A Blue Birthday

Can you believe it, Christmas is over for another year.  All that anticipation, preparation, exccitement and now it is all finished.  I had lots of fun over the holidays, spending time with my parents, daughters, sons-in-law and of course my gorgeous grandchildren.  They got lots of fantastic gifts and had lots of fun playing with them and each other.  I trust that all of you had a wonderful Christmas.

Now it is back to reality and hopefully some more regular blogging.  I am preparing for my first classes of the year and looking forward to Sale-A-Bration.  Being  a demonstrator I have already seen the Sale-A-Bration catalogue and I think you are all going to be very happy with the gorgeous selection.

Here is a card I made using the sketch challenge at Stamping 411, however, it also fits the challenge at Sunny Challenges and Creations too.

I started with a base of Crumb Cake card stock.  The next layer is Baja Breeze card stock which I have stamped using two of the images from the Extreme Elements stamp set.  The largest image in Baja Breeze ink and the smaller image in Versamark ink.  I stamped the largest image from the Extreme Elements stamp set onto Whisper White card stock using Crumb Cake ink.  I stamped the “jeep” image from the Need for Speed stampset using Not Quite Navy ink over the top of the Crumb Cake image. 

I attached this panel to Not Quite Navy card stock and then to the stamped Baja Breeze card stock.  I wrapped the Blue Denim Jean Ribbon around this whole piece, tied a knot  and then attached it to the Crumb Cake base.  I stamped the greeting from the Sincere Salutations stampset onto Whisper White card stock using Not Quite Navy ink and punched it out with the Large Oval Punch and attached it to a Crumb Cake Scallop Oval.  The greeting is attached to the card front over the ribbon using dimensionals.

I always find it hard to get back to work if I take some time off, so this is card is very simple.   Of course, male cards are always harder for me to make.  I’d love to hear what you think.

Bye for now, Kris.