My daughter, Laura, had a birthday yesterday, and I made this card for her using the Serene Silhouettes stamp set. I have been using this set for so many occasions lately. I just can't stamp enough with it, because I am just so inspired by it. I guess it just reflects the beautiful summer plants that abound, and surround me while I stamp on the porch at my little country retreat (our trailer LOL). Laura and her husband, Tom, have a trailer at the campground, too, so she stops by many times a day (around baby's naps and feedings) to visit, so I had to keep this card under wraps while she came around. I had to hide it under a stack of paper for a while. She is my only daughter, and although I tried to dress her up in ribbons and lace, she always preferred a more casual look. She is a bit of a tomboy, you could say, but as she has grown older she's coming around. I remember when she turned 30 she came to a shower and all the cousins were talking about Laura's cute shoes. They had never seen her wear a strappy bright summer sandal. She said, "I don't know what happened, but when I turned 30, I suddenly had this craving to shop for cute shoes and skirts!" We all said it was about keeping it sexy for the husband :)
So her birthday card is the ribbons and lace that remind me of when she was my baby doll, and I could dress her all in pink and flowers. (She sure loves dressing her baby girl in flowers and lace, too.)
I started out with a base of Crumb Cake paper, added a layer of Certainly Celery which I embossed with the stripes. Embossed some Wisteria Wonder with the dots, and cut a lacy edge. The flowers (or are they weeds?) on Very Vanilla card stock were stamped with certainly Celery, then I wipe off the flower heads, and stamp just the blossoms with Wisteria Wonder. I love doing that technique, and I keep a little travel pack of baby wipes handy, and just snip off a little piece of the towel big enough for my clean-up job, and save the rest of the wipe in the package. Really handy trick. The sentiments inside and out were from Bring on the Cake stamp set.
I enjoyed making this card, and hope you like it too. Stop back real soon :)
Mary Alice
Great card and cute story!
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