Friday, April 23, 2010

Celebrate Life



I have a lot of birthday cards to make over the next couple of weeks. When I saw this fantastic quote about celebrating your life from Oprah Winfrey, I thought it would make a great birthday card. This sentiment was a free download from Raindrop Echo Designs for Whimsy Stamps.

If you like this sentiment, you also might want to check out Ann's new challenge blog, Sentimental Sundays. She has basic sentiments set which is available for free download.
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I added the brownish pearls at the very end. I have been saving these, who knows for what, but now I actually used them on a project. I am challenging myself to continue to use all these "special" things that I have stashed. They aren't too special when they are sitting in their packaging where no one can enjoy them.

** Updated - I was in the super 6 for the Card Patterns Sketch #60

I hope you have a great day!


Challenges for this card:

Supplies:

  • Image: Word Art/Sentiment Celebration Sentiments by Raindrop Echo Designs
  • Papers & CS: Perfect Day paper pack from Close To My Heart, white cs for card base from Stampin' Up
  • Inks: None
  • Tools & Embellishments: Spellbinders Nestabilities, lace, DMC floss, Kaiser pearls, Prima flower, Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip marker, paper piercer
  • Techniques: Faux stitching

25 comments:

Scrap It Girl, Kimberly said...

this is one of my favorite cards..love the paper, super cute!

sarahw said...

Cheryl, this is just beautiful. I copied the quote and put it in my notebook. Thanks for the inspiration. :)

Maria@Crafty Cre8tions said...

This is a terrific quote and you know what? It was INSIDE my Dove candy yesterday as one of their quotes!! How weird is that?
I ate two candies...and the other one said "Volunteer from your heart" and I had just left the Humane Society where I volunteer and a photographer that was taking pictures of me for a story that will run in our local paper!!! WOW - very weird coicidences going on!!!
Thank you for Jackie's blog adress too - I will go visit her now :)
Maria

whoistracy said...

Cheryl this is gorgeous! Love the colors and that fabulous DP you used. What a great card.

raindropecho said...

Just beautiful, Cheryl! I must say, you are a master at using these sentiments. I couldn't envision such prettier cards to use them on. You always blow me away :) Thanks for entering this into the Sentimental Sundays challenges!
- Ann

jjcreations said...

Wonderful card with a great quote. I also like how you've added the cord along the bottom portion.

Random Acts of Krafting said...

Love the lace ribbon here. Makes for a really pretty card. Thank you for playing with us at Practical Scrappers this week.
Hugs
Tanya

Marlene said...

Beautiful card, and lovely quote. Love the colors you used. RICH!

Karin said...

I love cards where the sentiment is the focal point! I just sent one off myself this week :) Great shape on that die cut too!

Dawnll said...

Love the saying and that paper is wonderful.Great job sweetie!

Cindy Haffner said...

BEAUTIFULLY done.

Fleur said...

This is another really pretty card, lovely colours. Really nice sentiment.
Thanks again for joining ALLSORTS this week, Hugs Fleur xxx

Kathy said...

Beautiful quote and card. Love the pearls, so pretty!

dstandard said...

What a beautiful quote and card!

Carmen said...

Great card and I love the saying!

Elizabeth said...

Great quote and a lovely card. The lace is lush

kirsty Vittetoe said...

Very lovely!

Sue Frazier said...

sweet card...love your blog!

Unknown said...

Beautiful card! I love that patterned paper and your layout is fabulous!

Chrissie said...

Great quote, fab papers, beautiful card!
Thanks so much for joining in with our challenge AT MTTC this week! Hope to see you next time!
Chrissie

Unknown said...

Beautiful card!

Jocelyn aka JoBear2 said...

What a great quote and I love how you made it the feature of the card - it deserves to be. Love how you layered the quote with the 3 different nesties - looks gorgeous. The colours have such a lovely, warm, vintage feel about them too. Congrats on being in the Super 6 at Card Patterns - well-deserved :-)

Shelly Schmidt said...

Wonderful card- and thanks for telling me about the freebies- I LOVE her sentiments!

andrea said...

gorgeous card,fab colours and lovely sentiment thankyou for joining us at fab'n'funky this week
andrea

~*~ Sara L. ~*~ said...

Great card! I am trying to find the stamp but I can't find it on the Raindrop Echo designs on Whimsy site. Can you help me with a direct link to it please?