Grandma's 100th Birthday

We have had a milestone birthday and a half this week as Paul’s Grandma was 100 on Monday. This is the card I made for her in celebration of this most special of birthdays.

Grandma always hates it when her birthday is on a card but I figured that if your reach 100 there is no way you are going to keep that secret is there?

The image is from Digstamps 4 Joy. In September I was very lucky to have won $10 to spend in their store from a draw of their followers on Facebook and as soon as I saw this I knew it had to go in my shopping basket in preparation for this auspicious occasion.

I selected some papers and flowers from 2 different pads by Craftwork Cards that I got in the recent sale. From this I then coloured the image in Promarkers & Flexmarkers adding lots of glitter with Stickles glue, boy was I happy that it has such a fine nozzle as some of the areas were tiny, even with the large size I printed it out.

I used a sketch from the last challenge at Wags n Whiskers for the layout, fully intending to get this posted on my blog earlier in the week but to be completely honest I was pooped out from running around after 40 oldies, serving drinks and cleaning up for over 5 hours after being at work earlier in the day. It was however completely worthwhile as Grandma had the most wonderful time and was proudly showing off her telegram from the Queen J

I added a doily which was from a magazine freebie and I punched a heart using my favourite Martha Stewart punch. The lattice got lost on the doily so I added it to some gold card and cut around it. A little bit of stickles and a green gem on the large flower and the front was finished.

I don’t normally decorate the inside but felt this occasion called for it. I used some more of the papers adding punched borders by Fiskars and Martha, another lattice heart, some layered flowers and some patterned Candi, lots of Craftwork Cards goodies on this little beauty.

Grandma absolutely loved it. She likes my cards anyway so I wanted to make this more special for her adding lots of flowers and using her favourite colours. We took lots of photos and are working on a special scrapbook style photo album for her which incorporates memorabilia from the 2 day celebration along with lots of the images. 

This is the message I put together in her album so we gave it to her and then literally took it back with us. It's a standing joke that in this age of technology she doesn't get to 'hold real photos' anymore as you rarely print out digital photos.

The love Frame is from Daisy’s Digi Doodles and the extra heart is a PNG brush  from a set called Aunt Elizabeth which is a current freebie from Scrap n Fonts

Here is a photo of Grandma with the telegram from The Queen, 

both ladies look bloody good for their ages! 

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – 8” Square

Image/Sentiment – 100 Years Old by Digistamps For Joy

Love Frame - With Love by Daisy’s Digi Doodles

Heart Brush - Aunt Elizabeth Freebie from Scrap n Fonts

Papers, Flowers & Candi – Craftwork Cards

Embellishments – Stickles Glitter glue, Paperchase gems, Dovecraft Gems & Pearl

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Fiskars punch, Martha Stewart punches, god gel pen

Techniques - Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

613 Avenue Create – #5 Anything Goes (Twist Love)

Addicted To Stamps - #49 Pearls & Swirls

Cards & More - #75 Love or Valentine

Catch The Bug – Affairs of the Heart

Catered Crop – Polka Dots

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

Corrosive Challenge - #167 Hearts & Flowers

Crafting Café – Anything Goes

Crafty Blogger’s Network - #8 Anything Goes

Crazy Amigo Challenge – Hearts

Crazy Challenge - #138 Birthday

Creative Stamp Friends - #70 Hearts or Valentine

Di’s Digi Designs – Valentines/Love

Digistamps 4Joy - #60 Love or Romance ~~ Store Digi ~~

Diva’s By Design – Winged Things

Eureka Stamps  – #25 Sweet Hearts

Everybody Art – #222 Hearts

Forever Friends Monthly – Animals/Butterflies/Birds

Freshly Brewed Designs - #2 Hearts & Dots

Gingerloft - #56 Love Is In The Air

Great Impressions Stamps – Include a Heart

Heck of A Challenge – Love & Flowers

Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - #37 Hearts

Incy Wincy Designs – Love is In The Air

Jen’s Digi Stamps – Love

Lady Anne’s Stamp Challenge – Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts – Valentines or Love

Lexi’s Creations - #83 Valentines/Love

Love To Create – #51 Celebrate

Loves Rubber Stamps - #38 Anything Goes

Mema’s Crafts – Hello Doily

Nana Vic’s – Anything Goes

Natalie & Amy’s Challenge - #6 Something Old (punch & digi) & New (flowers & paper)

One Crazy Stamper – Love

One Stop Crafts - #215 Love is In the Air

Order of the Opus Gluei - #149 Bring on the Bling

Paper Playtime - #3 Border Punches

Platypus Creek - #25 Pretty Feminine Birthday card

Sandy’s Crafty Creations – Anything Goes for a Birthday

Scrapper’s Delight – Love With Red & Pink

Scrappy Frogs – Red or Pink

Simon Says Stamp – Have a Heart

Stamp Your Life - #3 Love

Sweet Pea Stampers – Use a Digi

Totally Gorjuss  – #170 Love

Visible Image - Love

Word Art Wednesday - #66 Anything Goes