Oh My Stars! It's Your Birthday

Hello! I have a birthday card to share today for a high school girlfriend who loves a vintage-y vibe as long as it's pretty (no grunge for her, no way). 

I went looking in my 6x6 paper pads and found what I needed in 2 designer paper collections: Crate Portrait and SEI Sunny Day. And always my Gecko Galz collage sheet images come to the rescue. The card base is some very old textured Chatterbox card stock and because I was too lazy to pull out my very heavy 12x12 card stock box that sits on the floor on furniture sliders, I just made my own blue-green (is it turquoise or aqua???) card stock mats by coloring up white card stock in two shades with my Promarkers.

Both of us being southern girls, she and I are old enough to remember our southern lady phrases, back when a good education meant you went either to SMU or Texas Women's University (which my mother attended her freshman year as TWU was the sister school of Texas A&M who did not admit women until 1971 (and I was forced to go a year there in 1975-76), and she had hopes of dating an Aggie or two, which she did, before transferring to get her degree at University of Arkansas). Apparently, back in the day, a good collage for a proper young southern woman was also a finishing school! heehee So, when I ran across A Gina Marie stamp set filled with these old southern girl phrases, I practically swooned and bought it right up! I am using the Gina Marie "Oh My Stars" stamp along with "It's Your Birthday" from a Happy Little Stampers set.

I cut a Spellbinders scalloped circle die out of a sheet of SEI two-toned foil butterflies, and on top of that I layered a Spellbinders lotus pendant die cut out of gold mirror card. On top of that I layered a gorgeous redhead collage sheet image and then around her I laid a fussy-cut round flower border (both from Gelcko Galz) that I ink-edged with a Promarker to help give it some dimension and definition. I used my old-skool scalloped deco scissors on the vertical and horizontal Crate paper strips and a  Promarker-colored sentiment mat cut with a Spellbinders scalloped square die. I adorned the focal circle with various Prima paper flowers that I layered and secured with brads. These brads were silver so I simply inked in Versamark and then heat-embossed with gold powder. They are special little brads that allow one to add a rhinestone, but I added rose gold Stickles to each one. The camera doesn't catch the twinkly shimmer, but it's definitely there between the brads, the lotus pendant and the foil-outlined SEI rosey coral paper base mat. I added some more to the sentiment stars with a Sakura metallic gold gel pen to finish.

The back of the card has more of the Crate papers and a stamped and circle-punched Hero Arts siggie. 

And a final view of the front. I believe my girl friend will be properly celebrated and I just love making pretty things! Thanks for visiting and stay well and warm. Have a great week ahead! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Cheerful Sketches December Sketch

2.   Outlawz Color Tuesdays 12/1-12/14: Pick 3 Colors  -- I went with the 2 blue/greens and 1 green. I have used a LOT of pink, but it's a much more rosey coral shade. Twist not played this time.

3.   Outlawz Festive Fridays 12/11-12/24: Birthdays and Flowers themes

4.   AAA Birthday Game #20: Twinkle  

5.  613 Avenue Create December: AG + Opt. Anything Vintage -- Option played!  #1/8

6.   The Library Challenge #74: Anthology -- I chose 3 books, two because of Stars in the titles, and the third one because Hayley Mills was a childhood favorite of mine starring in the film and because author Marty Stewart, although British, would have made an excellent American southern lady in her impeccable garden, manor AND manners.  (I suppose I could have also chosen Romeo and Juliet aka star-crossed lovers, but I'll quit while ahead ;-).  

  

 

7.   Classic Design Challenge #12: AAG   

8.   Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge #67: Anything Mixed Media Goes -- I've used paper, metals, inks, embossing powder, glitter glue, gel pen    #1/3

9.   Arty Divas #32: AG

10. Paperbabe #134: AG

11. ABMTTC #129: AAG  

12. ABMTTCX December: AAG  

13. GeckoGalz Facebook December Color Challenge: Background Colors -- I chose the pink, gold, green, blue-green.