Sparkley Birthday Card

I am really not one to join, "whatever flavor of the month clubs" but I came across one that seemed like a pretty decent deal to me so I signed up for Spellbinder's Small Die of the Month Club. This month's die was this set of 4 border dies:

 

I used the bottom die in the picture for my card.

 

 

I used some coppery, shiny paper for the die cuts. I went shopping in Vegas last week with foil paper on the top of my list. I went to Jo Ann's, Hobby Lobby and Michael's this copper was the best I could do but I think that it works well.

 

I used a copper embossing powder to do a wet emboss on the sentiment and added some pearls to add to the sparkle. Of course it is very hard to see how it sparkles even in this close up, it is one of the few cloudy days we get here in Arizona.



The card base is 5" wide x 6" folded, the copper layer is 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" and the printed layer is 4" x5", I had to cut off the end of the die cut in order to make them fit the card.

I am entering this card into this challenge: 
Use Your Stuff Challenge - 300 - Twinkle-twinkle
 

SIP Challenge #64 CAS

I came across this challenge over at Stamp Ink Paper and decided that it was the perfect challenge to use my new embossing paste for. This is my first CAS card as well as the first using embossing paste. I live in a rural area and it takes a long time for, "new" crafting idea products to be available. As a matter of fact, I had stopped in at the gift shop inside the hardware store last week in search of some embossing or texture paste because they have a very small scrapbooking/stamping area. The girl behind the counter assumed that I wanted something to repair my stucco walls...well, I don't like my stucco walls because the entire house is stucco, walls and ceilings. A little bit of stucco is ok but the whole house?

Anyhow, here is my card:

 

I have had this stencil in my stash for a long time, I added some green StazOn ink to the embossing paste that I used on the stem and leaves....the pinkish in the top area of the rose was kind of a mistake, I had used the stencil with my Spectrium Noir markers and wasn't able to get all of the color off but that was years ago so I don't know why the embossing paste picked it up and only in that area. I liked the way it looked so I used it.

 

The sentiment is wet embossed and I added a few pink pearls.

 

I am entering this card into this challenge:

 

Stamp Ink Paper Challenge #64.