Due to my tendency to procrastinate, I wound up needing a special card for my youngest son's 18th birthday at the same time I needed a sample card for the F4A challenge. Since my kids were little, I have made them very complex cards for their birthday's. If i had known that this would turn into a life long tradition, that first card would have been a CAS card instead of an " everything but the kitchen sink" card.I can make 10 regular cards in the time it takes to make one of these special cards. This is a shelf card, but I added a lot to it. All the elements are digital stamps because you need to work to get everything the same size. The movie curtain was narrow, so I printed and colored 2 , cut it in half, and added the center part from the 2nd one into the middle of the first curtain. Each of the little boys is colored and fussy cut, then popped up on a small square of clear acetate. The boy with the broken leg has balloons attached to the clear acetate so they look like they are floating. All the little scenes are events from my son's childhood. The entire card folds flat so you can mail it. It has a lot of green and blue for the F4A challenge. TFL, Francie
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2015 GMT Views: 2541
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Registered: August 8, 2006 Location: Roseville CA Posts: 18519
Sun, May 10, 2015 @ 6:15 AM
This is so incredibly precious and shows so much love, care, not to mention talent and creativity. I happened upon this because it was mentioned so many times in the faves of the week - and very rightly son. This is one special card.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Thu, Jan 07, 2016 @ 1:42 PM
Francie, this was worth seeing again! Lydia posted it on facebook today! In my entire stamping history, I could never imagine this nor would I ever be capable of doing it! Glad to see it again!