Masculine Birthday

 

Happy Saturday and thanks for taking the time to visit the Charmed Life Blog. I am in the process of taking all the Christmas decorations down.

 

I love getting them all out but all  the careful packing and putting away is tedious. So I spread it out over several days to make it more manageable. The trees take the longest.

 

I have 3 of them so I usually tackle the dining room tree first. Then all the other decorations in this room. Once I have completed that I feel as though the house is returning to a normal state. It spurs me on to finish everything else. Just little tricks I use on myself (lol)!!

 

Now onto my card for today. This one I made for the color challenge #460. Becky is our hostess and she has chosen some rich tones with rich razzleberry, island indigo and night of navy.

I started with my card layout, which is this week’s MojoMonday 327 sketch. I decided to use the island indigo as my main color to create more of a masculine card. My brother’s birthday is coming up next week.

On the image panel, I used the Stampin-Up set “gorgeous grunge” to add some background splatters in rich razzleberry. The balloons are from the "party this way" set. I stamped in night of navy and cut the balloon streamers from navy cardstock.

The background designer paper is from Stampin-Up’s “venetian romance” collection. I thought this pattern looked the dessert option Becky is asking for with using splatters.

The long rectangle layer is more Stampin-Up designer paper  “world spectacular” collection. I added a border die to this panel with Verve’s scallop trio” die.

Punched a few rich razzleberry hearts from a Spellbinders die to complete my card.

Well, time to get back to my un-decorating. So until next time..........God bless.

I am also entering:
1.   Crafty Hands Challenge Blog has an anything goes.
2.  Sister Act Card Challenge has an anything goes.
3.  Charisma Cardz Challenge is birthdays.
4.  Crafting By Designs is a birthday challenge.

 

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