Birthday and Friendship

When I saw the Time Out Challenge Sweet Treats, I immediately thought of PTI Your Beautiful Birthday.  It's such a fun mini set that lets you build an artsy cake--totally different than most of my stamp sets.  I pulled out my sack of die cut panels and frames--determined to use some of them.  

Many friends send me die cuts and unfortunately, I'm not sure who gave me the heart bordered panel.  I love it and still have a couple more to use.  I did have to trim down the silver metallic panel to the size I wanted, but one less in the sack!  Really happy to be able to use one of the many smaller rectangles left from die cutting frames.  

I silver embossed the cake plate and then double stamped the solid cake layers in Altenew Pale Mauve.  The dots were stamped in Amethyst and the center of the candles in Grape Agate.  The flames were stamped in Amethyst and the glow in Delicata Silvery Shimmer.  I inked the card front edges in Grape Agate to show through the hearts.  The sentiment from PTI Scripted was stamped in Grape Agate and I silver embossed the edges.  I'm also entering DCD and SSS Wednesday. 

The challenge at JUGS is Spotlight Technique.  That is basically what I did for the first card in my last post, so I wanted to do something different.  IO roses background stamp is a favorite I haven't used in ages.  I black heat embossed a panel of Bristol cardstock so I could use another neglected product--Zig Watercolor brush markers.  

After diecutting the small label, I colored it with Light Carmine and Pink Flamingo, using the Zig blender brush and no water.  Then I spritzed with shimmer, added a cardstock layer for dimension and glued it into place.  SSS Painted Hugs and the mat were cut from glossy black cardstock.  Finished off with a tiny black wooden heart and 3 clear sequins.  I'm also entering WAW. 

Edited to add:  I am not a "radical left lunatic" but I'm absolutely repulsed by Trump's blasphemy, as well as his speech and actions.  Not all Christians support this administration. 

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Christmas Wreath

I've always loved wreaths, so have quite a few in my stamp collection. All week I've been trying to decide which one to use for the Merry Monday challenge, so here it is down to the wire, again! Finally decided to go with this berry wreath by Penny Black. It was one of the last stamps I bought before my LSS closed a couple years ago. I stamped it in the beautiful Delicata Golden Glitz which really does look like gold leaf in person. The card is cut from Spellbinders Reverse Wonky Rectangles & is stamped with PB Music Background in antique linen Distress Ink. The word die is also PB die cut in gold & cream.  I expected to use the gold one on top, but actually liked it better this way.  
I won a roll of May Arts ribbon when PB did a collaboration with them & this gorgeous iridescent gold is what I picked. I'll add this to the Anything Goes challenge at SSS Wed & the stamps & dies challenge at STAMPlorations.   
I was honored to be asked by 3 people to participate in the Creative Blog Hop, but decided to opt out.  Instead I'm going to show you cards that grabbed my attention but don't have a lot of comments & maybe you'll want to take a minute to check them out & leave some love. Today I've chosen Cat of Cat Luvs Paper.  It's interesting how we connect with various people we've never met.  Cat is a special friend who leaves me sweet comments, sends me happy mail & gave me a WOS pen--probably got tired of me saying I wanted one in every comment I left--LOL!  Here are a couple of my favorites:

http://catluvspaper.blogspot.com/2014/08/another-layered-flower.html

http://catluvspaper.blogspot.com/2014/08/thanks.html

Thanks for taking time to visit my blog.  Enjoy the holiday weekend if you're in the US.