I don't use a lot of number designs but I decided to use the number theme for the CAS challenge this week to make an 80th birthday card for my mom. I was going for a kind of a beachy color scheme and found the background paper in my scrap bin, attached to a white cardbase and used that to inspire the rest of my card. I had a very old (Autumn Leaves again) set of large numbers I'd gotten in a clearance grab bag many years ago and had never used. I wasn't even sure if they would work! But they did. I cut a rectangle from the green and blue page of the "spray paint" paper pad (colorbok) and stamped the 80 using Versamark watermark ink, then heat embossed with champagne gold powder. I attached to the card front and added several gems.
I was using sentiments from the CZ Design Love Garden Greetings set -- it has a larger stamp that says "birthday greetings" and I wanted to add "for you" so that the card says "80 birthday greetings for you" all together. But there was no "for you" in the smaller sentiments. However, two of the sentiments used the word "for" and "you" so I very carefully trimmed them off with my xacto knife and arranged the words on my MISTI to spell out the greeting. I stamped in Memories black onto a white cardstock scrap, which I cut out and attached inside the card (too afraid to try stamping it directly in the card and messing it up!) I added a strip of the background paper inside the card.
USEIT2023: paper scraps! also the Autumn Leaves numbers set which was unused despite being well over a decade old!
Date: Friday, January 27, 2023 GMT Views: 243
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Fri, Jan 27, 2023 @ 3:36 PM
Pretty gold embossing. I like that background paper. Terrific use of the numbers for a milestone birthday. A beautiful card for your mom's special birthday.
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Sat, Jan 28, 2023 @ 10:23 AM
Awe Happy Birthday to your mom!!! She is going to love that you personalized this for her 80th birthday. Thank you so much for joining the CAS challenge.