It's hard to believe that January is nearly over already. I'm so happy that the daylight is getting longer each day now.
Our oldest daughter has a birthday coming up, so I created a card for her inspired by the SOUS January 16 Card Sketch. She loved the vintage anniversary card that I created for my husband last summer, so I dug out my BoBunny Weekend Market paper. This is one of my all time favorite collections by BoBunny!! One of the SOUS challenges was to use scraps on your card, so other than my card base and a couple pieces of NoteWorthy, all of my papers are scraps from previous projects, even the flowers.
"Live Life Beautifully"
Birthday Card
"Live Life Beautifully"
Inside View
Here is the gorgeous SOUS card sketch:
Tips and Techniques:
Vintage Finds ~ Grace loves keys and loves to write with fountain pens. This gorgeous skeleton key is from the Etsy Shop Zeus and Zoey and can be found here. The pen nib was a trinket I had found and saved in my treasure box. The vintage buttons were a gift from my husband's cousin, Debbie Clapper who gave me not one but two of her mom's old button tins. Oh what treasures lie in those tins!! Thanks Debbie!!
Sweet Open Roses ~ These were actually the roses I created when I photographed my step by step tutorial earlier this month using scraps of paper from my January ScrapThat! Kit. That tutorial can be found here.
Distressing ~ I so enjoy my Donna Salazar/Zutter Distrezz-It-All and use it on nearly every project I create!! It makes such quick work of my distressing and gives such cool thick ragged edges. I used it on the circle and all straight edges. I did pull out my Prima Distress tool for the rounded corners of my ticket.
Fussy Cutting ~ the ticket and sentiment piece were fussy cut from some scraps of Weekend Market paper.
Products Used:
Paper:
BoBunny Weekend Market "Tapestry" (Scrap)
BoBunny Weekend Market "Postage" (Scrap)
BoBunny Weekend Market "Cut Outs" (Scrap)
BoBunny "Powder Mountain" (Scrap)
BoBunny "Dark Denim Dot"
Embellishments:
Zeus and Zoey ~ Skeleton Key
BoBunny Weekend Market ~ Priceless Cardstock Stickers
Tim Holtz ~ Lavish Trimmings Ribbon
Stash - Vintage Buttons - Thanks Debbie Clapper!!
Stash ~ Vintage Pen Nib
Stash ~ Round Doily
I Am Roses ~ Foam Head White Stamen
Technique Products:
Donna Salazar/Spellbinders Rose Creation Dies
Liquitex Gesso
Distress Inks
Adhesives:
Scotch ATG
Helmar 450 Glue
Ranger Glossy Accents
Tools:
Donna Salazar/Zutter Distrezz-It-All
Prima Distress Tool
Ranger Craft Mat
Fiskars Craft Knife
Fiskars Self-Healing Mat
Sizzix Big Shot
Martha Stewart Mini Scoring Board
Round Nose Pliers
Heavy Duty Wire cutters
Hammer
I have also entered this project at:
Card Mania ~ Challenge #13 Color Combo (Feb 8)
Samuel Taylor's January Challenge ~ Distressing - Prize is 4 bottles of Distress Reinker (Feb 1)
Samuel Taylor's January Challenge ~ Distressing - Prize is 4 bottles of Distress Reinker (Feb 1)
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~ Blessings ~
