Sea Shells Birthday

This card is for my brother. Probably not really a “guy” card, with the glitter. But I don’t have a lot of options – most of my stamps are flowers!

I taped a brass stencil to some textured ivory cardstock, then stippled the shells with Stampin’ Up! inks in Sahara Sand, Creamy Caramel and Really Rust. Then I used embossing paste over them and sprinkled them with Art Institute Ultrafine Crystal glitter. I mounted it on Creamy Caramel and added some “faux brads” to the corners. The sentiment is from Stampin’ Up!’s Sincere Salutations stamped in Creamy Caramel, and I added a couple scored lines, done with my Scor-Pal.

A couple personal things – Sunday is my one-year blog anniversary. My how time flies!! Thanks to ALL of you for continuing to visit. I really appreciate it!

And Sunday my friend, Harriet (hskelly on SCS – new celebrity as a member of the Clean and Simple Challenge team!!!) flies in from California and we head down to Des Moines to meet up with other members of our Yahoo! group for our third annual “Group Gathering.” We are all sooooooo excited for this! We look forward to it all year! We’ll spend all day Monday and half of Tuesday at the Archiver’s in Des Moines (stop in and visit if you’re in the area) and then Harriet will stay at my house until Friday morning. I still need to get ready!

Thanks so much for looking, and I hope you’ll come back and visit again soon!