Happy Birthday to Phillip!

I am on fire!  Well, not really, but I did getting quite a bit of crafting done this weekend. My husband's big 5-0 is on Thursday and in honor of  the event, I made this card.

There is a funny story here.  I made this card over the weekend and stored it away.  Yesterday morning my husband went into my card drawer looking for a card for my son's teacher and you guessed it - he gave her his birthday card.  I had scheduled this to post on his birthday but no matter now!  

This card was based on this week's Card Patterns Sketch 137.  I haven't played in this challenge for a while, and I really like this week's sketch so I figured I would go for it.  The paper combination came together a bit slowly.  Since this is a card for my husband I didn't want the paper to be too feminine, but I still wanted to use some color.  I ended up using Stampin' Up paper as the card base (and for a few of the elements), Canvas Corp's Black & Kraft Fresh Words Reverse as the mat, and then a small piece of my favorite My Mind's Eye Stella Rose to draw attention to the center of the card.  I am just loving my crinkly ribbon from My Craft Spot - it's here again in Cranberry.  All of the stamps you see are from Waltzingmouse, other than the sentiment - that's a Papertrey Ink stamp.  The flower is a spellbinders die that I saw recently on their blog and fell in love with.  It's an anemone flower and the set is awesome. I sprayed the entire flower with glimmer mist, added a quilled flower cut using Flower Shoppe to the center, and added some stickles to the edges to make it pop.  I love my flower and I was able to stop myself at just one keeping in mind that I am trying to keep the femininity toned down on this one.  This card is a bit different for me.  My color patterns tend to lean toward the matchy matchy and I like that I've mixed it up here.  And most importantly, I hope my husband likes it.  

Happy Birthday old man!

Recipe:

Paper:  Stampin' Up, Canvas Corp - Black & Kraft Fresh Words Reverse, My Mind's Eye - Stella & Rose

Cartridges:  Flower Shoppe

Spellbinders:  lacey circles, scallop circles, banners & anemone flowers

Ribbon:  Crinkly ribbon from The Craft Spot

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - faux circles, banners, Papertrey Ink - Happy Birthday

Other embellishments:  Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist & Stickles

Thanks for stopping by!!