Turning 30!

My friend Karen is turning 30 this week, actually tomorrow and to celebrate, I made her this card inspired by the color swatch from the ladies at Wplus9 Color Cue Blog. Karen had a fabbo double birthday party with her son this past weekend. 3 & 30 at 3:30!! hehe (she has a little thing for numbers) So, I decided to take her present (and card) to another level and made sure there were 30 of each item. Her card has 30 presents, that is if you include the one inside too. And turquoise was one of her main colors, FUN!

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I stamped the presents in Versa Mark and then heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. I stamped my little presents onto Tempting Turquoise & Perfect Plum and only cut out 1/2 of the center package to paper piece on top after I ran then through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. The other two presents I colored in and then colored two small flowers from my Pretties Kit to place on top. The 30's are all stamped in Versa Mark and then glittered up with a 1/2 & 1/2 mix of Heat & Stick Powder and Dazzling Diamonds. A bit of White Organza Ribbon and a tiny Happy Birthday greeting attached with Hemp Twine.

The rest of the goodies shown below...there was a bag of chocolate that I forgot to put in the pic. It didn't have 30 pieces in it but I thought she'd enjoy something any woman wants on their special day, chocolate!!! Can't ever have enough (wink)

Punches Used: Small Oval, 2-1/2" Circle, 2-3/8" Scallop Circle

"Fall" In Love

This weeks Play Date Cafe' photo inspiration reminded me of a crisp fall, Tahoe day, where the air is fresh and the leaves are crunchy beneath the boots that you slipped on to keep your toes warm during your morning walk in the woods...and what comes after the crispness, well none other than the clean beauty of snow and ice! I pulled out my color coach and matched Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery & River Rock to the photo and then I sat...literally...and started creating in my mind. I know everyone has their own way of putting things together, some sketch, others pull out a variety of items that might work and of course there are also those that just start stamping. Me, well, I always start cutting (and hope for the best!).

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I started off by using a snowflake embossing folder directly on the front of my Baja Breeze, sponged a wee bit of RETIRED Frost White shimmer paint over the entire front and then got the snazzy idea to somehow create a window with a stamped image behind it. Using the 2-3/8" Scallop Circle Punch, my idea started coming to life (or rather to paper, hehe). I heat embossed Gold embossing powder onto my skating couple from Winter Post, which pairs very nicely with the River Rock, if I do say so myself. I wanted to create more of a matted look so instead of doing it with paper, I did it with shadows, by popping back my image on the inside of the card. After punching out an oval from my scrap of scallop circle, I layered a smaller oval in River Rock with a saying from RETIRED Sale-A-Brations Vintage Labels. A bit of Certainly Celery Ribbon and RETIRED gold cord and viola, simple, sweet & starting to get in the mood!! (for Christmas that is!)

Happy Stamping!!