Sparkly birthday

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week we have a beautiful inspiration photo for you:

And here is the card I created:

 Inspiration photo challenges are my least favorite challenge, probably ever!!  I really struggle mixing colors together and having them look good together.  Just being real here.  But, that's why they are called challenges, right?  So, at first look, my card might not have a lot to do with the photo, but I used the dark blue and turquoise from the color combo and threw in some purple (both light and dark) sequins.  Also, the flowers in the background and the scallops on the border mimic the shape of the rosettes.  I started my card with a sketch in mind and created the flower panel.  I stamped the image with Cracked Sapphire Distress Oxide ink onto turquoise card stock and then I used three shades of blue distress oxides to blend around the panel.  I finish it off with just a tiny bit of soot distress oxide ink around the very edges.  Once I created the panel, I loved it so much, I just couldn't bear to cover it up, so I had to go in a different direction and create my own layout.  I had a bit of navy ribbon and the scalloped die cut in my bits and pieces stash.  I used some silver Metallic Gilding Polish to create a silver mat for my floral panel.  Then I saw the Silver Glimmer Kiss paste and decided to add some sparkle around the edge of the floral panel.  It was a bit nerve-wracking as I knew once I started there was no going back.  It didn't work exactly how I wanted, but I decided to go with it and I really LOVE the sparkle it added.  (You can see all the sparkle in the photo below.)

I die cut the "happy" out of silver glitter card stock and 3 more times out of dark blue card stock to layer together to add dimension.  I heat embossed the "birthday" with white embossing powder on navy card stock and matted the entire panel on navy as well.  Then I added the sequins sprinkled around!  It is soooooo gorgeous in real life!  This is going to go to a young woman at our church who is turning 18 this week!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo (most of them have done a much better job sticking to the picture).  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Flower Power Background" and "Birthday"
Dies: MFT "happy trio"

Challenges:
Crafty Sentiment--anything goes
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #122--anything goes
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #369--anything goes with snippets (the two pieces from my bits and pieces stash; also the "happy" pieces were all die cut from scraps and the turquoise layer was a scrap)
Your Next Stamp #130--shades of blue
Creative Fingers #177--anything goes
Cute Card Thursday #616--embellish
C.R.A.F.T. #540--anything goes
Double Trouble #47--hot or cold (Thing #1: embossing--I heat embossed the sentiment)
Use Your Stuff #389--anything goes
Sugar Pea Designs Meant to Be Sent--celebration (this will go in the mail tomorrow morning--edited: it went in the mail 1/16)

Creative Craft Cottage #125--anything goes
Penny Black--make it feminine
Brown Sugar #299--anything goes
Through The Purple Haze #163--anything goes