Just about 5 years ago, this coming October, I was blessed to have my daughter Kendall born. Basking in the glow of new motherhood I was unaware that the winter was really...not that far ahead and that I really didn't have another "mommy" friend in the world! Well...I did but none with infants. So I enrolled in a baby yoga class (go ahead and laugh...but I needed to get out!) Where I met some lovely women...(and some NOT so lovely women;) One of the women that I met I maintain a DAILY relationship with and we are blessed to live close together and have our children be able to play on a regular basis. Our other friend moved away about a little over a year ago =( much to our sadness. She wanted to be closer to family...which we got. But we were going to miss her and her delicious family very much as all of our children got along famously.
Well coming up is HER first daughter's 5
th birthday (which I can't believe!!) and I wanted to make her card something super, duper, extra special. She is as girlie as girlie comes. Loves everything princess, dolly related, fairy tales and sparkles. (and honestly...what little girl doesn't?)
So I started thinking...and pawing through my immense paper stash. The first piece I pulled out was
Stemma brand Life's A Beach style DP. They spend a lot of time at their lake house in the summer so there's lots of beach play going on!! I then pulled out a slice of my
urbanlily.com 123 girl paper...which I've been WAITING to use for the better part of 2 years....seriously. So the colors were coming and speaking to me at this point. So I grabbed the following
SU! colors: Only Orange, Tempting Turquoise (a standard go to for me), and Pretty in Pink.
I started with the '5' as I knew I wanted to embellish it and it'd need time to dry. The
cardstock was not too heavy so I backed it with blank chipboard that I had on hand. I roughed up the edges a bit and then haphazardly ran over the edges with my
SU! Only Orange stamp pad.
I wanted to
bling it out a bit so I then grabbed my Scotch Brand 2 way glue applicator and using the small nozzle end I traced the flowers and added some really chunky pink glitter and set it aside to dry.
I then headed back to the card. I used the
Stemma paper as the first layer. I then wanted to add some more dimension (without too much height off of the card) so I stitched pieces of the PIP and
OO papers using my Brother sewing machine. I ran 4 different stitch styles up and down creating another background-
esque effect. The 5 was now nearly dry so I set to the inside of the flower. I used the same Scotch brand glue but then hit the inside of the flower with my Making Memories scrapbook shimmer glitter in peach. I again...set it aside to dry.
I absolutely HAD to add a touch of "queen" in this card so I pulled out my never before inked
Imaginisce -
Snag'em Stamp from the Fairest of Them All collection - The Castle. I stamped it with my Brilliance
Pearlescent Sky Blue in, coated it in embossing powder and heat set it with my heat gun. I used the
Copic markers that you see here to color in various parts of the castle.
I backed it with a slice of
SU!
TT and tied the sheerest and
pinkist ribbon I had just as a little "extra". And if you look closely enough you'll see that I used my
Sakura Glue Pen to dazzle up the front door of the castle with some chunky silver craft glitter that I always keep on hand.
I sent this out to her today in a package with a bunch of birthday goodies!!!
I can't wait for her to receive them!!
(Her sister's birthday was back at the beginning of the summer so I have her card to post tomorrow!!!)
Hope everyone is keeping as cool as possible!!!
XOXOXO
I recently, with the help of Facebook, have reconnected with some MUCH MISSED high school friends. We have had a couple of gatherings that have lasted well into the wee hours of the morning. It's amazing to see where we're all at, what's going on in our lives and to re-establish those friendships now on an adult level. My darling friend Suzie has a GORGEOUS new baby. He's delicious from head to toe!!! Last Saturday night we all went to Suzie's house to hang out and as a gift I made this tri-picture frame. I at the last minute, while cleaning the glass to cover the pictures, cracked it right in my hands so it ended up being a more 3-D project than I had anticipated but I think it's super cute regardless!! Most of the product used is from SU!
I picked up the frame somewhere along my travels and just attacked it with my sanding block to give it that more antiqued/distressed look.
I had so much fun adding layer upon layer of detail. It also helps to have such a delicious subject to work with!!
