Another Sibling Birthday

Hubs' family seems to be having lots of events lately. The next card is for his other sister's birthday.


I've had these Stamping Bella Ketto stamps for a few months now and decided to ink up Ginger Ketto to use on the card. But alas, look what happened when I stamped it out:





EEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!! It had 2 blemishes!!!!!!!!!! What....???!!! Aaaaaarrrgghhh!!!


So I had to scrap using Ginger until I could get a replacement from Stamping Bella and use Yoko & Ono instead. They are just as cute, but I really wanted to use Ginger. Lame.

The layout is an old old old Taylored Expressions sketch. Like...from 2008, I think. Before I even knew Taylored Expressions, PTI, Stamping Bella, and The Greeting Farm existed. In other words, in my richer days. hehe... But I must say, the quality of my card-making has gone WAY UP, so it's a good trade-off. :)


Anyhoo, I cut the shape that Yoko & Ono are stamped on using Nesties Labels 9. The design paper is random origami paper that I have. I paper pieced Yoko (the girl in the forefront which I'm calling Yoko b/c she's in the front, and therefore first; hence she's Yoko) using the same pink origami paper as the background. Ono's dress is paper pieced using the same color of cardstock used for the card...um...Memory Box...Eggshell! That's it! I tried paper piecing it with the same darker strip of origami paper but I couldn't where the dress lines stamped out on (black ink on black origami paper doesn't work...doi). Finished it off with some more of the fabu Michael's ribbon and topped it with another PTI button (possibly Melon Berry, I dunno, it came as part of the Spring button mix).


Stamps: Stamping Bella Yoko & Ono
Ink: VersaFine black
Paper: Memory Box notecard, PTI black, origami paper
Accessories: Nesties Labels 9, Michael's ribbon, PTI button, Memory Box jewel stickers, Midori jeweled flower sticker