February Anything Goes Love to Craft Challenge #55

 Good Monday morning! It's February! That means time for my Design Team sample at Love to Craft Challenge #55 which goes live today and lasts all this month. You can enter up to 5 projects as long as they are family-friendly and not all digital. Go have a look at what my teamies have made for your inspiration and join in the fun!

My sample make is a birthday card for a relative who loves classic beautiful things. I love the look on this woman's face, hahaha. It could also make a good snarky card with the right humor if you could ignore the beauty of it. I chose the Basic Grey Boxer designer papers because they went with the image well. Even though this is a busy look, the patterns blend together. I wanted to make it look delicate and beautiful, and I'm happy with the result, especially as I had to keep it flat for mailing.

   

I used this Split Coast Stampers sketch SC207 from years ago because the focal layer #3 fit my focal image almost perfectly and I had some delicate laces I wanted to use for the 4 strip elements of the sketch.

I used a gorgeous Gecko Galz image as my focal point and a My Favorite Things hand-stamped sentiment cut out of a white card stock scrap with a Lawn Fawn Everyday Banner die. For the sketch's four strip elements, I layered some of my mom's beatufiul pale pink lace over cream colored foam lace for each element. I popped up the focal image slightly after adhering it to a sturdy card stock backing. The BG Boxer paper is cut the full width of the 6x6" card base.

Detail touch: I was really lucky to find this Prima blossom in my flower stash. It matches the focal image so well. I place it in the corner where it looked like a natural extension of the vine in the image. I bradded the blossom with a rhinestone brad blank but placed a Viva Decor Pearl Pen dot in the blank as it matched the image's rose color well. Behind it I placed a very pale pink half paper flower fan I'd been saving forever. I believe it is Chatterbox but don't quote me. :-) 

   
For the inside of the card, I lined the right wide with another sheet of the BG Boxer paper and over that a piece of old skool typewriter paper on which I hand-stamped a Uniko birthday sentiment. For the back, another sheet of the BG Boxer with a scrap from the inside and a Hero Arts siggie cut using a Spellbinders label die.

And a final look. Thanks for visiting and have a great Monday! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers sketch SC207

2.   TFJB Challenge 1/20-2/2: So Delicate -- (10 challenges max)

3.   Outlawz Festive Fridays 1/22-2/4: Birthday theme

4.   Gecko Galz Feb. Customer Blog Challenge: Love Through the Ages -- I used Sept. 2020's freebie image. 

5.   Gecko Galz Facebook Feb. Challenge: Roses or Music -- Roses   

6.   TTCRD Week Beginning 1/26: AAG

7.   Creative Fingers #200: AAG

8.   Classic Design Challenge Feb. 2021 #2: AAG  

9.   Lil Patch of Crafty Friends C#150 6th Birthday Celebration: AAG

10. The Creative Crafters #36: AAG

11. Pearly Sparkles Challenge #59: AG