Friday, November 15, 2024

Sweet Sixteen

 Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Favorite Colors

Here is my card for your inspiration:
Can you tell what my favorite color is?  Ha, ha, yes, blue!!  It also happens to be the favorite color of my middle daughter.  She and her twin sister turned 16 this past week and this is the card I created for her.  (You will get to see the card for the younger twin later in the month.)  Since they were turning 16, I wanted something a little classy and more grown up than usual (though this twin did ask where her monkey was since I usually make her cards with monkeys on them).  I chose this elegant little lady from All Dressed Up.  I really love paper piecing and thought it might be easier than coloring.  I was wrong, but I still really like how it turned out.  I chose this image because my daughter quite often wears her hair in a bun.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:
Stamps: All Dressed Up "Best Frocks" digi; Verve "Beautiful You" sentiment; PaperTrey Ink "The Sweet Life" flourish
Dies: Spellbinders "Classic Ovals, large"; PaperTrey Ink fancy border die and "By the Numbers" border die; MFT "Formal Flourish"

Challenges:
Double Trouble #179--Delicious Layers (Thing #1: more than three layers)
Cards Galore #129--anything goes
Cutie Pie #200--Special Occasions (a 16th birthday is very special!!)
Crafty Calendar--anything goes













Sheepski Designs #92--anything goes
Penny's Challenge #584--anything goes
Crafty Catz #682--anything goes with the optional twist: use ribbon/twine
A Gem of A Challenge--anything goes
The Paper Shelter #618--spots and/or stripes

8 comments:

Julie Odil said...

Heather, this is beautiful! I love how elegant the card looks. Thanks for joining us this week at The Paper Shelter! Julie O, TPS DT

Gerda said...

What a beautiful card!! I love the pretty image and great take on the sketch!!
Have a great day,
Gerda

Donna Scholz said...

Heather, congratulations on your daughters' 16th birthday! This is the perfect card for a young lady on her milestone birthday! Great job using paper piecing and the beautiful array of pattern papers!!! Thank you for sharing with us at Double Trouble for our "layers" challenge. -Donna

Suzanne Reynolds said...

Beautiful piecing of the dress on your classy lady and the matched complementary patterned papers for the background. Excellent interpretation of the sketch and the flourish finishes off your card beautifully. Thanks for sharing your delicious layers with us at Double Trouble.

Sylvia kaarten en zo said...

Beautiful card. Thank you for joining us at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge. Greetings Sylvia DT.

Liz said...

Fabulous card, great design and I love your colour choice. Thank you for joining in the Crafty Calendar Challenge this month.
Liz xx

Kellianne said...

This is just full of blue gorgeousness!! I love blue too! I love how her dress is perfectly matched to the background. Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble :)

Margreet said...

Blue all over, but you have used awesome DP. The little lady looks very elegant in her paperpieced dress.
Thanks for playing with us at CS.
xxx Margreet