Festive Card for Time Out Challenge

Several weeks ago, a card I submitted to the Time Out Challenge blog was selected as the winner!  And they asked if I wanted to be a guest designer for them.  This is the week.

The Time Out Challenge #221 begins today, and the theme is FESTIVE!  You have two weeks to participate in the challenge and share your artwork on the blog.  So think of what is festive to you, and see how you can express that with whatever form of papercrafting you enjoy.

The challenge runs from Thursday, August 25 through Wednesday, September 7.  

 Click here to head over to the Time Out Challenge Blog for all the details.

This challenge is sponsored by Birch Press Design.  The winner gets $25 in store credit and an offer to Guest Design with us for a future challenge.  It could happen to you as it happened to me!

 

I chose to share a festive birthday celebration.  As our sons were growing, we always made birthdays pretty special.  Being a paper crafter helped me create themed parties on a budget.  They weren't quite as fancy as this, but they were always fun. 

I played with some new and retired thin cut dies from Close to My Heart, as well as my new Celebrate die from Scrapbook and Cards Today.  More information is at the end of this post.

I used lots of different elements in the shaker balloon.  These include both silver and gold star confetti, clear loose gems, and bright and bold bitty beads (all from CTMH).  These were small enough to move about freely in the smaller shaker window that the balloon provided.  

Here's a list of those dies I mentioned before -

Close to My Heart - Stitched Lattice background thin cut die, Round Balloon thin cut dies, For You thin cut dies, Small Circle Shaker Window thin cut die, Small Circle Shaker Window Foam & Acetate 

Scrapbook and Cards Today - Celebrate die

Thanks for stopping my corner of blogdom.  I hope you have fun creating a festive project!