A Golden Birthday

Have you ever heard of a "Golden Birthday"?  I hadn't, but recently became aware of it when my granddaughter explained that she would be having her special day on the 12th--turning 12!  As she mentioned it MANY times, I got the hint (I'm only a little dense!) and knew just what I had to do to celebrate her once-in-a-lifetime occasion
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I built an entire card front out of gold papers, mounted on a base of Whisper White.  The first layer is the beautiful Gold Foil Sheets, on top of which I highlighted four beautiful gold Specialty Papers:  Fancy Foil Designer Vellum (the polka dots and the hearts) and Gold Soiree (the stripes and the leaves). 

In order for the vellum papers to show their full effects, I mounted them on a same-size piece of Whisper White card stock.  This gave me the coordinated gold/white look that I wanted, going well with the white accents in the Gold Soiree papers.

I cut a circle of gold using my Circle Framelits, and then ran it through the Big Shot using the numbers from the File Tabs Edgelits.  This was popped up, using Dimensionals, on another piece of Gold Foil Sheet underneath, and a string of Gold Sequins were hung below.

I finished up with a knot of Gold 5/8" Satin Ribbon and some Gold Sequins randomly placed.  Shiny?  You bet!  But pretty and sophisticated too.

Needless to say, my granddaughter LOVED it and said she'd keep it forever!  So I think I did good! 

And of course, a matching envelope, adding a piece of the vellum to the flap of my Whisper White envelope. 

What do you think?  Won't you leave me a comment and let me know?

All items can be purchased here.

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Gold Foil Sheets

$3.95

Gold Fancy Designer Vellum Foil

$10.95

Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper

$12.95

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$8.50

Whisper White Medium Envelopes

$6.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

$3.95

Gold 5/8" Satin Ribbon

$6.95

File Tabs Edgelits Die

$10.95

Circles Collection Framelits Die

$26.95

Gold Sequin Trim

$4.95

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you all a lovely Valentine's Day--I hope you are spending it with someone you LOVE!

Another mish-mash Valentine's Day card, using everything but the kitchen sink!  Popular at my February Card Club!

This one uses En Francais, stamped in Versamark, heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder, and trimmed with an edgelit along the right side.  It's then mounted on a piece of Basic Black cardstock.  The Real Red card base was embossed with the Sophisticated Stripes embossing folder and the Big Shot, and a 2" layer of the Fancy Foil Designer Vellum (with the gold hearts) was added.  Then came the layer with En Francais, and a few strips of Watercolor Wonder Designer Washi Tape helps hold the vellum in place.

"pssst..." from Happy Watercolor was embossed in gold, and was cut out with one of the Word Bubbles framelits, then popped up on Dimensionals.  "i {heart} you" is a design in the Label Thinlets Card Die, and is cut in Gold Foil Sheets with the Big Shot, then added to another Word Bubble.  A red heart was punched from Red Glimmer Paper and adhered with a Mini Glue Dot.

Finally some random gold sequins were pulled from the the Gold Sequin Trim and adhered with the Two-Way Glue Pen. 

i {heart} you!  Thanks for visiting!

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A Special Anniversary

Yesterday was the 5th wedding anniversary of my son, Matt, and his wonderful bride, Sarah.  I mentioned in an earlier post that Matt is currently stationed in Texas with the Air National Guard, becoming an intelligence analyst.  He has been gone four months already, and won't be home until Christmas.  So for a combined birthday/anniversary gift, I sent my daughter-in-law to Texas for the weekend (and I volunteered to take care of my two grandsons, ages nearly three and nearly one!--and that's another story!).

So of course I made a special card for them.  I had nothing in mind as I began to create, but was extremely pleased with the end results.  It just kinda happened!

I started by stamping the blooms and stems from Field Flowers on Whisper White, using Old Olive ink for the stems and Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie for the flowers.
Next I inked up En Francais with Versamark and stamped it over the flowers, embossing it with Clear Embossing Powder and my trust Heat Tool.  I finished by sponging the Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie ink, along with Crumb Cake all over the front, and then spritzed it with Smooch Spritz.

Love was die cut from the beautiful Gold Foil paper, using the Expressions Thinlets die and the Big Shot.

This front panel was layered onto a piece of the Gold Foil, then on Old Olive and finally onto the card base of Early Espresso.

Since this was an unusual-size card, I created my own, custom envelope using the Envelope Punch tool, which is super for this task.

All of these items can be ordered here: http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/priscillastamps/

Let's get creating!