Belated Birthday Wishes

Although his card (hopefully) arrived in the mail on time, we missed our nephew’s 51st birthday while we were away. I fully intended to write this blog post so it would go up on the appointed day, but I basically took a holiday from the internet while we were visiting with Sarah and her family. 

I started with a vague idea of what kind of card I wanted to create. Interestingly, it came together quickly, but is quite different from my first vision of it but perhaps better than the first idea!

I started out with a piece of Smoky Shadow cardstock from Papertrey Ink and some scraps of metallic cardstock from my files. Three of the Stitched Star Stax from My Favorite Things worked perfectly together. I laid the two largest stars together and bumped up the smallest one with some dimensional tape.

The sentiment from Altenew’s Sentiment Strips was embossed with rose gold embossing powder and die cut with MFT’s Itty Bitty Strips.  I cut down the main panel and added dimension to it before adding to the card base. 

I’m adding this to two current challenges. It’s a CAS card so it’s off to AAA Birthday: Anything Goes as well as to Double D who is celebrating their 7th birthday this round. Double D has a wonderful mood board, but I’m counting on “Anything Goes” to mean it doesn’t have to directly link back to the mood board.

We had a great trip to Wisconsin–a perfect mixture of stay home, read, and play games; do fun things (like a puppet show in Milwaukee); and a chance to be with Sarah and Adam’s friends both for New Year’s Eve and an open house early the next week. I’m glad to be home, but there’s a LONG list of projects sitting in front of me for the next few months.