Sharing a birthday
card featuring the gorgeous Uptown Zodiac Girl Gemini stamp from Stamping Bella.
The layout for my
card follows the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch, I’ve just enlarged the circle
element and shifted part of my sentiment up a bit. The sketch elements also allowed me to
indulge my love of matting.
For my colour
scheme I googled for yellow colour palettes as the Gemini colour is
yellow. I water coloured my image, brining
in colours from the card base to tie it together. I also picked my orange designer paper to tie
in with the image as it has pretty little flowers like the ones the twins are
holding. Love when I actually have stuff
in my stash that ties together, well, OK so the paper is very new stash but was
stash nonetheless.
With all my
layers I didn’t need too many embellies other than the fabby chippies I used
for the sentiment but I wanted to play along at Crafty Sentiments Designs so I added
some bitty gems and pearls to the centres of the flowers.
Over at Shopping Our Stash they want to see your favourite things. Well I have to say one of my all-time fav
things are the chippies from Make it Crafty, I horde them but I also use them on
cards whenever I can, they are simply awesome!
At a stretch you could say I’ve also got a die cut on this and while the
particular die isn’t my fav, I couldn’t possibly pick one of those, dies are my
absolute addiction. I’m also very
partial to the bitty gems and pearls, so bummed Close To My Heart discontinued
them, theirs were the bomb!
Ingredients:
Chalks &
Powders etc
Ranger Embossing
Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear
Dies, SVGs &
Templates etc
Paper Rose ~ 16742
Scalloped Circle Frames
Spellbinders Nestabilities
~ 114 Standard Circles Large
Embellishments
Close To My Heart
~ Bitty Gems & Pearls
Make it Crafty Chipboard
Adapt-a-Words ~ Birthday
Make it Crafty Chipboard
Single Layered Word ~ 3¾'' Birthday
Inks & Paints
etc
Copic Multiliner
~ Black
Derwent Watercolor
Pencil ~ 32 Spectrum Blue
Kuretake Gansai Tambi
Water Colors ~ No 61 Cornflower Blue
Tim Holtz
Distress Ink ~ Dried Marigold, Fossilized Amber, Ground Espresso, Mowed Lawn, Mustard
Seed, Peeled Paint, Ripe Persimmon, Rusty Hinge, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade
& Tea Dye
Papers
Bazzill Card
Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow
Bazzill Criss
Cross Cardstock ~ Lily White
Bazzill Smoothie
Cardstock ~ Milkshake
BoBunny
Cottontail ~ Bunnies & Springtime
Stamps
Challenges
Thanks for
stopping by!