You're only a Kid Once

Wow, another birthday in my craft group. I'm having fun making these "old" cards:) This one today I will enter at Card Patterns for sketch #161.

The sketch: 

My card:

The DP is My Mind's Eye Street Market-love this double sided cardstock! I recently bought somemore of it on clearance at Michaels-I wouldn't want to run out! I stamped the image (from Inkadinkadoo mini stamp set) with Memento Rich Cocoa on Gina K white cardstock (such nice cardstock!). I added the birds from Close to My Heart "summer Breeze" stamped with Tuxedo Black ink.  I colored with Copic markers, adding in the sky and watter. I cut it out with Spellbinders Classic Circle dies and matted it, first with some green cardstock, then on a back mat cut with Spellbinders Renaissance hearts. Added some gold corner stickers and a gold sticker border.

For the inside of the card I did the rest of the saying on the computer as the stamped words were waaaaayyy to small-they got lost on the background! I cut the saying out with Spellbinders Big Scalloped Squares and added some of the DP behind it to match the front of the card.

 

Hope you like! Comments always welcome.

Supplies list:
Copics BG72, B000, B93, B45, YG63, V15, RV11, RV95, E00, E33, E42, E51, E84
Stamps: Close to My Heart 'Summer Breeze', Inkadinkadoo-"You're Only a Kid Once"
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tuxedo Black
Paper: My Minds Eye Street Market, Gina K white cardstock, Recollections White Cardstock (card base and inside) Scraps from my scrap box.

Card Patterns 148

Wow, we are getting snowed on today! Was supposed to be only 'light snow showers'! but it's been snowing hard all day. Good day to stay inside and stay warm-and create!
This card is for the sketch challenge over at Card Patterns-#148 . Here is the sketch:



And here is my card:

The DP is is from My Mind's Eye Lost and Found-Madison Avenue 6 x 6 pad. For the focal image I used the new SU Apothecary Art Stamp set and Labels Die set. I stamped the image with Memento Rich Cocoa and colored it with Copic markers,

 then cut it out with the Labels die. I inked around the edge with the green Copic marker. I added  a bit of stardust Stickles to the flowers. I used Spellbinders Parisian Accents dies to cut the accents and border from some pink Bazzil cardstock. The base paper is some Verde Bazzil cardstock. I had first cut the border with the green card and didn't like how that looked so tried the pink. I liked that better, but it still was lacking something. I picked up the little cut outs from the green border and layed them in the openings of the pink border-aha! looked much better. I then added some clear rhinestones to that, and added some of the pink cut outs to the 4 corners. I attached the image panel with foam dimensionals. The butterfly is cut with the EKsuccess butterfly layering punch from some of the MME paper and pink cardstock, glued just in the center, with some clear stones as the body, and attached with a thicker foam square.
The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps. Please leave comments.

Stamps: SU Apothecary Art, ODBD Mini Tags 2
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Copic Markers: E30, R21, R35, Y19, YG91, YG97, O
Cardstock: Bazzil, My Minds Eye
Accessories: Spellbinders Parisian Accents, EK Success Butterfly Layering Punch, rhinestones, Stickles