Birthdays! @ Dragonfly Dreams

I was given the opportunity to be a Guest Designer at

and I accepted, of course!  This month the challenge is "Birthdays!" and I think we all know someone who has one of those.  With my GDT make, I decided to answer a very important crafting question which is.....Is there such a thing as too much foil?

And the money shot.....

Well, my opinion on the matter is that there's no such thing as too much foil!  Although, I will say that getting a worthy photo of a foiled creation is pretty much impossible.  I will also say that I was surprised, and quite impressed, with the fact that the stripes on the candles actually showed with the foiling....I never even thought that'd be an option.  I intended this to be an inlaid die card.....but I messed that up.  I thought it would be cool to slightly offset the white backing cardstock die cut and then slightly offset the black backing cardstock die cut.  Yeah, it would be cool...if I wasn't trying to fit the die cut back into the original spot!  D'oh!  Add to that the fact that I forgot to keep track of the cut outs under the H, A and P and was too lazy to search my incredible messy desk.  I remembered I had bought some foil cardstock and decided to use it behind the sentiment instead.  Then I decided that it needed a little somethin' more and went with adding the 'to you'.  And then I decided the plain black 'to you' didn't look right so I foiled it too - ha!  And that, my friends, is how you make a totally total foiled card.  (:

Thanks so much to Dragonfly Dreams for inviting me to join them!  If you would like to join the challenge, you can head to their blog.  While you're there, be sure to check out the fabulous makes from the DT.

My Time to Craft:  use die cuts

Simon Says:  anything goes

Crafty Calendar:  anything goes

Crafty Chicks:  anything goes

Seize the Birthday:  anything goes birthday