Birthday Wishes~~First Place Winner in Gina K Stamp TV Challenge~~

The challenge for this project was to create a card with a 1~2~3 Recipe. Therefore, the card had to have 1 of something, 2 of something and 3 of something. 

I have 1 bow embellished with 1 decorative brad, 2 sets of circles and 3 floral images. 

In order to coordinate the colours, I created my own patterned paper by stamping leaf branches with Momento Tuxedo Black on the Soft Suede card stock.

Just for fun, I really piled on the layers.

This card has 16 layers from card base to brad.

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Another Tri-fold using Bargello technique for the centre bird in order to coordinate DSP.

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The stamps, steel die and patterned papers used for this project are from Gina K Designs.

The scalloped punch is Martha Stewart. After constructing the base layers, I then stamped the scalloped circle frame with Versamark and heat embossed with black embossing powder. Stamped the butterfly and then die cut both those pieces with the Big Shot.

To embellish the butterfly I applied clear glitter with a Sakura Pen and petite pearls.

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CAS Challenge using only two colours. 

STAMPIN' Up "Always Artichoke" and "Crushed Curry".

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Thankful

"Paper Players 269 Challenge" ~Autumn Theme

For the leaves on this card I made my own "stamp pad" by mixing droplets of re-inkers in three colours on four layers of moist hand wipes.

Once the ink is dropped, it spreads on the wipes and the outer edges of the colours combine.

When leaf stamps were inked up, all three colours appeared on the stamped image.

The Cheery Lynn vines were die cut through the Big Shot. The fern like leaves are an MS punch.

The frame was created with oval thinlits dies also cut through the Big Shot.

Gina K DSP.

Three colours of thin raffia tied together create the bow.

All these elements combined created a very rustic, yet elegant texture for the theme of this project.

Card~In~A~Box

Although very time consuming, the "Card~In~A~Box" technique is really lots of fun once you choose a theme, colour scheme, DSP, and then run with it. 

This card folds completely flat and fits an A-2 envelope.

I have made this card with a floral theme, an Easter theme and a snowflake theme.

My Great Niece is going to love this Birthday card...( especially the googly eyes).