Hello and welcome! We have a new challenge up at Seize the Birthday and this time, our newest leading lady, Jenny, has chosen the Topping to be ‘Milestone‘. As always, the topping is optional and it’s always ‘Anything Goes‘ birthday.
Over the past couple of months, I have been playing with my new stash a lot. Also, I wasn’t using my embossing folders a lot until then, so I made plenty of use of them – so much that all my ideas started having them! This time I wanted to change that up a bit – I thought of using something that I don’t use often – or I might even say have difficulty using – pattern papers. And here’s what I made –
I started with the focal piece. I used a piece of ivory cardstock to stamp the images from Concord and 9th Painted Peony (April 2021 release). I also used some watercolor marker pens (what we call sketch pens here in India) to add some more highlighting dots and dashes over the flowers and leaves. Once done, I die cut the piece using Winnie & Walter Essentials: Lana’s Cutaways die. I then masked off a part of the die cut and used a makeup brush to brush a soft layer of green. I then removed the mask and stamped the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Mix n Match Butterflies.
I also die cut a piece of pattern paper from an old stack from my stash (yeah, I hoarded quite a few pattern papers) called Farmer’s Market from We R Memory Keepers. When I was about to adhere the pieces together, I felt that I could add something to the ivory cardbase. So I masked off parts of the card to add strips of green over on the edges of the cardbase. I then adhered the pattern paper and the focal piece.
At this point I was super happy with the card but suddenly realized that there was no mention of milestone anywhere!! But thankfully, I got the idea of adding the die cut clip from My Favorite Things Hip Clip die. I colored it with the same shade as the topmost strip in the card base and then die cut ’40’ using Neat & Tangled Journaling Numbers dies and adhered them on top of the card. Whew!
And that finished my card! And I’m joining these challenges too –
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Anything Goes
Retro Rubber challenge #251: Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More challenge #489: Anything Goes
Checkout what the rest of my team (who are a bit more clever than me!) has created along with the creations of our wonderful guests over at the Seize the Birthday challenge blog! And don’t forget to join the party yourself!
Thank you so much for stopping by! 🙂
Experiments With Card Making Etc 