Have a SPEC-tacular Birthday card

This card I whipped up for a friend features the Cheers to You Ladies digital stamp from Pattie's Creations. I love the specs on these ladies. But, hold on...are sunglasses considered spectacles? I hadn't really thought about that when I came up with the idea for this card. 

To be sure, I looked up the definition for spectacles and it says, "...a pair of glasses for correcting defective vision. Often (informal) shortened to: specs." So...in case you're wondering, all three of these ladies are wearing corrective vision transition eyeglasses. Specs it is!

I've had this Artemio eyeglasses die for the longest time. I picked it up for a song in my favorite outlet shop. I was glad to finally use it. That long strip down the middle is a no-brand die set I bought last year. These extra long dies cut strips the length of a slimline card, which is the reason I bought them, thinking they'd be nice decoration in lieu of ribbon. Although I used one small strip on the bottom edge of this masculine windsurfer card and to give a bit of color inside a card at the bottom of the sentiment page, I've yet to use them on a slimline card.

Paper is from a pad I picked up in a grocery store discount bin. Enamel dots give a decorative touch. Sentiment was created with Annie BTN font.

Supply List
Paper – cardstock, discount paper pad
Digital stamp – Patties Creations Cheers to You Ladies
Dies – Artemio spectacles, Die-namics rectangle stax and banners, no-brand long strip dies
Embellishments – enamel dots
Font – Annie BTN 
Spectrum Noir Illustrator alcohol ink markers
Art-n-Fly white pen

I'm linking up with:  As You Like it Challenge 17 February – Favorite Occasion and Why (My favorite occasions are birthdays. I like that birthdays celebrate one specific person. And too, there are more birthdays in the year than any other occasion, so lots of reasons to make a card!), Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #191 – ATG, Addicted to Stamps and More #423 – Birthdays, Fab 'n' Funky #545 – Birthdays, Creative Knockouts #441 – ATG, Krafty Chicks Challenge #600 – All Occasions, and Seize the Birthday #233 – ATG Birthday.

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