Day 57 of #100day project – 90th Birthday Card

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For today’s project, I was contacted by a favorite customer with a request for an extra special birthday card for a special friend turning 90. Well that is certainly a grand number and requires a stand out card. The birthday girls favorite colors are pink, purple and blue and she likes flowers. If you know me, you know purple is my favorite color so I tend to make a lot of purple cards and things so I decided to go with pink (I’m sorry my pictures look peachy to me but the card base is a soft dusty pink).

I chose one of my Tattered Lace die sets that I got a while ago from Createandcraft.com for the lacy look. I cut a pink base at 12″ x 8 3/8″ and scored on the long side at 3″ and 6″ for a gatefold card. I cut my mat layers from an old DCWV pad called Midnight Berry. I chose a deep pinky purple and gold sheet that really gives an elegant feel to the card. The lacy pieces were cut from white card stock.

I cut the circle mat from the same patterned card stock and attached it to left side gate. I embellished with some fern pieces from a K & Company pack I had, a lovely pink flower and a blue butterfly from my stash.

For the inside I lined it in white, then used dies from my stash to cut the sentiment. I have no idea where I got the number dies from and the Happy Birthday was probably from Spellbinders. I cut everything twice out of pink and once out of the patterned gold paper. I stacked them all together so they have a slight pink shadow and it gives a bit of dimension by layering. I cut some extra “birthday”s and cut out the “th” for the 90th. I also used one of the circle dies from the set I used on the front and cut it equally into 4 pieces to accent the corners of the interior.

I used my envelope score board to make a matching pink envelope. Since I knew the card was going to be hand delivered I could add dimension so I used 1 large and 2 small matching pink plowers. Then I used both decorative circle dies from the same set as the card front and cut them out of the same gold patterned paper and added them to the corner of the envelope to mimic the card interior corners.

I am so pleased with this card – I just love it! I almost didn’t want to sell it. I hope my customer and the recipient both like it as much as I do.

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Jeanette

Days 38 & 39 of #100dayproject

As I said in my last post, I am dog sitting for a dear friend.  She is another crafter friend and has a craft room with just about everything you could imagine in it (aaahhh – Heaven!).  I have spent the last two days on a “one page wonder” project.  If you don’t know what that is, you strategically cut apart a piece of patterned paper (in my case a 12″ x 12″ piece) to get the most out of it.  You can find cutting patterns all over Pinterest – just search “one page wonder”, or you can cut it your own way.

I was able to get 16 cards – yes, I said 16 cards out of one sheet of Stampin Up’s “Botanical Butterflies”.  It is a beautiful paper pack and the page I chose is my favorite.   I did punch butterflies from a different sheet for my embellishments.  I am not sure if that is cheating (to use extra) but I think the goal is to get as much as you can out of one piece.

And here are close-ups of each card:

You need to offset the negative space on some cards. On some above, I did some random stamping in the background. On these cards I used embossing folders for the background:

This card is one of my favorites – and it was actually an “extra”.  I didn’t like the size of one of my pieces when I was designing one of the above cards so I cut a strip off of the side and therefore had this piece leftover.  I knew the backgroud had to be impressive to offset such a small strip of paper so I randomly stamped butterflies on the black layer with VersaMark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I also heat embossed the sentiment.  Its really very pretty in person.

And I had this leftover – a 3″ piece only 3/8″ wide! I wouldn’t have had that left over but I decided to cut a rectangle into 3 strips for 3 long rectangle panels (the 6th card from the top), and to make the rectangles fit the width of the card, I had this lone little piece leftover.

I don’t care about using current product for my pieces.  I keep what I like and I use what I like, new or old.   Part of my goal with the #100dayproject is to “use what I have” and in this case, I helped my crafty friend get rid of some of her old discontinued product.

All of the products I used may not still be available but these cards are so universal, you can substitute any greetings or embossing folders or even coordinating colors (or any patterned paper for that matter).  I used some old discontinued Stampin Up ribbons in discontinued colors that coordinated perfectly with this patterned paper even though they were not listed as coordinating colors on the package.  So you can use the new current colors for 2019 or use up some old stuff.

I hope you enjoyed my cards and that I inspired you to try your own “one sheet wonder”.  If I did, I would love to see what you create.  If you liked my project, give me a like or share this with a friend who might like it.  Please let me know if you have any questions about products or procedures I used today.  Thanks for spending some time with me today and I hope to see you again soon.  If you haven’t already done so, follow me on WordPress or sign up for email notification.

Til next time, happy crafting,

Jeanette