Cozy Winter Birthday

Happy Sunday everyone!  I hope this post finds everyone having a wonderful weekend and getting ready for a good week ahead.  We went ice skating on Friday night...it was SO much fun!  My birthday is this coming Friday, and I had really wanted to go skating.  But, the rink isn't open to the public on my birthday because of a hockey tournament...so we decided to go this past weekend instead!  And then on my actual birthday we are going to dinner with friends, and then having champagne cupcakes at our house afterward.  And THEN the next weekend...we are heading to my parents' for a couple days, and they are taking us to dinner in Butte on the Friday we head over.  So- I am getting THREE weekends of birthday celebration...so fun!  I am such a lucky and loved girl...tee hee!

Today I have a card to share with you that I did just for fun!  I really wanted to use Mojo Monday Sketch 172, and Winter White Tuesday Trigger from Moxie Fab...so I did!  Tee hee!  This is what I came up with:

"Wishing You a Cozy Winter Birthday" supplies: 

Cardstock: The Paper Company (cream) & Bazzill Basics (white, tan dot)

Paper: American Crafts (Christmas: Merry & Bright) 

Stamps/Skate Die: Papertrey Ink (On Ice set & die)

Ink: Clearsnap (Pigment: amber satin) 

Chipboard: Tattered Angels

Lace Trim: Rusty Pickle

Twine: Darice Inc. 

Rhinestone Button: Jenni Bowlin Studio

Jewels: International Greetings USA
Pin: craft supply

Glitter: DecoArt

Corner Rounder: EK Success

Diecut Machine: Cuttlebug by Provo Craft

Instructions:  Fold cream cardstock in half to make card base, and round the bottom corners.  Round the bottom corners of a swiss dot tan cardstock block, and adhere to the front.  Adhere a strip of lace trim to the front.  Round the lower left corner of a gold dot paper block, and adhere to the front.  Glitter a chipboard frame and adhere with the left side overlapping the existing elements on the card.  Diecut the skates from white cardstock, and then stamp the image to them.  Accent with jewels, and adhere to the top of the glittered frame.  Tie a triple bow from twine, and adhere to the top of the frame.  Accent the middle of the bow with a rhinestone button.  Stamp the sentiment to a cream cardstock strip, and cut the edge to look like a flag.  Adhere the strip around a gold topped pin, and adhere it to the front, slightly tucked in behind the skates. 

Here are images of the sketch and the Tuesday Trigger photo....which is amazing, by the way.  I was inspired by the colors and all the amazing texture on it! 

Thank you for taking a peek at my blog today!  There are going to be lots of fun posts this coming week, so be sure to check back! ♥♥♥ 

Until later,
~Lea L.

P.S.  To all my readers who might be scrapbookers as well...I recently found a new sketch blog that you might like!  It is a spin-off from the card sketch blog called Get Sketchy!  This one is called Get Your Sketch On, and they have a pretty big giveaway going on right now!  So be sure to check it out...and if this is the first place you found out about the blog...then put me down as the person who referred you in the comments!  Thanks friends!!