I'm always looking for a way to make a birthday card a little different-looking. With Valentine's Day in February and my dad's birthday on the 25th (he's 96 this year-wow!) I thought I'd try to do something in red and gold.
I decided on an ivory card base with a heart border. I knew I wanted some gold matting and added some pink patterned paper (Bo Bunny) and some plain red also. I used several Frantic stamper dies to decorate and the Perfect Layers rulers to make my mats quickly and ...well, perfectly ( no lie, these are great).
I'm a blingy kind of person and I used red glitter card. I wanted a really nice flower so I layered green suede paper for the stem. I really love crepe ribbon with its wrinkly texture. I use it on a lot of my projects and I did here. I wanted to add something to fill up the right side of my card and thought it would be fun to have a set of goblets - to toast his birthday.
Now, guess what he material is that I used for a background mat - you know that bright gold, wrinkly paper? It's crepe paper! Yup! Just like the kind we used as kids - except this kind is has a metal coating on it to give it that gold look. I found this special crepe paper (and tons of colors as well as Desden Foil or German scrap) at Castle In The Air. I like it so much that Ive added it to my favorites!
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