A Purple Rinse? No Just an 80th Birthday Card!

Morning! Been busy making a card for a sister. It's for a friend of my mum's who wanted it for her older sister who will be 80 years old young at the end of the week. Had no idea what I was going to do, made harder with lack of supplies...

 'What does she like?" "Moaning" came back the answer or something similar! So, something to cheer her up then!

First I thought purple, can't go wrong with purple and then I thought 'big' (for me) and made an 8x8 card. 

Cut a slice off the side, turned it over then fixed  a smaller square card to the front to do that over folding flapping thingy I did on John's Birthday card.. But made the second card smaller.

I did a bit of a cheat, I did that 'gutting?' where you cut out the middle of the Bazzil card (This one had a slight shimmer) as I only had one sheet of that colour,  I just had enough, almost, which is why there's two different purples, (the other without shimmer) but I'd started, so I had to finish! 

The first backing paper to go on was from a Humphrey's Corner Christmas decoupage pack, free from a magazine. You can't tell it has Christmas snow flakes/stars, but it was the right colour, and then... the printer did a wobblier..."Can't print...problems with black ink cartage..." problems with black ink cartage? What d'you mean!!?? You were only put in last week!" 

Honestly, printer ink costs more than gold! But it was no good, no amount of explaining or arguing with the computer or the printer made any difference.
 I used hubby's computer... imagine this...I'm in one room... I 'send' to his computer in another room to print out matching papers, pressed print and run down the hall ready to catch said sheet from the jaws of his printer just before it spits it out on to the floor! (Do that ten times and I'm sure I've lost weight) But that was no good. His computer left lines in the pattern, lines that weren't there, and completely decided to change the colour! Didn't ask, just took it upon it's self to lighten the shade a little or, put in an extra colour...

Anyway, after raiding the piggy-bank, new ink was bought for my printer, not forgetting I'm still out of paper so I'm using up some of my old manuscript (good paper, can't waist waste it!) and hunting through all my files and folders for scraps of paper that match... then I thought, who's to know? let's just go with what I can find. 

So this card has backing papers from Forever Friends, Humphrey's Corner, and a lovely freebie from SummerDrings  A Little Spring in your Step. Haven't got any 'posh' flowers, so punched these out from Forever Friends paper, missing out the Fishing Teddy...(Can't think I'll ever use him anyway) Added an embossed panel with Happy Birthday and inked with some Tim Holtz ink...  no reason, I just was in the mood to 'ink' something! Colour match was now forgotten completely! 

I added Acetate to the bottom of the smaller card to help it stand up...found the ribbon, part of a set from a two sheet gift paper parcel set from Tesco's. (Nice and long!)

The little catch came from a gardening/hardware store. 3p each. Added embossed corners, pearls from a magazine, a string of pearls and the poem, I made up! (It's okay to talk about beer...and it rhymed very well cheer!) I've even papered the back of the card but didn't take a pic of that, as the colour was nowhere near the colour it should be, but it still looked nice!

 There's three different Die Cuts, and thirteen brads...must be a record.

Then of course, what was I going to put on the front?? and as if by magic this little LOTV  digi image (already stamped out and free from magazine) popped out of a drawer, so I coloured it using purple and grey Promarkers... 

The font I've used is a freebie; it's called Amazone BT download it HERE. 

That's it! I'm not here for the next few days...off house/dog sitting as well as hubby having the week off (yay!)... I was just coming back yesterday from doing just that when I saw sis- in-law in her posh new animal ambulance ...it's a dead end road so I thought, "Are you coming to find me?" "No, I've got a dog to walk down here...." The one day I used her ambulance must have won her a few customers, how lucky was that, who says advertising doesn't pay!? ok, that really is it, bye for now!!!

 Challenges.

One Stitch At A Time- Use A Digi.

Creative Corner Challenges - Food and Drink
 Crafty Sentiments-dies and punches
Creative Fingers challenge- Anything Goes