"Live Life Beautifully" Birthday Card for SOUS Sketch Challenge

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)

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments

~ Blessings ~

Birthday Card for BoBunny & Stuck On U Sketches

It's been a wonderful kind of busy around our home preparing for Christmas. It's so wonderful to reflect on the love of God sent to us in Christ. It's also a wonderful time of the year for us to gather and spend time as a family. I so look forward to that each year. 

Our sweet daughter, Rachel, (our son's wife) has a birthday coming up, and I created this card for her using BoBunny's Gabriel Collection for their December Card Challenge to use lace and ribbon on a card. 

I stopped by Stuck on U Sketches and just had to use their current card sketch. This is my first time to enter one of their challenges. They have some new card designers providing amazing inspiration so be sure to drop by their blog to be inspired. 

Here's Rachel's Birthday Card:

Using the gorgeous December 5 SOUS Card Sketch:

Tips and Techniques:

Lace ~ I used BoBunny's Gabrielle lace to create the strips across the card. I have found that for sheer lace like this, an acid free spray adhesive like Krylon works well. 

Inking ~ My favorite ink for aged/distressed edges continues to be Ranger Distress Ink. I inked around the medallion. 

Butterfly Trail ~ I used the pearl strand from BoBunny Gabriel to create the trail. I used Gabrielle Pollacco's suggestion of Tombo Multi Liquid adhesive to tack down portions of the pearls to hold them in place. 

Rub-On/Mulberry Paper ~ I wanted to use the rub-on birthday sentiment from the Gabrielle Card Kit, but thought the background was too busy to apply it directly to the card. I applied the sentiment to a scrap of mulberry paper. I then wet a q-tip and "painted" the water where I wanted the torn edges around the rub-on. While wet, it tore easily giving the wonderful feathered edges that mulberry paper does so beautifully. An old technique that still looks fresh today. I like that the mulberry paper is sheer and the background can still be seen without the sentiment getting lost. 

BoBunny Products:

Gabrielle Card Kit:

~ Card Base

~ Sentiment

~ Medallion

Gabrielle Lace

Gabrielle Pearl Strand

Gabrielle Chipboard Sticker Butterfly

Other Products:

Petaloo Flowers

Sheer ribbon from my stash

Dew Drops ~ Teal

Adhesives:

Krylon Spray Adhesive

Tombo Multi Liquid

Scotch ATG

Helmar 450

I've also entered this at:
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #58 ~ God will take care of you/anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by! I treasure your comments.

~ Blessings ~