Lynda's birthday

Hi Friends... and happy Friday to you all

Today I want to share the card that I made for our daughter Lynda for her birthday.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out but I needed to tweak it a bit to make it do what I wanted.   I used Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles.  The largest of the dies in this set is 5 x 7 and that is the cover on this card.  But it's a kind of 'false front'.  

If you look closely at the following picture, you'll see that that the card has a double front.  I affixed the folded card to the false front to achieve this. Sometimes when things just don't want to cooperate, you make do with another method and that's what went on here. After I figured out the construction, I chose some pretty lavender Copics to color the image.  The stamp set is called Passion Flower from Flourishes.  The design artist is one of my favorites, Marcella Hawley.   

The image is stamped on the second of this spellbinders' set and I sponged the background while the paper was still in the die. I stamped the flowers off twice so I could cut out the two large blossoms and pop them up on the card. Last, I added the rhinestones from my SU pack.

Lynda loved this card and I hope you do too.  

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Color Throwdown Sunflower

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Today we're going to play with the Color Throwdown folks.  This weeks challenge is to use the colors of Pacific Point, Crushed Curry, and Old Olive.  Here is the inspiration picture... you can click here to view their fabulous samples.



As soon as I saw this inspiration photo, I guess the idea of a sunflower got hard wired into my brain and I just couldn't think of any other flower to use.  Fortunately, one of my favorite sets is by Flourishes Stamps, called 'sunflowers'.  Here is my card

As I've been saying in my previous blogs, I am trying to do more CAS cards (clean and simple) but, somehow, this card just needed to have some more detail so I went to a sketch I've had for some time and matched my colors with a strip of DSP from SU's Print Poetry mini stack.  

I colored the sunflower with my Copics and added a candy dot from the brights collection in Pacific Point to kind of balance the blues.  I love the sentiment which reads...

"Turn your face to the sun

and the shadows fall behind you"

I hope you like my sunny card ... it reminds me of a trip we took to Colorado one late summer and all the sunflowers were blooming in this one particular field.  We passed by it several times that day visiting friends and I noticed each time the sunflowers had their faces in a different direction... each time facing the sun!  

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Mashed-Up Strawberries

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Today I always look at the Friday Mashup to see what they've come up with this week.  This challenge is for the "end of summer" and they showed slices of watermelon using the colors of Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Black and White... or use a wood element... or both.  **note**...  I guess it may be the end of summer in the eastern states but certainly not here in SoCal.  We're expecting a warm up with the chance of monsoonal thunderstorms each day for the next week.  That says humidity to me, folks.  I'm not a fan of humid weather - or heat either, for that matter.  

Well, on to the card.  Check out their illustration and samples Here to go over to the Friday Mashup.  I chose to mash it up by using the challenge colors and a wood element.  The bottom panel of my card is the wood dsp from SU and I ran it through the big shot using the woodgrain embossing folder.  Here 'tis....

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This yummy image is by Flourishes and I colored it with my copics getting as close to the target colors as possible.  After coloring it (on whisper white) I cut it out using my Labels 8 nestabilities.  Then I cut another Labels 8 in wild wasabi to set it off a bit.  What do you think of the ribbon?  I've had it in my stash for a long time.  When I saw this at Michael's (years ago) I knew I needed to have it but it's never been just right for my cards.  I love it on this one ... those are some ginormous ants!!!

Bailey saw me taking pictures of this card and, wanting attention, decided to plop on it.  Ha Ha, I had already taken the card pictures but couldn't resist taking this pic of  my funny baby!!!

Well, that's it for today - I hope you like the card - and my #1 assistant  =^..^=

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