Whew.....Lonnnngggggg Night...

I had a challenge to create a birthday card for a co-workers daughter who is in a sorority.....hummmmmmmmmmmm....I definately wanted to make it unique but what to do....Well they told me the name of her sorority "Chi Omega" and her favorite color is pink.....soooooo....I went from there......

I researched and found the symbols representing the sorority and found the sign and symbol and had a blast.....I found the image of the owl and converted it to an svg cutting file and cut it with my cricut as well as a shadow image.....then I used Character Map to create the symbols pasted them into my PSP saved as a jpeg and then created an svg cut file in Inkscape...also did a shadow of it as well.......the Happy Birthday and Ana were easy peasy of course created cut and cut shadow of them as well.....

Then for the paper....hummmmmmmmmm, what did I want to do there....well I decided to take the images I created and found and made them into brushes in PSP and then used the brushes to create the symbols on the paper I created.......I'm tickled that created everything from scratch and quite proud of it I might add!!! :)

I decided to run the symbol through my sizzix machine and used my Happy Birthday embossing folder then hit the raised spots with a Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad....I also distressed the edges of the background layer and the symbol with a distress tool and then touched the edges with the same ink pad......

I then decided I wanted ribbon on the card so I wrapped around the 2 top layers and then used a ribbon punch to make the slots to string the ribbon through....brought up through the opening of the symbol.....On the Owl layer I wadded the shadow layer up crumpled several times then hit with the same distress ink pad and then spritzed with some of my pearl ex spritzer and ironed flat....has a nice effect with the background of the owl!!!


For the inside of the card I used the same paper pattern I designed and lighted the opacity of the design and printed on to a pink paper as well as added a new brush of each of the symbols....I think it gives the card the finishing touch don't you!!!

I thought perhaps some of you may be interested in the symbols I created svg files for so I'm sharing them with you....as usual you can either click on the image to download or the indicated area below....

Download: here

Download: here

Ok.......guess I better get myself ready to leave for work....Just was so excited about this I wanted to be sure to share with you....I hope you like it as much as I do....I want to THANK YOU for stopping by to visit with me and do hope you come by again!!!! I hope you all have a very blessed day!!! Until then.....