Fab Birthday

DARE to be FABULOUS

My sister Michelle turned 30 this past week and besides it being a milestone birthday for her, it was a great opportunity for me to make her a card. As her older sister I wanted to tell her how great the "thirties" are. I mean when your thirty you are usually richer, wiser, more secure, and in the middle of living the life of marriage and home and career. And your still very, very YOUNG! So what better stamp set to use then the Fabulous Flower stamp set by SU.

This stamp set has a Fabulous flower that can be stamped and layered to create a work of art! It screams for techniques and glitter and embossing and embellishments and whatever the artist wants to use to help this beauty grow. It also has a wonderful word stamp that says, "Dare to be Fabulous" and that's what I wanted my sister to know on her 30th birthday. Here's the card I made:

Now this card is amazing in person, the camera really couldn't capture it's true beauty. And it was so easy to create this flower. Here's a few pics of the process:

I stamped the flowers fours times (3 pictured here).
I used the Stamp-a-Ma-Jig (CLICK FOR TUTORIAL)
to re stamp the flower in the same place several times to get it as dark as you see here.

Then I cut out different layers from the stamped flowers and I added some glitter accents using Stickles. (you can get stickles at scrapbook stores or online). You could also add glitter with a glue pen and dazzling diamond glitter from SU.

I heat set the flowers and then layered them using large glue dots to pop each layer up. The top layer I added crystal brad. And then I attached the Fab Flower to the card.

The card layout is inspired by a sketch challenge on splitcoaststampers. Click here to find out more info on this sketch: card sketch challenge #138