A Different Kind of Challenge

Today my 'baby' turns 16 ... a challenge on so many levels!  

She is a great girl, and in herself not that much of a challenge, I am so proud of the young lady she is growing into.  The challenging part comes from the age and all that it brings - social expectations, a relaxing of rules while still maintaining boundaries, learning to drive (though that will primarily be hubby's challenge lol), and just the support needed for 16 year olds these days - maintaining that balance between mother and friend.  

Here is the card I made for her.  I used some of her favourite products, firstly the rose image from Fifth Avenue Floral, she loves this stamp set, particularly the rose.  Her other favourite on the card is the new In-Colour Island Indigo, which I paired with Pool Party, lastly is glitter - what girl doesn't like glitter!!!  I used my new alphabet die to cut out the letters and numbers and embossed them into the extended bookmark with the square lattice die.  The "16" I cut out of adhesive sheet and applied super fine glitter, ideally I would have used the new Sticky Sheets as they would have held the glitter better, but sadly had none on hand!  I hope she likes it and has a wonderful 16th Birthday.

Happy Stamping

Friday Mashup #8

Well today is my last day of being a Guest Designer for The Friday Mashup, and I am a little sad.  But I will keep playing along with the challenges so keep checking back each week to see what I come up with.  Before I get onto that though just a quick update on Sharon, the amazing lady who has not only conquered breast cancer but made it her goal to conquer the highest point on the planet and climb to the top of Mt Everest ... she made it!!!  You can read her account of that last push here.  

Now onto this week's card challenge, you can join in by doing any one of the three options: 

1. Make a card using Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz and Pretty in Pink
2. Make a card using the sketch
3. Or mash it up and make a card using both the colour combo and the sketch

Again I have chosen to do the mashup of the challenges - Initially I looked at these colours and could not really picture them in my mind, so I took out my scrap card and lay them on the desk and just started to fiddle around with them.  I decided the base of the card should be the Night of Navy and then it was just a matter of fitting the colours to the sketch.  Wow what a sketch, there are a lot of elements on this one, and I was trying to work out what stamp would go nicely into the circle.  I think it was a combination of standing in front of my stamp sets and thinking that the Pear Pizzaz would be a great colour for leaves, and BAM I saw the 5th Avenue Floral and decided that the big rose was close enough to a circle to count. 

For the rose I stamped in Basic Black onto Pretty in Pink card stock, then when the ink was well dry I used the aqua painter with bleach and ran it around the edge of the petals which bleached the colour out of the card stock and gave it a nice accent.  I had tried this technique previously, but like many others it had slipped to the back of my mind until it was demonstrated again at Convention.  I think it really works for this card. 

Please pop over to The Friday Mashup to check out the other cards the Design Team have come up with to inspire you this week.  Check out the entries to the challenge too, and don't forget to leave a little comment to let the artists know what you think.

The great thing with the mashup is that you can pick and choose with the challenge, so don't be shy, give it a try and join in for some fun.

  

Happy Stamping