Birthday

Here we are at the start of a new week. Seems as though these days just fly by. I used to hear my parents talk about time passing faster, and wondered what the heck are they talking about? We all have the same 24 hrs in a day. I've reached an age where I understand exactly what they meant! When I was waiting to become 16, then 21, seemed like it took forever. Being out of school for the summer was a long, long 3 months. Isn't it strange how your perspective can change???

Here's my card for today:

- Die-Namite Rose die cut from red mirror paper (a snippet). This die cut beautifully, but since it was from thicker paper, I did run it through on 2 passes. Adhered diecut to white card stock with my favorite Easy Flow glue...just dabbing a spot here & there. Let it dry, then fussy cut around the outside of the cardstock. I decided to experiment with coloring to get an orange-y rose. I used copics from the yellow, red, orange family of colors, sometimes using a circle motion, sometimes flicking the colors. I think I succeeded in doing what I tried to do for the mottled coloring. I did find that alcohol markers will remove the color from the mirror paper. Didn't know that would happen.

- leaves were die cut from 2 different Impression Obsession leaf sets (more green snippets) in 2 different greens. I used the new Sizzix Susan's Garden Accesory Kit. I had this on order from Scrapbooking Made Simple but happened to see it in Hobby Lobby after I had ordered it. Had a coupon, so snarfed it up; called SMS & asked them to remove it from my pending order. They were very cooperative about this, which pleased me. :-) . Dabbed 2 different green shades of Pan Pastel on the leaves, used the leaf tool to shape, and added a more distinctive center vein with a copic green marker. Glued the leaves under the rose, adhered to a pearlized yellow background. The photo doesn't really capture the pretty yellow shade. Gotta be the Operator.

- Elizabeth Craft sentiment diecut from the same red mirror paper as the rose - snippet - a very tiny one! That's one other reason I love these small dies...you can use up small snippets.

There's a story behind my recent orange rose efforts. Years ago, we visited FDR's home (Springwood) in Hyde Park, NY. While in the rose garden, we saw the most beautiful orange rose bush..it was so vibrant, and the roses were like velvet texture. I've never seen another that shade of orange. And of course I didn't make note of the name of this particular rose bush. We've some roses planted off our deck and I keep trying to get one that color. Several were supposed to be in the coral/orange family, but ...sigh, not the color I'm trying for.

Have a blessed day, and thanks for joining me. Hugs.