Happy Birthday, Michele!

Hi, everyone.

Hope everybody's weekend is off to a great start! I'm sneaking in a little blogging time while hubby is at a basketball game.  :)

Tonight, I have a birthday card for a dear friend. This is an atypical card for me because of all the glittery paper. Since most of my cards are for Operation Write Home, the menopause room is usually a glitter-free zone.  It's also a tad fussier than my usual cards.

Bo Bunny snowfall 12" x 12" and 6" x 6" papers; Stampin' Up! espresso core paper
SU Snow Day snowflake image in Distress Ink vintage photo
Distress Inks  (vintage photo and walnut stain) applied with SU daubers and Ranger blending tools
Marvy and Paper Shaper circle punches; Creative Memories circle cutting system
SU pool party ribbon; Zots 3D glue dot

Bo Bunny snowfall 12" x 12" papers; Stampin' Up! espresso core paper
Winnie & Walter Big, Bold, Happy sentiment in Distress Ink vintage photo
SU Snow Day snowflake image in Distress Ink vintage photo
Distress Inks  (vintage photo and walnut stain) applied with SU daubers and Ranger blending tools
Creative Memories circle cutting system
 

I'm going to link this card up to a couple of challenges. The first of these is the current Monday Simon Says Stamp winter-stamping challenge. I stamped the snowflake stamp from the SU Snow Day stamp set in DI vintage photo to add a little more interest to the Bo Bunny paper -- using first, second, third, and fourth generation images. Since OWH winter card deadlines have passed, I was originally going to pass on this challenge. But, then I realized this was a great opportunity to make a card for my friend's February birthday.

2-Sided GLITTERY Paper

Cut-Out circle was used
inside top of card.
 

The second challenge is the current Shopping Our Stash not-your-normal-paper challenge. The SOS Team is challenging us to use paper we just had to have, but have only hoarded. The pattern papers on the card above are from two-sided 12" x 12" sheets from the Bo Bunny snowfall collection that I bought years ago.

I loved the 6" x 6" Bo Bunny papers so much, that I just had to have the pretty blue on these larger sheets. However, these two-sided larger papers presented one major challenge for my OWH card-making endeavors: the reverse side was glittery -- a huge no-no for OWH. So, I placed the papers in a plastic bag, labeled with a glitter warning on the front of the bag, and stored them out of sight.

 

 

 

 

 

Parting Thoughts

Erika's Winning W2SB Card

Congratulations to Erika who won our January Words 2 Scrap By hashtag-sentiment challenge. Erika, please e-mail me about your prizes. 

Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping and happy scrappin'!