Ever since my twelfth, I’ve been looking forward to my sweet sixteen

I’m sharing a card today featuring Lisa’s Giraffe from Saturated Canary.

This is going out to my niece who is turning 16, which kinda makes me feel a bit old!  But it did give me the opportunity to mark the occasion by putting her age on the card thereby allowing me to play in the current challenge at Moving Along With the Times.

I fussy cut my image so I could remove the giraffe and have her holding on to a balloon instead.  I could have started with another image but this one actually looks a lot like my niece.  To match the floating balloon I decided on a cloud filled background.  I created some on the base using a Snow Marker although they don’t look so fluffy in the photo.  For the shaker window background I started by laying down the alcohol ink in shades of blue and then added in the clouds with Distress Paint topped with some Pearl Mixative for a bit of shine.  I then used white sequins to tie in with the white clouds.

Absolutely loving the Make it Crafty chippies, especially when topped with a layer of clear embossing powder to make them shiny.  This time I double embossed the top layer, first with gold embossing powder and then with clear.  Added the clear powder on top really toned down the gold, making it appear aged.

I’ve used the current board over at the Tic Tac Toe challenge to help with my card design.  I’ve gone with the left column and added accents in gold and dimension through my shaker window, layered chipboard and Snow Marker clouds.  The shaker window also gave me the final element of acetate.

With the shaker element I’ve added some wiggle to my card, it doesn’t show in the photo but the balloon is also wiggly thanks to an Action Wobble.  And all that wiggling matches the current theme at Southern Girls, where I’m also entering my card.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Tim’s Holtz Alterations Framelets ~ 660953 Crazy Stuff

Embellishments

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Shaker Selections ~ Falling Snow  

Make it Crafty Chipboard Words ~ 4" Celebrate 

Inks & Paints etc 

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No 33 Orange, No 36 Wine Red, No 42 Bright Yellow, No 46 Brown, No 51 May Green, No 63 Persian Blue & No 66 Menthol Violet

Marvy Uchida ~ Snow Marker

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Mermaid, Pearl Mixative, Sailboat Blue & Stream

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Picket Fence

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Tea Dye

Papers

Arches Watercolor Paper ~ 185gsm Smooth

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Bermuda Blue & Island Breeze

Couture Creations ~ Acetate

Yupo ~ 200gsm White

Stamps

Saturated Canary ~ Lisa’s Giraffe

Challenges

Moving Along With the Times #53 ~ Add a number

Southern Girls #168 ~ Shake Your Groove Thing, or just make it wiggle a bit

Tic Tac Toe #14 ~ Acetate, Dimension, Gold

Thanks for stopping by!