Catalogue Card Reinvention

I spent last weekend on Vancouver Island visiting my mom for her birthday. It was a very last minute trip since my dad thought at the last minute he would like to have a party for my mom, and it turned out to be a surprise party since it was so last minute that no one had time to spill the beans! It was nice to go over and spend time with them and my brother, our significant others were not able to come due to the spur of the moment nature of it all.

As always my brother did not have a card (he did come up with a tasty present though) so I let him sign my card. This is the one that 'we' gave to my mom. You may recognize it from various places in the catalogue but this one had slight modifications. I really liked the one in the catalogue but I didn't have any textured cardstock so I used regular Kiwi Kiss and Very Vanilla CS. I distressed around some of the edges and used the paper piercing template and a pin (I don't have the authentic pointy thing since it doesn't come in the mat pack) for the other edges. I also didn't have the same ink colours but I do have the Rich Regal Stampin' Spots so I used those for the flowers (Rose Red and Regal Rose) and then cut them out and affixed them. The Rich Regals ribbon colours were too dark I thought to go nicely with the Kiwi Kiss CS so I chose the Pretty in Pink Grosgrain instead. I like that it all goes really well together but it doesn't 'match'. Stampin' Up! does such a nice job of making all their colours work together regardless of colour family.

I think if I make this card again I will put the tree off to the left instead of centered so I can have the greeting all on the very vanilla piece. I think that would make for a more even look, but other than that I am very pleased with how it turned out.