Pick-a-Petal Birthday

 

Don’t you love it when your kids ask you to make a birthday card at the last minute? The morning of the party!!!

This was one of those times.

So I asked the usual question, what does your friend like. The answer that came back was not much help. “She likes Black!”

Well anyone who knows me, knows that black is not one of the colours I am comfortable with. So I asked if there was any other colour she liked?? The answer “I don’t know”. Well that was a lot of help. It’s really hard to know with teenagers. My youngest has decided after all these years of being a pink fanatic that she doesn’t like pink any more. (Well she will just have to live with the pink bedroom for a while yet!!).

So this is the card I came up with.

My heart felt a lot easier when I pulled up to their house an hour later and there were black balloons on the fence and YES pink balloons as well. Phew!!

I embossed the black petals with black embossing powder and coloured in the petals with a pixie pink stampin write marker. I also embossed the happy birthday to you single stamp from the new mini in black. Stuck on a bit of black gros-grain ribbon and a button (not Stampin’ Up!I really wanted a shiny button to go with the embossing). And Voila a quick and pretty birthday card.

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Baroque Motifs Princess

Well aren’t those winter colds frustrating! I have never had one that has kept coming back like this one has. It’s been 8 weeks now and I hope I’ve seen the last of it.

Here is a scrapbook page I did a little while ago. I took it with me when I went to convention in May and haven’t had a chance to blog about it since.

One of the themes in my presentation was about maximising the stamp sets you have and I just think that Baroque motifs is one of those versatile stamp sets that can be used for so many different things. On this page I have used it as the rose vine around Sleeping Beauty’s castle. The castle was hand drawn and cut out of chocolate chip card and the roses were made sparkly with supa nova fine pink glitter. That was a very messy process.

I did have some help with this page. Yvette, my oldest daughter, and quite an artist, drew the detail on the castle and she did a really wonderful job. I just think the page is missing something, but didn’t know how to put on a heading and some journalling. I’m still thinking about that. Any suggestions?

This Sleeping Beauty is my youngest Chantelle. I loved it when she was asleep . Now that she is a teenager her sleep patterns have reverted to those of when she was a baby. She seems to sleep all day and is awake half the night!!

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