Celebrating 80 Years & Fabulous! | Ally’s Angels Anything Goes Challenge
Hello crafty friends! It’s time for another Anything Goes Challenge over at the Ally’s Angels Challenge Blog , and today I’m sharing a very special card that I created for a dear friend who is celebrating her 80th birthday this year! Since this was such a milestone birthday, I knew an ordinary card simply wouldn’t do. I wanted to create something big, dimensional, and worthy of celebrating 80 fabulous years! For the card base, I used the original Show Stopper dies from Made to Surprise . This die set creates such an impressive dimensional card with all of those wonderful stepped sections. There are so many little areas to decorate, which gave me plenty of opportunities to mix patterned papers, embellishments, and metallic accents. I chose a warm autumn-inspired color palette for this card, combining pretty fall foliage papers with plaid and shades of dusty blue, rust, cream, green, and gold. I especially love how the gold matting throughou...
