Thursday Throwback Card

 

Good Thursday Morning Ladies,

How can we be over halfway through November already?? It's madness how fast these months are flying by!  In my mind I just can't think about Christmas yet, I don't know why, we have spoken about it briefly with the family asking if there is anything that they particularly want or need, of course the answer is always no, which isn't helpful.  I did see this suggestion for Christmas gift buying, it's basically ''Something they Want, something they Need, something to Wear and something to Read.  Sophie and Lucy have been doing something similar for the past few years, their Categories are:  An Outfit, A Surprise, something funny, Something Yummy and something Custom made/personalised.  They keep everything a total secret too!  We are definitely cutting back this year, especially as the older they get the harder they get to buy for.  Do you Ladies have special ways of gifting or Special Traditions, I would love to hear them, it might just be the inspiration that one of us needs.

Today's card is a throwback to Our Karen's Birthday 4 years ago, it is made using a Tim Holtz background die so works for this week's challenge too, here is the card details........

Today I am sharing with you the Birthday card that I made for Karen, 

Sue and I were playing with making different backgrounds last week, some with Pixie Powders, some with Alcohol inks and stains, I can't remember which background I used in the end, I have a whole pile on my desk that didn't 'make the final cut' 

The die I used to create the cut out on the front of the card is a Tim Holtz background die called 'Mixed Media 2', I was surprised by the size of the die.  I will say that the first time I cut it I had it to close to the edge of the paper and the whole die cut piece falls out, so if you use it, remember to set it in from the edge of your paper, learn from my mistakes! Hahaha

I used some of the background to die cut the Happy Birthday, then mounted the card onto Navy card and then onto a white base card.

Now I will confess that I did make a card yesterday (well almost), I was having one of 'those' days (Mother Nature's Gift 'Day 1' and totally out of the blue, I was beginning to think that they might have stopped, but Oh NO!!)  

Anyway, I had made a similar version of this but using a gorgeous background paper in mixed dark greens and gold.  I had die cut everything, stuck it together but couldn't decide on the sentiment, so I tried one, stamped in versamark but turned out slightly wonky so I cleared every trace of powder, used my anti-static bag to make sure there was no residue ink etc, lined it up re stamped and added powder only to find that I had a shadow from the wonky  stamping, when I added powder and heat set it was so obvious it almost punched me in the face!!  So I threw it to one side and sulked off to find a substitute!! I am hoping to save it somehow another day! 

I hope that today's card inspires you.

I hope that Thursday brings you joy and happiness,

Sending my love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx