Fitting Birthday

Another birthday card today. I wanted to break out my Webster's Pages - Trend Setters/Ladies and Gents   and loved this color combination. The papers are so beautiful that the layout of the card can be very simple and quick to create. Gotta love a quick card!

Stamps - Chic Boutique ( retiring at the end of the month)

Ink - early espresso, pear pizzaz

Paper - Webster's Pages - Trend Setters/Ladies and Gents, SU pear pizzaz, baja breeze, early espresso, very vanilla card stock

Accessoires - Beautiful Wings embosslit die, old olive button, Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch, dimensionals, beads

From Masculine to Uber Feminine - OCC Challenge

Yea! Flowers and ribbon, just what I wanted after focusing on boys cards. This weeks OCC challenge is a recipe challenge to use hand made flowers, ribbon and bling. It's as if they heard the plea from my last post:).

Recipe
Ribbon - I gathered baja breeze and very vanilla seam binding and combined it with Victoria crochet trim.
Bling - I used the pearl jewels on both the dress hem and in the centers of the flowers.
Hand Made Flowers - I quilled the flowers ( I know I need to find a new flower making technique). In order for the pink roses not to appear too flat, I sponged ink onto very vanilla card stock. If you are new to my blog and want to learn how to make these flowers, click here

Stamps - Chic Boutique ( Interior of card has "It seems only fitting to wish you a happy day" sentiment
Ink - basic black, rich razzleberry, always artichoke, crumb cake
Paper - Springtime Vintage DSP, very vanilla and baja breeze card stock
Accessories - very vanilla, baja breeze seam binding, Victoria crochet trim, pear jewels, dimensionals, quilling tool,  SB labels #4 dies

Chic Boutique Birthday

Interior

Megan had used my stamp set Chic Boutique for a school project and left it on my work surface. I have had this set in my drawer for a while and hadn't looked at it in some time. As I went to put it away the image of the dressing mannequin caught my eye. This layout came to mind and I immediately reached this paper from BG Curio. I have a special person in mind for this card and know it will be quite "fitting".

Stamp - Chic Boutique
Ink - early espresso, wild wasabi
Paper - BG Curio, early espresso and very vanilla card stock
Accessories - label and oval die, SU chalks, very vanilla and victoria lace ribbon, pearl jewels, ribbon rosettes.

PPA42 - Color Challenge

This week's PPA challenge is a bright and bold color challenge.  For this challenge, I tried my hand at quilling roses and am pleased with  how they turned out. Of course, I needed to add a little glitter to really make them sparkle. Earlier this year I made the mistake of ordering a stamp set in french but it has become a  welcome surprise. Now, I love adding an occasional french salutation to my cards as I did with this one. I will definitely be ordering more stamp sets in french. - perhaps spanish as well.

Paper - Pink Flamingo DSP, tempting turquoise, real red and whisper white card stock
Ink - basic black, real red, old olive and tempting turquoise
Stamps - Chic Boutique and Bons Moments
Accessories - real red polka dot ribbon, dimensionals, glue dots, sizzlets little leaves die, red and dazzling diamonds glitter.