90th Birthday with Altenew

Happy Monday!  I was asked to create a card for a family members 90th Birthday, and as I was looking around for some inspiration I came across the latest Altenew Challenge and I immediately had an idea, so I went with it...

To create this card I used the Altenew Beautiful Day Stamp Set.  I started by embossing all of my images onto a heavy weight vellum with Gold embossing powder.  I then colored them all in with various Copic Markers, using the colors in the Inspiration photo.  Once they were colored I fussy cut everything out and started arranging them onto my cardbase.  I also die cut some numbers in gold foil.  Tips about coloring on vellum: Use darker colors than you might think if you want them to really show through, also give the coloring some time to dry before adding the next color.  Here is a close up of the shine...

I wish I had better photos to share with you of this card, and how beautiful it is in person but unfortunately it needed to go out in the mail right away and it just so happened to be a stormy day, so I had no luck with lighting.  However, the point of this card is to make someone happy and I'm sure it will have done just that.

Thanks so much for popping by today and Happy Crafting!
Lisa