Happy Birthday!

by Misty

Hi!  Misty here, to share a layout and card I made, using the newly released birthday chippy’s!  There are so many fun pieces in this release that it was hard to choose which ones  to use first!

 I was browsing the web before doing this layout and saw a new sketch over at Once Upon a Sketch, and when I saw the theme for this month was birthdays, it just seemed meant to be!  So I followed the sketch very closely to make this page. Its not my normal colors or style but I do like how it turned out.

Here you can see the beautiful wordlet “Pretty as a picture”.  For this wordlet I just painted with a little gesso and then topped it off with some Martha Stewart glitter.

Here I’ve used the awesome Instant photo frames!  Seriously, my favorites from the release!  I love the fact that they have designs on them that you can keep and accentuate, or if you want a simple frame you can just apply a good layer of gesso and voila!  For this particular frame I decided to keep with the pattern of the dots by adding bling over them.   I also used the new flourish chippy above the frame and draped some tulle around it.  It was originally white, but I used the same pink paint I used to make the crackled background and dyed the tulle to match.  You will also see 3 of the small tags tucked away under the picture.  I’ve journaled on the back of them.

In this pic I’ve used some of the cogs, that I can’t get enough of and have been hoarding for a project that I have in mind for the near future.  I decided to give a couple up for this page though.  I applied a thin coat of gesso and then some Tim Holts distress ink for the blue tint. I topped them off with some older style prima flourish and a handmade flower.

These particular candles were a little bigger than I expected.  I’m horrible about verifying sizes but it worked out in my favor because they reminded me a lot of the candles in the sketch.  I kept them simple and just used gesso and more glitter. For the “1st birthday” mini wordlet, I just used a small paintbrush and then painted them and added more of the glitter to make it more cohesive to the rest of the layout!

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Now, I will have you bear with me and my card making abilities, as I share with you this fun card inspired (but not even comparable to) our very own Michelle Hernandez!  She is such a trend setter and was one of the first I noticed using neon on her layouts and cards.  I am a 90′s kind of girl so I do love that neon has made a comeback (I just really hope tight rolling our jeans don’t come back…or was that the 80′s?  Oh, how time flies!)

I’ve used a lace craft tag and painted over it with gesso, while using some punchinella as a stencil.  Then for the “Make a wish” wordlet I used some shiny neon acrylics in green and pink.   I also outlined the tag and the holes detailing the bottom of the tag in the same neon pink used to paint the wordlet.