Part of me is having a hard time believing that my daughter is officially a *teenager* today!! Wow!! She is really growing up! The other part of me is SO excited!! I've mentioned here before what an AMAZING girl she is...and even within the past year we have grown so close. Even if I could have her "little" again...I wouldn't trade our relationship now for anything!
Because Ali's taste in colors and patters are *quite* a bit different than mine, I just knew that I would need some help creating her card! Well, Charmaine to the rescue!! :-) She has created the sketch for this week's Weekend Sketch Challenge! With the fun sketch already to go...I then just picked out some of the brightest and funkiest papers I could find!
I know...bright, huh? :-) Well, I couldn't make a distressed and muted vintage card for her (as much as I wanted to)! LOL Actually, I have to admit that I really liked how it turned out! :-) I stamped the cupcakes (from the Maya Road Cupcakes set) onto Neenah White c.s., colored them with my Copics, and then cut them out. I layered them onto a white piece of c.s. that I cut/embossed with my Curvy Rectangles Nestabilities, added a little bit of sparkle with my Sakura Stardust pen, and then coated the tops with Crystal Effects (see close-up picture below). The chipboard "13" is made from some numbers I found in my stash (I just covered them with some coordinating patterned paper). That way cool brad thing at the bottom is from Chatterbox's new Easy Brad Maker! I actually was able to see this at CHA and knew right away I had to get my hands on it! They had such beautiful samples there displayed...and some even had small photographs in them...LOVE it!!!
As usual, you won't want to miss the creative eye-candy that Beate, Cambria, Charmaine,Jenn, Lori, Mary Jo, & Sharon have created!
I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!! ~Laurie
Recipe Stamps: Maya Road Cupcake set, Mega Mixed Messages (PTI) Paper: Neenah White, Dark Chocolate, Patterned paper by Pebbles Inc. Ink: Chocolate Chip craft ink Other: Clear detail e.p., Nestabilities, Chatterbox Easy Brad Maker, Crystal Effects, Sakura glitter pen, Paper piercer, Twine, Scallop border punch, Heart rhinestones, Ric-Rac
