A Heartfelt Birthday Wish

Just popping in to bring you one more of Brandy's lovely creations.  This card was made as a birthday card for a family member- the right time to whip out the tools and create a layered series of goodness.

The anchor for this card is the Heartfelt Creations Vintage Floret.  She stamped the flowers onto colored paper using brown ink and cut the flowers out by hand!  The flowers were shaped much as shown in this video.  The ever so delicate light green swirl is from the Gift Ensemble die with a few die cut leaves thrown in for effect.

The sentiment was printed on the computer and cut using Spellbinders circle die- can you pick out the embossed edge?- so delicate.  The light blue framed circle was cut using Spellbinders Butterfly Circles.  The light blue ties in the background paper which has soft blue polka dots.  It's a little tough to see, but the background paper also has random rust colored brushes of color which ties the card colors together.  The pearl and gold gem swirls were picked out of the stash.  All background paper edges, there is one layer of patterned paper and a small edge of light blue paper layered over the white cardstock card, were roughed up with an edging tool.  Distress Ink was added to age the papers and create a finished edge.

Brandy and I have had a few opportunities to craft together lately.  It feels so good to create with a bff, its inspiring to see Brandy's creative work.  It challenges me.  We also get a fair bit of chit-chat time in too!  If you haven't spent some of your own bff time lately- let us encourage you to do so.  It makes our lives full of the things we celebrate!

I've linked this card up to the following challenges.  Come join the fun!

Inspiration Journal's Monthly Challenge: Birthday Celebrations

Creative Corner Challenges: Let it sparkle

Tuesday Throwdown: Challenge #156

Age is a work of art- Birthday Card Art

Ladies, Brandy has been at it again. She whipped up this stunning beauty a couple weeks back and it has taken me this long to not to forget to upload the photo and get it posted.

Brandy used her Heartfelt Creations Sun Kissed Fleur collection to make this beauty.  The base cardstock card was inked using a couple different blue Distress Inks.  The layered printed papers were distressed on their edges and inked as well.  Brandy stamped the sentiment on the paper and placed it to be enhanced with the curled edges of the top layer of patterned paper.  Ultimately, the color combo came from that top layer of paper, but she so distressed and Glimmer Glammed the top, it is now hard to see the colors.  Each flower was stamped in Versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder.  After cutting out each flower, the backside of the flowers was colored with some craft markers she had on hand (not her Copic markers).  The flowers were layered and glued together with green glitter in their centers.  The leaf flourish comes with the Sun Kissed Fleur gift box set.

What do you think?  She's done it again, hasn't she?  Now you know who the true genius in this group is.  This doesn't bother me in the least, because she's my bestie and I adore her creations.  I'm hoping she'll keep this creative streak up.  Go, Brandy, go.