Hip Hip Hooray!

It's a new week and a new challenge at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog.  The topic for this week is RECYCLE SOMETHING ON YOUR CREATION and please name what it is for our benefit! I've used this terrific image named Cheerleader that is an image from The Paper Shelter for this birthday card. I made up my own clever (don't burst my bubble, I thought it was clever) birthday sentiment on the computer.

Looking at this card you would never imagine what I have reused and recycled....the purple foil background. It's wrapping paper from a present this past Christmas! It was so pretty that I saved the part that hadn't gotten wrinkled!

I've used my favorite punch on this card and have used it many times in the past! It's a border punch by Martha Stewart and it's called "Doily Lace". I used silver glitter paper, doing both sides of my strip of paper, and then put rows of red rhinestones on top of it. The rhinestones are in rows of 2 so I ended up cutting down the middle of one row to get the 5 rows you see here.  I used a set of round and scalloped punches by Marvy on the sentiment.

I used a Spellbinders die to cut out the red metallic diecut around the image, as well as another one out of white cardstock, and I used an oval diecut on the image itself. My tip on this card is that when I put the red diecut against the purple wrapping paper, I needed something between the two for the color red to pop. So, I die cut another fancy oval Spellbinder die out of white cardstock, cut it across the middle and then slid the upper half of the white paper up a bit under the red die cut and then slid the lower half of white paper down a bit so there's a white shadow border behind the red fancy die. I love the color red and when pairing it up with this purple, it's a combination that really pops. 

My image is colored with Copics and I added Stickles to her pom-poms, the red stripes on her socks, hair scrunchie and cheer outfit. The 3 ribbon flowers below were absolutely perfect to use on this card since they reminded me of pom poms! I can't tell you how many years I've had these 3 ribbon flowers and they've been waiting to be used. I'm sticking to my 2015 resolution about using my beautiful craft items that I keep saving for the perfect project! Did anyone else make a resolution to do the same thing?

Are you someone who reads these posts or someone who flies through them to look at the photos and then leave a comment by choice or by no option? I'd like to award someone a free digital image (your choice) from The Paper Shelter if you read all this and leave a comment below. For me to know you've read the post, however, answer my question in the paragraph above in your comment. I'll pick the winner (on the 18th) only from those comments that answer the question. Sorry TPS DT, but your name won't be entered in this little drawing for obvious reasons.

My bow is made of pure silk and is tied using my Craft-Dee BowZ tool. I can't tell you how easy it is to make bows with this little tool, but I can tell you that I will never again struggle to make beautiful bows. Anyone can use this fabulous tool!

We're sponsored by our favorite digital company, The Paper Shelter, who has offered this fabulous prize. Do you have any idea how many images a $30 voucher can get you? Ten OR MORE!!! It's definitely an awesome prize if you use an image from The Paper Shelter and win!

 

There are fabulous inspirational projects made by the talented Design Team for this challenge and you can cruise through them at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog.  The topic is RECYCLE SOMETHING ON YOUR CREATION and please name what it is for our benefit. I hope you'll join us this week and I love looking at your projects!

 

                                                                                                   Hugs,

                                                                                                   Gail

 

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Sister Act, Brown Sugar, Catch the Bug, Card & Scrap, Cupcake Inspirations, Not Just Cards, Crafting From the Heart, Incy Wincy Designs, Top Tip Tuesday, Loves Rubber Stamps, Crafty Sentiments, Creative Card Crew, Scrappers Delights, Pile It On, Craft Your Passion, That Craft Place, My Creative Moments, My Bestie Norge, Card Mania, Crafts Galore Encore, Mema's Crafts, Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper, Stamping Sensations, Crafting Musketeers, Party Time Tuesdays, Crafty Calendar, Bunny Zoe's Crafts, Fairytale Stamper, Clear It Out

 

Oh, the cupcake colors that inspired me at Cupcake Inspirations is this one: