50th Anniversary

I recently posted on the Paper Temptress Community Blog two cards.  So far I showed you the graduation card in this POST, so now I have for you the 50th anniversary card that I made.  I combined a couple challenges for this card.  The layout is the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #193 and the card was inspired by the Moxie Fab World Trigger Tuesday: Classically Modern image.  The layout had the diagonal cut background that I thought paired well with the print in the inspiration photo where is switches from blue on white to white on blue.  So that is how my background came to be.  I basically took a square of Iridescent Cryogen White (gotta have that sparkle!), cut it diagonally into quarters, and embossed each piece with the textile embossing folder.  Then I took a sponge inked with Baja Breeze and gently rubbed it over the positive (bumpy) side of two of the pieces to give me the blue on white and then over the negative (side with depressions) side of the other two pieces to give me the white on blue.  Kind of subtle, but I think pretty cool.  My blue isn't the beautiful bright blue in the inspiration photo, but I didn't have brighter blue color in the amazing Glimmer cardstock from Paper Temptress that I wanted to use.

The "50" was heat embossed with silver embossing powder and mounted on a piece of

Juniper Berry Glimmer cardstock.  Such a beautiful shimmer to this paper...you can see it better in the detail shot.  After I added the ribbon and the swirly border of the Glimmer cardstock, it still needed something.  So I went back to the inspiration photo and loved the radiating spikes from the center of the silver wall decoration.  Couldn't figure out how to make spikes, so I added some rhinestones around my "50" to give that radiating effect.  Well at least that is how it played out in my head!

Well I guess that is all for me.  Thanks for checking out my kind of engineering!

The Engineering Details

Stamps - None; Paper - Gray Basis 80#, Juniper Berry Glimmer, Iridescent Cryogen White (Paper Temptress); Ink - Baja Breeze; Accessories - Chipboard Numbers (My Best Occasion), Clear Rhinestones (Darice), White Satin Ribbon (Offray), Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder (Provo), Labels 14 Die (Spellbinders), Apron Border Die (The Cat's Pajamas), silver embossing powder (SU!), dimensionals, heat gun, sponge

Dancing into the Weekend

I am going to totally admit that if anyone were to watch my house through the windows, they would totally see some dancing. Dancing of all kinds...ballet, head-banging, or simple just gettin' down...and I am sure it is not done well! If I am alone and cleaning and have the music nice and loud, you may see even more dancing. Even my kids will dance...we have little dance parties sometimes. Pretty darn funny! So this little ballerina fairy, Marissa, just spoke to me and yeah, I like to "Dance as if no one is watching".

So this is my first Makeup 4 the Weekend Challenge #33 (from here on out this will be shown as M4TW because that is a lot to type!) and I love the idea that it is a different type of challenge every week. While I am partial to sketch challenges, it is fun to play with other challenges too. I am usually a one challenge per card type of gal, but I went CRAZY with this card and made if for not 1...not 2...but 3 challenges! Yup, got a little crazy, but I think it worked out. So the M4TW Challenge was to make a window card...this is where my people walking by my house seeing me dancing through the windows discussion came from...so I chose to put my ballerina on the inside with a square window to see her from the front of the card. I almost did actual window panes, but I was afraid it would cover her up too much. I used Jen Del Muro's Sketch For You To Try from last Saturday...can't go without a sketch right?!

My color scheme came from the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger Pleasing Palette inspiration picture. I loved the cup in the picture as well (shown below) and the Turquoise color was just so bold. So those are the primary things that I put into my card. Then I used some pinks and greens to accent with. The orange stripes were made by crumbling the more solid orange paper from the Green at Heart Basic Grey collection, flattening it out some, rubbing it with Whisper White craft ink (to get the ridges of the crumbling), and then embossing with white embossing powder. I love the way it looks...not sure it really fits with the card though, but I was going with the inspiration picture! The fairy was colored with a blender pen and ink pads.

So now, I encourage you to check-out all of the samples for the M4TW Challenge #33 and get creating! Once you are done link it up to the Paper Makeup Stamps Blog so that we can all see your amazing work! Thanks for checking out my kind of engineering!

The Engineering Details

Stamps - Marissa Fairy (PMS), Beautiful You (Verve); Paper - Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Whisper White (SU!), Green at Heart Collection (Basic Grey); Ink - Black Staz-On, Tempting Turquoise, Really Rust, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Mellow Moss, Blush Blossom (SU!); Accessories - Blender Pen, white embossing powder, heat gun, pink pearl stickers (Oriental Trading), white satin ribbon (Offray), Scallop Border Punch (SU!)