Saturday, November 5, 2011

Birthday Card

I've seen so many pretty easel cards and decided that I needed to give one a try.  It was a friend's Birthday so I thought this was the perfect time to make something a little fancier.  

The starting point was that I wanted it to include orange.  I picked the orange background paper first and then worked around that.  I wasn't sure what color I was going to go with for the card base. Black was too Halloween-ish, brown didn't seem festive enough and lighter colors just weren't right either.  Then I saw this blue shiny paper and knew I'd found a match.  I tried all kinds of new techniques on this card too.  I used a Spellbinder's die to make the card itself.  I really like the shaped card base.  I'm sure there will be more of these in  my future.  I also wanted to try making some colored paper using distress inks spritzed with water.  I'm sure this technique has a name, but I don't know what it is.  Anyway, that's how I made the paper that the Happy Birthday is stamped, then embossed on.  Then the card needed a bit of bling.  I won a prize pack at the Member's Event at Scrapbooker's Paradise.  Included in that, amongst lots of other goodies, was some glimmer mist.  I sprayed some on the flowers and I have to say I'm in love with glimmer mist!


So that's it for this card.  Lots of playing around and I think it turned out pretty well.  My friend liked it and that is all that mattered.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Scrapbooker's Paradise  PPC #40 
Catch the Bug  Anything Goes

8 comments:

  1. beautiful card! love the paper! thanks for playing this weeks Bugaboo challenge at catch the bug!

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  2. Beautiful card and beautiful background! Thanks for Playing in Paradise with us!

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  3. Love, love, love the colors on this one! :0)

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  4. Nice and bright! Thanks for Playing in Paradise with us!

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  5. This is so shinny and bright. I too am a huge fan of Glimmer Mist. Thanks so much for joining us at Bugaboo this week

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  6. So pretty and shiny! I love the label shape carried throughout. :) Thanks for Playing in Paradies this week!

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  7. So cute and fun...great shape and super fun shimmery CS! Thanks for playing at Scrapbooker's Paradise!

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  8. What a fun card! Thanks for playing PPC with us.

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