Absolutely Fabulous Birthday!

Today I have a super fun birthday card to share with you! I made it for a SP and Company DT call, but I also made it with a specific person in mind! First, I need to tell you about these stamps!!! Let me just say that I discovered SP & Company a few days ago and I'm hooked already.  I can't stop checking out the galleries and the stamp sets.  Obsess much?! :-)  I just adore their stamp designs - some of them seem like they were made just for me (which is cool, yet weird at the same time - can they read my mind?!)! They have everything from sentiments to frames to adorable images! My favorite thing is that some of the sets are the 2-step kind - you have a base stamp and then another stamp that goes with it... LOVE this - the possibilites are endless... Go and check them out!!!

Now, for the challenge.... The requirement was to use blue.  No problems there! I decided to make blue the accented color, though, not the focal color.  Why? Well, I decided that this card was going to go to the wonderful 87-year old woman that works with me and she loves purple.  She is just incredible.  We work in a print shop together - I'm in the Pre-Press/Design/Print area and she is in the bindery.  I swear she has more energy than I do on most days and when she laughs, EVERYONE laughs! She just has the best attitude and the craziest sense of humor.

OK, enough chit chat, right?! On to the card!!!!

I used white cardstock for the background, which I've been doing more recently.  Most of the time, I want color, but white just felt right for this one.  The other stocks I used were Kraft and Deja Views (purple).  The little punchy-punch at the bottom is a Martha Stewart punch (one of my favorites that I use WAY too much!).  I made sure the little butterfly at the top had blue and purple wings.  I used Copics for that.

You can see some of the detail of the butterfly here.  I actually cut him out twice, so there are two layers of wings.

Needless to say, she was thrilled with the card and that made me so happy.  I love watching the expression on the face of the recipient when they look at a card and realize for the first time that I made it.  It doesn't get much better than that.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the weekend! I'm waiting for the hubby to come home (he's out of town for a wedding), so the kids and I will be out and about, trying to stay busy this weekend! I'm sure I will find time to make some cards, though - I always do!!!!