(Sorta Shabby) Chic Birthday

I absolutely love script backgrounds--L.O.V.E!  I took a piece of leftover cream watercolor paper and stamped the script using Distress Ink and randomly splattered the same.  Still a bit too un-vintage.  What to do?  Fire!  I used a grill lighter to roast the edges all around.  Squee!  I wish I had done this over a sink just in case since the fire moved so quickly once it got going.  Background:  check!  Safety:  need a lesson from Smokey the Bear.

Next I colored up one of my current favorite stamps (thanks, Tonya!; the hostess code is 9HZBDHKP).  I used an 80lb paper when coloring so adhered another layer using Scor-Tape to make it nice and sturdy.  Then I fussy cut the lot out.  Focal image:  check!

I had a tough time deciding on the sentiment and its placement.  I settled on a seal of sorts with gold text which reminds me of seal wax.  I mounted the flower on foam tape, hiding the blah end of the seal banner.  Birthday card:  check!

The Details:  Stampin' Up Birthday Blooms, Papertrey Ink Mixed Messages and kraft cardstock, Inkadinkado Script, Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Versamark, Ranger gold embossing powder, Recollections 110lb black and white cardstock, Artist's Loft 140lb cold press watercolor paper, Hammermill 80lb color copy cardstock, Scor-Tape, Copic R00, R39, R43, R46, YG11, YG17, YG51, YG63, YG67, G29

I'm entering this is Shopping Our Stash #241 White Out, Allsorts #353 International Women's Day,  Seize the Birthday Anything Goes, Try it on Tuesdays Feminine and Fancy

Happy Thoughts Inside

 

I'm back but will be hit or miss the next few weeks--have some home remodeling in the works.  Dust in my hair, ink on my fingers--it's all good.

With this card I:

• Offset the frame dies for interest
• Free-formed the flower--just gathered and stitched as I went along with the sewing machine-- then coiled some copper beaded wire from my jewelry-making stash for the center
• Heated some of the stray embossing powder before noticing  then added more because I loved the effect
• Originally used a decorative stitch on the scalloped border--too busy--then put another piece over it and straight-stitched.

The Details:  PTI kraft cardstock and sentiment, Brilliance Graphite Black, Stampendous black embossing powder, mystery designer papers, MME Hello Brad, Spellbinders border and frame dies, Robin's Nest Dewdrops, BoBunny doily, Glossy Accents

I'm entering this in:  Totally Papercrafts #208 Make it Shine,  Simply Create Too #56 Shop in Your Stash, Daring Cardmakers Sentimental, Let's Craft & Create #89 Embossing, Card Makin' Mamas CMM81 Stack It Up, As You Like It Favorite 3D Texture & Why, Papertake Weekly Anything Goes, Shopping Our Stash #141 3-2-1 (3 dewdrops, 2 Spellbinder frame dies, doily), Sentimental Sundays #196 Sketch  and Dream Valley #76 Vintage