Blogger Challenge: Week 47

I'm glad it's finally Friday! This week has seemed so long . . . I took today off from work, which is good because it's a rainy day and I dread having to drive to work on rainy days since the rain makes the drive miserable. I just wish that I didn't have to take Cosmo the crazy dog back to the vet yet again. Wet, mad dog in my car in the rain is not a good thing! Anyway, on to the stamped stuff. This week's challenge was to use a layout featured on page 21 of the current SU! Occasions mini catalog. I had a hard time with this one (it is a *challenge* after all . . .) and I'm not too thrilled about what I came up with, but I decided to share it anyway.

I found this fun patterned paper with a "Happy Birthday" theme in my pile of patterned papers and thought it would work well for the large panel on the cardfront. Since I was working with a birthday theme, I used the candle images from Big Birthday Candle for the main image. I stamped the candles on scraps and trimmed around them, then attached them to the white panel. The colors coordinate more IRL than they appear to in the photo. The candle flames are highlighted with some Dazzling Diamonds. The candle panel covered a little more of the patterned paper than I thought it would when I envisioned this project.

I debated doing some machine stitching along the left side of the panel, but ended up taking an easier route. I had some green ric rac left on my desk from another recent project and decided to add a little of that to the cardfront instead of stitching.

Be sure to check out what the other challenge participants created using this layout. You can find links to their blogs in the sidebar on the right.

Materials Used:
Big Birthday Candle stamp set, Tempting Turquoise, Yoyo Yellow, and Green Galore Classic inks, Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, and Whisper White cardstock, Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon, mat pack and paper piercing tool, Dazzling Diamonds, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); ric rac (Walmart); patterned paper (DCWV)