Happy Birthday, Pumpkin!

Monday, October 23, 2017

My one and only sweet, amazing, wonderful, and beautiful sister celebrated her birthday this last week! We are only 17 months apart so we were pretty much raised as twins.

I love this girl more than words can say. There are so many things I love about her. She just gets me. I don't even have to say a word and she will know what's on my mind. We have the exact same laugh. Identical. It's scary.

I also love that over the past ten years she has kept every one of the cards I've made her (awww!!) and last night I was able to give her another one to add to the collection.

In all the years I've been stamping I don't remember ever making my sister a "halloweeny" card and since my Spooky Night designer paper has been on my desk staring at me for awhile I thought it was time.

This card is also for two challenges this week! The first challenge is for this week's City Crafters Challenge which is pumpkins! This is also my entry for this week's Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers (congrats Jeanette!). Every week I want to participate and every week something always comes up BUT this week was no excuses, especially when I saw THIS card!

I changed the size of the card (mine is 4x4) and since I do not have any green polka dot patterned paper I opted for the polka dot pattern from the Spooky Night designer series paper pack but the rest of the colors I tried to stay as close to Jeanette's card as possible. I also realized I do not have any sentiments with the word pumpkin in it so I went with a simple Happy Birthday from my Sunshine Sayings stamp set.

The pumpkins are die cut from the Patterned Pumpkins Thinlits and since I have no washi tape that would coordinate, I pulled out some Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon (sorry, it's retired) and attached it with a simple staple.

To add the smallest little bling, I put a black sequin on the orange pumpkin and popped the entire panel up on Stampin' Dimensionals.

I haven't had a chance to stamp in so long and was surprised at how quick this came together! I am hoping to do a matching scrapbook page sometime this week using the same paper. I am now officially in love with this paper. Seriously.