barbie inspired

Happy Saturday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog.
We are in quite a cold spell right now. But I guess it's most of the East Coast. Our high temp today was only 19 degrees.

I had Austin (my grandson) on an overnight. He came without his brothers so we had a good night together. The boys like the one-on-one time with us and so do we. He went home around lunch time today because he had basketball practice.

My card for today is one that I did for the inspiration challenge on splitcoaststampers. This week our hostess, Stef, took us to the Barbie collectors site. It was such fun looking at all the Barbie dolls and trying to figure out what I could do in the way of a card.

I chose this happy birthday Barbie doll to create my card. The colors I chose to use were Stampin Up's melon mambo and bermuda bay and the sweetheart stamp set.

I stamped the heart image and then punched a heart from designer paper. I added a button to the middle that was cut from a sizzlits die.
I also used the cuttlebug embossing folder "kassie's brocade on the melon mambo panel. The bermuda bay ribbon finished off my card.

My layout came from a card that I saw on the pink buckaroo blog and it was also a stampin 411 sketch. I changed the colors, paper and ribbon to make it my own.

This is also for a few other challenges:

1.  The really reasonable ribbon blog has a heart and ribbon challenge.

2.  The totally gorjuss blog is challenging to use hot colors.

3.  The simply create blog wants us to use our punches. I used 2 on this card.
Well, it's late and time to dim the lights in charmed life land for another day. So until next time........

card recipe:
stamps: sweetheart

paper: su ww, melon mambo, bermuda bay
ink: melon mambo, bermuda bay
accessories: sizzlit button die, scallop border punch, ribbon