21st Birthday Celebrations

 

This is my final week as a Guest Designer at Krafty Chicks this month. What an honour it has been to join in the fun at the hen house. 

Week 4 of the monthly challenge schedule is All Occasions. This can be a specific holiday like Easter, St Patrick's day, Valentine's day or in my case a special birthday.

 I was asked to make a special card for a 21st Birthday. The brief was girly and cocktails so I think I ticked those boxes. I do love making cards in general but it is always an honour and so satisfying to make with a specific person in mind with things that are so personal to them.

The base of the card is in the brightest of pinks. The purple paper is a handmade paper I got from a craft shop in Stratford Upon Avon a million years ago. It has silver metallic threads running through it and the raised dots are like silver brads. It was sold as a sheet of wrapping paper but it is way too posh to waste on wrapping a gift!

I used two of my most used dies on this card. The shaker element is a die from Crafter's Companion. The weird thing is that I never specifically bought it as it was in one of those sale goodie bags so you don't know what you will receive. I have used it so much and for so many different occasions so I am really glad I was lucky to get that one. I used some acetate for the window and filled it with seed and bugle beads in colours to match my main design. I have found one of the best ways to make a shaker card is with sheets of childrens craft foam which is easy to die cut. This gives the necessary depth for the shaker part without the fiddly cutting of foam pads to fit your shape.

The second die is my scalloped edge square die from Nellie Snellen. It is just the right size to make a decorative sentiment panel. I simply type my sentiment on the computer in a box and then cut when printed.

I added some glittery foam number stickers and a square gem to finish the bottle. As a final touch I added a cocktail sticker I must have had for about 20 years. I remember buying a mixed packs of Stickopotamus stickers from Ebay and it was amongst them. 

I have been making crafting and making cards for years and have amassed a lot of supplies on that time. I follow the Totally Tiffany 4 section system way of organising my craft room. All my crafty supplies like stickers, papers and embellishments are grouped together by theme so if I want to create with alcohol for instance they are all bagged up together, all balloons together, all sport etc. It takes a long time to get your stuff together like that but saves me so much time as I can pretty much go straight to whatever I need. As long as you are disciplined in putting things back you never get yourself into a mess. I have been doing it for over 7 years now and it is fair to say it has revolutionised the way I organise and more importantly has kept me organised. I also catalogue all my dies, punches, stamps and embossing folders in Evernote. This has been an absolute game changer as you can file things away but easily find them. 

I do hope you will join me and the team in the Hen House at Krafty Chicks.

Card Details -

Size - 6” x 6”

Dies - Square Die MFD006 (Nellie Snellen), Prosecco Celebration (Crafter’s Companion)

Paper - Handmade paper with silver threads and dots.

Embellishments - Seed & Bugle Beads, Stickopotamus Sticker, Glitter Foam number stickers, square gem.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 613 Avenue Create - #202211 Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - #112022 Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge - #11 Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - #243 Anything Goes
• Digi Choosday - #46 Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Birthday - Anything Birthday Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge - Anything Goes with a die/diecut
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes
• Love To Craft - #71 Anything Goes
• Love To Scrap - #158 Anything Goes
• Mix It Up Challenge - #62 Anything Goes / Die Cutting
• Papercraft Challenges - #88 Polka Dots
• Penny’s Challenge - #535 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #47 Anything Goes
• Sparkles Monthly Challenges - #158 Dies or Punches
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes