Birthday Card 2022 for Diana

I made a birthday card for my very dear friend Diana.

She's a retired landscaper; loves being in the garden & outdoors; 

and her favorite color is purple!

What better paper collection to choose for her card than the

Maja Design collection Enjoying Outdoors! 

I decorated the front of this 6x6 card with a homemade shaker, gorgeous dragonflies, flat back pearls, flowers and ribbon. 

The shaker is made from layers of die cut chipboard, acetate, 

foam adhesive & of course a sequin mix.

ReneaBouquets dragonflies are stunning and make this shaker totally awesome!

To hide the layers of the shaker, I used coordinating lime green and 

deep eggplant-purple ribbons.  

Then chartreuse moss & pretty flowers added below the shaker 

help hide the ribbon knot.

I made a collage inside of the card using cut outs from the paper collection.  

A personal sentiment is die cut and adhered to a darker solid paper 

and a few sequin pieces from the shaker mix help decorate it.

 

Thanks for viewing and as always,

stay safe, healthy & happy!

Lisa >^..^<

Products used:

Maja Design - Enjoying Outdoors collection:

Singing in the Rain

Garden Moments

ReneaBouquets:

"Enchanted" tiny treasure Dragonflies

Wild Orchid Crafts:

MINI purple mix Gardenia

MINI purple mix Sweetheart Blossoms

10mm lime green Open Roses

Catherine Pooler Designs:

"Springfield" Sequin Mix

Scrapbook.com Dies:

Nested Ovals

Cheery Lynn Designs (Maker's Movement) dies:

Horizon - Square

Embellishments:

Hobby Lobby & Michael's- 

  Ribbons - Lime Green & Eggplant Purple 

  MicroBeads - Pesto & Grape

  Adhesive Flat Pearls - Light Lavender

  Iridescent Adhesive Rhinestones - Magenta

Lawn Fawn - Acetate

Tools:

Big Shot Machine

Sizzix Magnetic Platform

Tim Holtz Distresser Tool

Fiskars 12" SureCut Deluxe Paper Trimmer

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Inks:

ColorBox Pigment Ink - Raisin

Tsukineko VersaMagic Chalk Ink - Perfect Plumeria

Tsukineko Memento Dye Ink - Sweet Plum

Adhesives:

Nuvo Craft Glue

Scor-Tape

Scrapbook.com Foam Adhesive Sheets

Escape

This is one of my most favorite photos of my beautiful daughter Brianne, 

taken by her husband, John, in October 2018.  

After rummaging through so many papers, 

I was able to find the absolute perfect page to use with this photo in the 
Blue Fern Studios' Happy Accident2 collection.

It has teal & blue tones as well as a grungy sort of feel to it.

I shaded the area around where the photo would be placed
with a retired Lindy's Gang Starburst color "Maidenhair Fern Green."

Before starting my layout, I had to first order The Dusty Attic's Party Lights chipboard because it's 100% perfect with this photo!

So I placed an order with many other items too - hee hee.

I heat embossed it in Blue Fern Studios' color "Wheat",
 which has a sparkle of gold in it.

I used a gold marker to color in the 'string' that holds the lights.

The other beautiful Dusty Attic chipboard I bought in my order 
ramped up this layout to be more feminine.

I heat embossed it to match the party lights.

Who doesn't remember those fabulous Prima flowers 
that you can adjust because of the wired petals?

Well, I have them in every color and this teal rocks on this layout!

I created a couple of flower arrangements with these gorgeous beauties and also added some Wild Orchid Crafts green roses & some 49 and Market seed pods.

Here you can see the title of this layout "Escape" that is a Dusty Attic "Tickets".

Inked in Tim Holtz Distress color "Rusty Hinge" makes this piece look like leather.

Now, for up close photos of ReneaBouquets' stunning butterflies 
"Mint Chocolate Chip". 

WOW!

They are so perfect for my layout!

I used a new sequin mix by Catherine Pooler named "Cincinnati" 
and man oh man it's gorgeous!

I also stenciled "Window Screen" using 
the Tim Holtz Distress Ink color Rusty Hinge. 

Now look at this GORGEOUS sequin mix in full!
LUSCIOUS!!

I had a lot of fun creating this one!

When you have the right photo/right 'subject' you can feel
 good about anything that you create!

This one is going on a wall in my home. 

Thanks for looking at Brianne's layout. 

Stay safe, healthy and happy.

Lisa : )

Products used:

Blue Fern Studios 

"Faux"

"Wheat"

TCW 6x6 Stencil

Window Screen

The Dusty Attic - chipboards

Party Lights #1

Lacey Trims #2

ReneaBouquets - butterflies

Mint Chocolate Chip Butterfly Set

Catherine Pooler Designs - Sequin Mix

"Cincinnati"

Flowers

Prima - Teal Bundle Flowers

Wild Orchid Crafts - 25mm Tea Roses (Green)

Tattered Lace Die

Paradise Ferns

Tools

Sizzix - Big Shot

Sizzix - Magnetic Platform

Ranger-Tim Holtz Blending Tool

Paper Studio  - Heat Embossing Tool

Tsukineko - VersaMark Stamp Pad

Tsukineko - VersaMarker Pen

Media

Ranger-Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Rusty Hinge

American Crafts Metallic Marker - Gold

Mark Richards' Mosaic Sticker Tiles
Lindy's Gang - Maidenhair Fern Green (retired)

Adhesives

NUVO Deluxe Adhesive

Beacon 3-in-1 Glue

Scrapbook.com Foam Adhesive Sheets

Liquitex Professional Matte Gel