But life just gets crazy most weeks, and sometimes you need an easy way to make a beautiful birthday card.
That way came to me in January, in Phoenix, when I basically melted into a puddle of joy at the Alexandra Renke booth.
This was my introduction to her incredible art, and I literally screamed. Everything she makes is so incredibly beautiful, I kept going back to the booth over and over to stare at her stunning watercolor images on her paper, and on her teeny, delicate dies. Her style is so unlike anything I've seen before that I was just in amazement.
I spoke to her then about possibly doing a hop with the MISTI Design Team and she said yes, at which point I almost fainted dead away.
She curated a package for each of us, and I got to see them all before I mailed them out to the team - everything was so beautiful. I can't wait to see what everyone has done.
But today, I have to use what drew me into her booth. Her breathtaking paper. This paper gives me everything I love on a card without the hours of painting. There's stunning watercolor, and sweet images, and beautiful, soft colors. And all I had to do was die cut it to have a gorgeous card!
First, I cut out the little giraffe from this paper - the little dots are printed on the paper - with my Circle Infinity Dies. I cut another circle from black cardstock for a shadow. Then I layered the Balloon design paper onto the card base. It's hard to see here, but this paper has little splatters of watercolor all in the white space. For that reason, I wanted to cut the sentiment from that too so it would match, so I carefully arranged her beautiful Happy Birthday dies - they are two separate dies, so that made it easier - in the white space of a scrap of the paper and cut the words. I cut another set from black and glued them together, not quite aligned. I glued them down onto the card base and added some Like Magic sequins. The card base is Desert Storm.
It's so fun to have a simple way to make a card that looks just like I watercolored it.
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Now I had to have a cute envelope for the card, and she also has GORGEOUS washi tape with her art on it. I had a roll of the circus tape which was perfect for my sweet giraffe card, so I pulled out one of my "ready to rock" envelopes. This is a package of gorgeous recycled envelopes that have little flecks of color in them, and I take a whole package when I get them, and put my #lettersforhenry stamp on them as well as a postage stamp. So I always have 50 envelopes ready for just an address and some washi tape - that little bit of time savings makes me mail more cards!
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Nifty, eh? I thought you'd like that.
So now - on to the hop!
Loveyameanitbye.
