A never- ending job

.....eventually turned into a never-ending birthday card for Livi! I almost lost the will to live making it, it took ages, but soldiered on - it's bright at least :))

The front, followed by:

The inside, before I wrote our message, followed by:

being flipped around, followed by:

another view from the top - showing the 'birthday number 2'. This was sent to me by Sarn using the Hippy Chick die - and, I seem to be haunted by the colour, I used an aubergine Pro Marker to colour it to match the papers! Sarn to the rescue once again - thank you so much :))

I used:

- purple card stock for the basis of the card itself

- orange card stock for some of the panels

- Katy Knight 'Totally Tropical' Summer papers, free with Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine a little while back

- a topper by LOTV from their previous range of Cute Squares

- butterflies and sentiment from a Craftwork Cards goody bag that I finally sorted through a couple of weeks ago.

I just managed to squeeze the card into an envelope designed for an 8" x 8" card - so it's going to stand out amongst all Livi's other cards, for its size and brightness at least :))

I'll let you know if we get any photos of the Birthday Baby. Yes, Livi is the little one with curly auburn hair who loves buttons and seems destined to be an engineer of some sort when she grows up. I bet she has this card apart to see how it works in a lot less time than it took to make!

The diamante hearts arrived here yesterday - they're so cute and sparkly. So, it's wagons roll onto the next stage of assembling the Save the Date cards - once I do a supermarket run else someone here could be found slumped in front of the fridge door semi-comatose (a last minute big word sneaked in there) - looking for something to eat :))

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Never ending birthday card

I have a friend who is also into cardmaking and has followed me into making kenetic cards, easel cards and twisted easel cards. I've got few few more ideas up my sleeve and as it's her birthday next week I wanted to give her a new challenge to try out - wicked girl that I am! Luckily she's currently in Spain (hopefully sunning herself and going nowhere near a PC) and doesn't get home until late at night on the day before her birthday so I can post this early!

My first attempt at assembling a never ending card went into the bin, I made a real pigs ear of it - thankfully before I even got beyond the initial stage. This one worked fine though - much to my relief 'cos I hate to be beaten. The papers are all from a 'Celebrations' paper pad by Paper Cellar so they co-ordinated pretty well The sentiment is a SU one, 'The more candles the bigger the wishes'.

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