Sunday, November 03, 2013

Happy Birthday Tracey!


Today is Tracey McNeeley's birthday, and Joyce of Cards-by-the-sea has organised a birthday linky party, so here's a card from me to wish you happy birthday, Tracey, and to thank you for your many kind words on your visits to my blog.

As usual, I've combined a few challenges:

CASology, where the cue word is black,


Less is More, where the challenge is a dark background with a splash of colour,


And Paper Smooches SPARKS, where there is a picture challenge.


Can't see the Paper Smooches connection?  Purple, green and everything in between.  Sequins for water droplets.  Paper Smooches stamps (To, You, snipped from Sentiment Sampler and Simply Said and embossed with metallic purple powder).  The word dies (Memory Box) were cut from a leftover piece of Creative Chemistry 102 homework - alcohol inks.

Pop over to Joyce's blog to see the ever-growing gallery of birthday cards.

15 comments:

  1. Hola Shirley, beautiful card simply perfect.
    Hugs from Palma

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  2. Shirley, Tracey is sure to love this! Great take on all the challenges, too...so glad you played along with us at CASology!

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  3. Expert job of making a stunning CASlicious card for Tracey that works for all these current challenges, Shirley! She will love it!! Hugs, Darnell

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  4. ooh woow you combine this card for five challenges...clever...really clever..and love the bling on your black card...lovely Idea Shirley Bee...

    I just put my card on CASology blog challenge if you would like to see it on my Blog and leave me some love... I would be so happy...big hugs from Germany...Monika

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  5. I saw the connection..... Love the blend of colours going through the lettering and they really stand out against the black too :0)
    Thanks for playing along at PS Sparks this week :0)
    Jenny x

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  6. Shirley this is fabulous! I love the way you blended the colours through the sentiment. Thank you so much for joining my linky party, your beautiful cad means ever so much to me. I am so overwhelmed today, in a very good way. Thank you so much for joining us this week at CASology as well!

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  7. So striking and beautiful. This card is very very elegant. Thank you so very much for joining in on all the fun for Tracey's birthday linky party.

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  8. Such a happy card, love the sequin dotting the I!!

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  9. So cool and gorgeous, Shirley, love the graduating colour against the dark background! Anita :)

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  10. This looks fab Shirley!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  11. Fun party card - that is one super fine die. Wow. Love the purples with the black.

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  12. OHHH! I LOVE the black background with the beautiful colors on top! FAB!! THANKS so much for playing along with the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge! Hope you join in the fun this week for the STRIPE trend watch challenge;)

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  13. OMG! What a fun card, Shirley!

    I wanted to stop by and thank you for the lovely comment you left on my final Moxie Fab World blog post. I had such an incredibly good time in the Moxie Fab World, and I'm *so glad* I got to know you there! Hugs and loves to you, my moxie fab friend! :)

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  14. Another fabulous card for another fabulous person! Love the variegated colors in the sentiment and the bit of sparkly purple!

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  15. Such a beautiful card, Shirley! I love how you created the graduated color on your die cut sentiment...so pretty! Great card for combining all of these challenges, and perfect for Tracey's birthday!

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