…there was in me an invincible summer

Sharing a CAS but elegant card featuring the beautiful Uptown Zodiac Girl Virgo stamp from Stamping Bella.

This card is for my niece who turned 18 earlier this week and is therefore a Virgo.  I didn’t have any suitable number stamps to match the pretty image so went with a cursive sentiment from the New Wonders set from Stampin’ Up!.

The layout of my card follows the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.  I placed my image in the middle of the circular element, which I created with splattered paint so I could play along at TGIF for their technique challenge.  I scattered some gems among the splatters as the current theme at Crafty Friends is to add embellishments.

Usually I have difficulty choosing colours but for this card it was easy.  I went with the yellowy green for the dress, gems and my mat as the peridot is the August birthstone.  I’ve coloured up the flowers in Virgo’s hair as yellow poppies as one of the August flowers is the poppy.  Although the card is fairly CAS, I am super happy with how it turned out, way happier than I am at the thought of having an 18-year-old niece, where the chubby, gurgling little baby I swear she was only last week went I have no idea!

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Embellishments

Peridot Gems from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen, Black Soot, Fossilized Amber, Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge, Spun Sugar, Tea Dye, Twisted Citron & Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Tarnished Brass

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Bellbird Paperarts Card ~ 300gsm Cotton Blend

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Kraft-Stock ~ Metallic Jewels Green

Stamps

Stamping Bella ~ Uptown Zodiac Girl Virgo

Stampin’ Up! ~ 149426 New Wonders (sentiment)

Challenges

Crafty Friends #117

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