Disco Girlfriends @ 65

 Hello again! Today I'm sharing  a birthday card for a dear girlfriend who has a crazy sense of humor that matches mine perfectly. I decided to use this digi stamp Disco Friends from Jan's Digital Stamp Shop, because I know she'd get a hoot out of it. 

Because of the old neck and ankle (and also really long mail transit times in my area), I was afraid I'd miss the deadline to get it in the mail to her on time, so Honey delivered it yesterday in person to her at work. He enjoyed getting to visit a minute with her behind masks and yes, she loved it. Her favorite color is turquoise blue.

I went with Split Coast Stampers sketch SC53, resizing it to 6x6" and then "wonking" the 90-degree angles a bit to loosen it up. I also just had to add some flower layers with heart brads, and then a few 60's themed charms on some bakers twine wrapped in the card base side fold. Since it was being hand-delivered, a perfect chance to chunk things up a bit!

I colored these two Disco Friends with Promarkers and added gel penning to their glass lenses, lips and nails and earrings. 

I printed them out again on Avery Repositionable Label paper and fussy cut them to make masks which I applied over my colored images. Then I got out my Tombow markers and a Funky Fossils Retro Starburst stencil and stenciled a background for them.

The plastic vinyl flowers I used are very old and I think they came from Oriental Trading. I like how they add shine and are also pretty funky looking. The sentiment is a combination of the Age quote that is provided with this stamp set and printed out, and Quickutz number stamps and MFT birthday stamps. The card base is Springhill card stock and the blue mats are Bazzill textured card stock scraps I found in my stash drawer. The designer paper is Echo Park's Let's Party collection.

These charm were a last-minute addition as I just remembered I had them. I actually had two of the peace ones, both up side down. I tried to turn one around and broke the hinges on back of it, so I gave up and just used as is.

The inside sentiment of my card is also printed from the digi stamp set, as are the peace signs. I added a mat of the Echo Park paper and then peace signs colored with Promarkers and fussy cut.

On the back, I used more of the Echo Park paper on a Bazzill mat. This collection has a page filled with little replicas of the papers so I used the Hooray as a spot for my stamped siggie.

And a final view. I really hate that many of my girlfriends, including me, are going to turn 65 during this pandemic. What cheers me up is knowing there WILL be a makeup party whenever we can all feel safe enough to meet. Maybe even more than one! LOL Until then, sit and wait, be patient, stay safe. That way we can all make it to 66! I hope you all are safe, warm and well. Have a great rest of the week! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers sketch SC53

2.   Outlawz Saturday Paper a la Mode 1/2-1/15: AG

3.   Jan's Digi Stamps Challenge January: AG -- I used Jan's Disco Girlfriends  #1/5

4.   AAA Birthday Game #21: Stencil Background  

5.   Creative Sketchy Girls #55: Anything Is Allowed

6.   Passion for Markers #573: Birthdays -  I used Promarkers to color the girls and Tombow markers to stencil their background.

7.   A Place to Start Jan #1 2021: AG

8.   613 Avenue Create Jan #1 2021: AG

9.   Daisy Chain Challenge #48: Happy Birthday

10. I Love Promarkers #426: AG -- I used Promarkers to color the girls

11. CHNPPC January: AG with Patterned Paper -- I've used Echo Park Let's Party 6x6 collection

12. More Mixed Media January: AG + Opt. Blue -- Option played  

13. ABMTTC #131: AG  

14. ABMTTCX January: AAG  

15. Classic Design Challenge #1 Jan 20201: AAG