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So Long Birthday Friends

This retiring suite isn't actually called Birthday Friends. It's just that "So Long Birthday Memories" makes it sound like I'm losing my memories - I'm pretty sure I'm not.

So this is called a Slider Card.

Well, I call it a slider card.  On Splitcoaststampers it is called a Surprise Pop Up Card. That is where I took my refresher course to make this card. (I'm pretty sure that that I first made it sometime in the last century after taking apart, studying and measuring a card I had received from the wonderfully creative stamper, Linda Pagel.) Anyway, when you pull on the red ribbon... this happens:

This is from the Birthday Memories Suite which is retiring next month. I was surprised that it was retiring after only one year. It is so cute and kind of "vintagey". Is that even a word??? Anyway, while I would love to take credit for coloring this happy fox, I actually cut him from the Birthday Memories papers which has many images that coordinate with the dies.

Here are some images (from the Birthday Delivery stamp set) that I actually colored - on watercolor paper.

The girl, flowers, poodle and baker guy aren't really a part of this card, its just the picture I have left of a card that has long since been part of a card avalanche for a 95th birthday.

Well, I'm back to work at the day job today. My goal is to be back tomorrow with So Many Shells...

 

 

 

Hello from Arizona!

We've been down in Green Valley, AZ where we celebrated my dad's 80th birthday yesterday. Well, we've actually been celebrating since we arrived last Friday and enjoying beautiful weather.  Anyway, I thought maybe you would like to see the card I made.  After checking out several candle cards online I decided to try my own version:

• I planned the card to use all of the 12 patterns/colors from Foil Frenzy Specialty DSP  (144125) for the candles cutting them 3/8" wide which gave me 4 candles per 12" long strip. 
• The 80 candles cover 2 sheets of Soft Sky (131203) each cut 11" x 4.25" and scored at 5.5": 8 sections with 10 candles each.
• The sections were attached end to end with tape on the back though you may need to reinforce this. It is a long card and the weight may pull the sections apart.
• I used a retired 12 x 12" brown/craft sheet cut to 4 1/4" x 11 1/4" since I needed to allow an extra 1/4" to accomodate the candles. Score at 5 1/2" and 5 3/4".
• The flames were punched from Copper Foil (142020) paper with the Leaf Punch (144667). I colored the based of the flame with a Light Cherry Cobbler Blend(144576).

This photo gives you an idea how shiny it gets with the foil papers.

• The front uses the Large Numbers Framelits (140622), Number of Years stamp set (140653), along with the Foil Frenzy  Specialty DSP (144125).

It's almost time to head back to Minnesota,  so until next time...