Shine Your Light Birthday

Hello! I hope everyone is well and enjoying some good Spring weather! Today I have a birthday card to share for someone who has touched me lately with his support to others, so I tried to make his birthday card also a subtle tribute to his caring about others. 

The hand-stamped sentiment is an old Autumn Leaves stamp, but the hand-stamped lighthouse and the anchor and birds stencils are Stamplorations. I used a beautiful blue SU card stock for my card base and matting along with white Springhill Digital card stock. 

The sentiment and its mat were cut with Spellbinders Circle Nestie dies. I used Versafine Clair inks for the stamping. I stenciled the birds with Hickory Smoke Distress ink and the anchors with Seascape Palette Hybrid ink. I got a little artsy here with those anchors, using them abstractly for the sky and sea. 

I used this SplitCoastStampers sketch SC49 resized to 5x7" in PSE. It had a nice place for the lighthouse and is a good sketch for CAS, which is the style I was going for.

On the inside of my card, I've matted it with papers from Webster's Pages 6x6 Yacht Club designer paper pad. I've also hand-stamped some sentiments using Versafine Clair ink -- a Red Rubber Designs sentiment on the left and on the right sentiments by Hot Off The Press and Clear Dollar Stamps.

I took the two vertical strips I cut from the inside papers and pieced them together to mat the back of the card, adding my hand-stamped Lawn Fawn siggie.

And a final view. I appreciate you stopping by and hope your day goes your way! Don't forget to shine your light! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   SplitCoastStampers Sketch SC49

2.   Outlawz Festive Fridays 4/30-5/13: Anything Goes theme

3.   Stamplorations May Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge: Stamps + Wings -- #1/3 Used Lighthouse stamp and Some Birds stencil for wings

4.   Stamplorations May CAS Challenge: Anything CAS Goes Only -- #2/3 Option not played this time  

5.   Stamplorations May Stencil Challenge: Anything Goes with a Stencil -- #1/3 Used Some Birds and Anchors Away stencils

6.   Stamplorations Never-Ending Anything Goes Challenge -- I used all Stamplorations products on card front except for the sentiment (Lighthouse stamp and Some Birds and Anchors Away stencils)

7.   Happy Little Stampers May Stencil Challenge: AG

8.   Cardz 4 Guyz #270: Monochromatic

9.   AAA Birthday Game #25: 2nd Birthday Any Birthday Card Goes -- 

10.  Allsorts Challenge Week #622: Create a Landscape or Scene -- #1/3  

11.  Pearly Sparkles Challenge #62: Clean and Simple

12.  StarStampz Challenge #22: Choice of Monochrome, Pink/Brown or Black/White/Blue -- #1/3  I used Black/White/Blue and a Monchrome color scheme.

13.  The Male Room #150: Water/Beach  

14.  Crafty Calendar May Challenge: Masculine -- #1/3

15.  PINspirational Challenge #277 May -- #1/5  I was inspired by the photo's clean structural  lines/shapes and I focussed on the black, white, blue, gray colors; also, my card's secondary message after birthday is shining a light and the luminating glow in the photo remind me of this.  

16.  Creatalicious Challenge #210: AG + Opt. Things with Wings -- #1/3 Option played - stenciled birds