A Bold Happy Birthday

Hope you all have enjoyed a wonderful weekend! I know we have had beautiful weather here so it's been good. Worked out in the gardens yesterday and think I pulled a muscle in my back so no more working in the garden for a few days.
But I can still make cards so I whipped up this card for my husbands birthday in August. We will be camping during his birthday so I knew I would have to make it in advance and not wait till the day before.
Here it is:

I used sketch #20 from Seize the Birthday.

I am also entering it in the ColorQ Challenge #196 The colors are Real Red, More Mustard, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake + White

For the first time I made a window for my focal image. It was pretty easy and I love the look. 

The lighthouse stamp is from Inkadinkado stamped on white cardstock with VersaMark Watermark ink and embossed with Black Sparkle embossing powder. I hope you can see the sparkle in the photo. I inked the circle with Faded Jeans, Broken China and Tumbled Glass Distress ink.

I used the deep yellow cardstock for the sentiment, which is from Hero Arts, so the anchor and the sentiment would stand out more.

The anchor stamp and die are from Verve's Strong Anchor die and stamp set. I stamped with VersaMark Watermark ink and silver embossing powder. I punched a hole in the top to thread baker's twine from the Twinery and wrapped it around the anchor.
Thanks for taking a peek at my card and hope you have a wonderful week.
Teresa

Friend, Celebrate Today!

Hello! 

It's the end of the weekend a brand new week is just ahead and I have a new card to share today. For this card I used this sketch from Seize The Birthday

This is my first time over at Seize the Birthday so if it's new to you too go over and check it out.
Now here is my card:

 After I finished the background I made the tag. I have a ton of these foam hearts in pinks, red and white. I grabbed the smallest white heart that was glittered and inked the edges with Fired Brick distress ink and  also the edges of the tag. I added the red gemstone to the heart and there was a small red banner scrap laying on my desk that I incorporated into the card by inking the edges with Black Soot distress ink and stamping "friend " in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. I also stamped the sentiment, Celebrate Today in black onto the label and tied on the ribbon to finish the tag. I adhered the tag to the card with pop up dots.

 Here is a close up of the heart. It has a nice sparkle to it.

 

Just before I took these photos I decided to add three clear gemstones to the flowers on the pattern paper but changed them out for pearls which I think looks better.

 Here you can see the dimension of the tag and pearls.

I think I will also enter this in the tag challenge over at A Blog Named Hero where you need to use a tag on your card or project.
Thanks for the visit and I hope you come back soon!

Teresa