Saturday, January 28, 2012

Birthday Bling

One of my 'special peeps' at the college just turned 22. This is her fourth and final year at Briar Cliff University. I've made her a birthday card each year of her residence on campus. I will really miss her when she graduates in May. She will be attending medical school in the fall but I'm sure we will keep in touch if only through Facebook. It is such a privilege and so much fun being a part of students' lives!

Sherin has a love of Jasmine in Disney's Aladin, she LOVES bling, she tutored my granddaughter, she studies hard, is close to her family, and is just an all around good kid! She stopped by the other day to tell me she bought a dress at Charlotte Russe...well it is technically a dress...and it will be adorable on her...to me it resembles a lycra leg warmer! She decided the straplessness and skin tight gathers in a bright royal blue isn't quite eye popping enough so she bought tubes of E-6000 glue and thousands of shimmery blingy rhinestones. She is in the process of gluing the sparklies to the bodice of the dress. As I said it will be adorable on her.

Needless to say - she is a girl who likes her bling. So in honor of the dress and her birthday I made this card just for her!






Bling it Up
~Base card blue iridescent cardstock
~Layers of DCWV Nana's Kids design cardstock
~Ribbon
~Flower button with metallic floss
~Pink cardstock scallop circle - Spellbinder's die cut and Cuttlebug
~White cardstock scallop circle - popped up using dimensional
~Stamp from the dollar bin at Michael's by Sarah Beise, colored using Prismacolors and Copics - highlighted with Stickles and rhinestones
Challenges
City Crafter - sketch
DYSU - ribbon

Happy Birthday Sherina!
Thanks for clicking by,
Nancy in Iowa

10 comments:

  1. Super cute card!! Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up. Hugs, Joan

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  2. Nancy, this is adorable!! She's going to really get a kick out of the sparkly blue dress and know she's going to love it! Don't you just love the younger generation sometimes!
    Fun and pretty, pretty, card!
    Lynn

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  3. What a darling card!!! LOVE your blinged out dress--it's fabulous! :) LOVE it!!!

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  4. This is sweet, thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  5. Fabulous card. Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.

    -Wenche

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  6. How perfectly lovely ... that's one super dress ... many thanks for playing along at CCCB

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  7. Just so perfect is your card:) Sandra H

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  8. So simple and sweet.. I love it.. Thanks so much for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  9. This is fabulous! love the sparkle on the paper and the pretty dress!
    Thanks for joining us at DYSU this week!

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  10. Hi Nancy
    Love this card and all the bling.
    Thanks for joining us at DYSU this week.
    Denise xx

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