Happy 50th Birthday Sister

Here is a wine bottle shaped card that I have made using an Arty Farty template.  The "air was a bit blue" at times as no matter how hard you try with a template you cannot get it 100% correct from one side to another so it was a case of taking bits off here and there.  That's where die shapes come in as they are 100% correct every time but with this card being A4 in height I dread to think how much a die like that would cost.

For the toppers, backing paper and sentiments I have used my Katy Sue Designs "The Wine Buffs" CD.  It took a while to pick what toppers I wanted but I got there in the end.
On the CD I found some "50" balloons so I printed them off and added some twine for the string.

I made myself a bottle tag by printing out a topper to use, die-cut a circle opening and then put it through a Crafter's Companion large dots embossing folder.

This card took me two days on-and-off to make.  I sneaked some "50" confetti that I used my "50" die from Joanna Sheen with some scraps of card and hey presto there is confetti everywhere that you don't have to pick up!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Get Creative - Anything goes with the option of the fair/carnival
Creative Craft Cottage - Anything goes
Creative Moments - Anything goes
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything goes
CD Sunday - Anything goes (toppers, sentiments and backing papers used from the CD)
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option of paper piecing
Crafter's Castle - Anything goes
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes
Penny's Paper Challenge - Anything goes

Have a Fabulous 50th Birthday

This is a card I made for a friends 50th birthday tomorrow.  I used a weekly freebie for watching the Debbi Moore Facebook Live every Thursday evening from 6.30pm.  I used the images and paper from a recent Art Deco freebie.  It was a gorgeous collection and hard to choose but in the end I went with the gold coloured images.

The card I made is a stepper card and I have used three images and a sentiment off the freebie download.  I then cut the numbers "5" and "0" our five times from scraps of the backing paper to make the "5)".  There were also some more scraps from the gold paper and silver card I used so I used a "50" confetti die and cut out quite a lot (well actually a lot) of confetti to fall out of the card when it is opened tomorrow - whoops what a mess!!

Talking of mess.  I decided to add highlights of glitter to parts of the card when I had finished it.  I was oh so careful to check I'd got all the leftover glitter.  Boy was I wrong.  Somehow or other some got behind the feather and when I stood up and moved the card towards the window to check whether I needed anymore glitter anywhere I had a fountain of glitter fall to the fall onto my mat.  What a mess.  Despite vacuuming the mat I can still see glitter on the mat and it seems to be in places throughout the house.  This is why I normally stick to glitter glue but as I have pots of glitter to use up I thought I would but what a mess!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Creatalicious - Anything goes with the option of I've got the blues
CD Sunday Plus - Anything goes (digital kit download)
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes
Crafty Friends - Happy birthday
Love to Craft - Anything goes
Love to Scrap - Anything goes
Crafter's Castle - Anything goes
Unicorn Challenge - Make it Feminine
CRAFT - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
Crafty Calendar - Feminine
My Time to Craft - Make it feminine
Through the Purple Haze - Anything goes with the option of a sketch
Crafty Catz - Anything goes with the option of dies/punches
613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the option to make a slider card