Lever Fold Birthday Card

This card is called a lever fold. I thought it was so elegant so had to give it a try. The card base is white 5.5 X 11. I layered it with recollections cs and embossed the layers with one of my many embossing folders. The leaves were stamped with the SU botanical blooms set and the flowers were from the SU Birthday blooms.I loved how it turned out. I usually leave the sentiments out until I am ready to give the card away. I will be doing more of this card fold so I created a cut file to make it come together quickly. I hope you like it as much as I do.

I will enter this card into the Simon Says Wednesday challenge.

Simon Says - emboss

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Fabulous Flamingo!

Hi everyone,

I am still creating cards but life is busy right now. Family comes first so that does keep me going. I have created this card and decided to add it to some challenges this week. The stamp is from Stupendous called what else Flamingo. 

The  card base is 5 x 7  ready made White cs. I Then cut a layer 4.5 x 6.5 and stamped the background with SU botanical blooms using old olive ink. I then cut a mellon mombo shape using a die from SU. I used an embossing folder on the layer and for the image I also used the next smallest shape after I colored the image. To color I used stampin' up markers mellon mombo, peach parfait and blushing bride for the flamingo. The water was soft sky, and the foliage is old olive and pear pzazz. I added a small dragon fly from an older set (2007) from Crafty Secrets. The feathers were stamped using ART-C   No name on the package so they are just feathers.  I added two gold banners at the top, a melon mombo bow and glittered the feathers and wings. I love painting birds of all kinds so when I seen this stamp I had to buy it. I will add this card into these challenges,

Glitter and Sparkle - anything goes

613 Ave Create - anything goes with option create a tag

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