We celebrated our oldest son's birthday last night, but because of the weather, we decided to postpone our traditional family birthday dinner out with everyone to tonight. So, before we dash out, I wanted to share this card I created to celebrate the blessing of birthdays...
I was inspired by the following card sketch for challenge #32 over at My Mind's Eye:
I started with a 6x6 sheet of My Mind's Eye patterned paper from the Lost and Found Portobello Road collection and layered a piece of text paper from the same collection that I stitched and inked along the border on top of the background paper.
Next, I cut out the "celebrate" and label images from a couple of sheets in the same collection as part of the sentiment and layered them on top of a ribbon and trim border. I took the liberty of using three Prima flowers rather than the two in the sketch and embellished the flowers and the corner of the card with pearls from Recollections to complete it.
We are looking foward to a wonderful dinner with our family tonight, and I hope you have the blessing of enjoying one another's company with your families as well!
Such a beautiful Card, Love those papers and how you have layered them.
Carol xx
Posted by: Carol | February 09, 2012 at 12:21 AM
Beautiful ... I adore these papers too ... your card is so lovely
Posted by: Ros Crawford | February 09, 2012 at 02:50 AM
very pretty, love how you did the sentiment and great work with the sketch!
Posted by: conniecrafter | February 09, 2012 at 07:09 AM
Very pretty card - that paper line is so great!
Posted by: Jody Rogers | February 09, 2012 at 07:19 AM
Lovely, soft colors and elegant addition of the pearls. Beautiful card!
Posted by: Kerry A | February 09, 2012 at 07:56 AM
This is really beautiful, Christine!! Love all the gorgeous accents you've used!!
Posted by: Lea Lawson | February 10, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Very pretty layout design!!!
Posted by: STC Technologies | April 01, 2012 at 10:34 PM
It's a beautiful card and now that I have a room that I can go from http://roomstogrowusa.web12.hubspot.com/hobbyrooom to I hope to be making cards just as half as beautiful as yours.
Posted by: Lil | May 04, 2012 at 12:38 PM