Our twentieth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is gorgeous grape from the brights collection. I have chosen gorgeous grape, early espresso and granny apple green from the color coach to work with today.
I made today's card for my eldest daughters birthday (she turned 14 last week) and when thinking of what to make for her card, a mobile phone (cell phone) was top of my list. Her mobile is always close by (and if she is not on that it's her laptop!) Teenagers!
I made a shaker panel for the mobile phone portion of the card and again used the retired large number framelits. Don' forget the numbers from the broadway bound speciality designer series paper are a great substitute when you need numbers (except I needed larger numbers for my phone image.) I stamped the background with buffalo check in gorgeous grape for some added interest as well. A simple happy birthday sentiment (from picture perfect birthday stamp set) punched out with the classic label punch completed the greeting and finished off the card nicely.
Close up (to see the rest of the bits in the shaker panel)
To create your own mobile phone shaker card, cut a 11.3cm x 6.6cm (4 7/16" x 9/16") rectangle and cut out a 8.7cm x 5.7cm (3 3/8" x 2 1/4") approx. 1cm (3/8") from the top. Mat it on a 12cm x 7.2cm (4 3/4" x 2 3/4") rectangle. Round all the corners if you wish.
Use punched circles to create a button at the bottom of the phone (I used a 3/8" circle and one from the owl punch, sadly both retired Stampin' Up! punches).
To complete the inside of the card, I googled and found a verse that had words about Facebook and Twitter but Nikki doesn't use those. I modified it to read what she does you and included this inside the card:
"I thought about texting you, snapchatting you or tagging you on Instagram, but some things are better the old-fashioned way… so I emailed you instead!"
Made both her and I giggle and she appreciated my lack of social media tagging.
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Ros, this is so clever and I love your sentiment inside...it gave me good giggle too! Thanks for hopping along tonight.
Posted by: Catherine Proctor | October 16, 2018 at 08:09 PM
I have 30 grand children, someone is almost always turning 14. What did you use to cut the rectangle from your black cs? I do love this card! What a great idea. I love it so much, I want to CASE it! Thank you so much for sharing your daughter's birthday card with us!
Posted by: Gloria Sperring | October 17, 2018 at 02:27 PM
What a great teenage card. I love it Ros.
Posted by: Diane Furniss | October 17, 2018 at 04:55 PM
What a cool card for your teenager and your sentiment made me laugh 😂
Too clever!
Posted by: Kate Morgan | October 17, 2018 at 08:47 PM
Gloria,
You could use the the retired horizontal slot punch to create the “hole" for the black rectangle.
Posted by: Ros Davidson | October 17, 2018 at 08:55 PM
LOL, very cool! I love the saying you found and modified for the inside. I'm a bit of a sisal media dinosaur too, so I'm sure my daughter would laugh at me.
Posted by: Tina Gillespie | October 17, 2018 at 09:51 PM
What a great card - I love it Ros! Perfect colour combination, granny green and purple - oh my - just gorgeous. I love the mobile phone!
Posted by: Caroline | October 23, 2018 at 09:08 AM