamplorations: Theme and Sketch, Stamps and Markers & Sketch

Have an amazing day everyone ... now back to the Olympics

Dawn