These Happy Days are Yours and Mine (Oh Happy Days!)

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days,

Thursday, Friday, Happy Days,

The weekend comes, my cycle hums

Ready to race to you

These days are ours

Happy and free. (Oh Happy Days)

These days are ours

Share them with me.(Oh baby)

Goodbye grey sky, hello blue,

there's nothing can hold me when I hold you.

feels so right you can't be wrong,

rockin' and rollin' all week long.

Saturday, what a day

Groovin' all week with you

Who doesn't wax nostalgic with a big smile on their face when reminiscing this song? Richie Cunningham, his baby sister Joanie, Potsie, Ralph Malph and The Fonz....Ay!

I literally whipped this card together tonight for the Happy Days 50's Retro Challenge because I had all these solid cardstock scraps at my disposal.  What a difference it makes to re-organize, again, and put away, again, all my scraps in ROYGBV order again! I'm definitely learning to clean up after myself more often during this VSN event.

Note: My reds may be off. My night lamp sucks so I did my best as I'm intent on using up my scraps. So, if they're off a bit, it's good enough for me. 

I merely trimmed down the solid cardstock scraps to mat, and just stamped the two images. Miraculously, I got both images down perfectly on the first try (using wood mounted stamps!).  

The upper left corner of the stamped white cardstock looked a bit empty so I decided to finally use the handmade embellishments I received in a swap a decade ago.   This lovely lady was incredible with her attention to detail and designed an incredible set of 50's themed embellishments.  I think this card was finally worth using her precious hand made items! (Unfortunately, I lost the label with her name on it to credit her properly here in this post.)

Here's my card taken on top of a laundry machine:

I only used two of her photo corners decorated with the vinyl records and her gorgeous pair of furry dice. As you can see, the glue has yellowed and has seeped through to the front due to my many years of storage.   The "yellowing" just adds to the authenticity of the look and feel of the era! 

At the last minute, I decided to dry emboss the diner's blue cardstock panel for interest. 

Here's what the 50's themed Handmade embellishment set looked like.  Yes, I'm a very very lucky lady to have been in this swap. I can't remember what I made, but those were the days when detailed, dimensioned paper pieced stickers were incredibly popular, i.e. Jolee's stickers.  Back in those days, we scrappers were crazy about handmade items to swap!  

Challenges:

1. Challenge Title: Happy Days! 50's Retro Theme
    Hostess: Lisa (aka Shoe Girl)
    Keyword: JUN15VSND

2. Color Throwdown #347 - Colors were a perfect 50's themed palette. 

I definitely had a lot of fun with this card.  Thanks for visiting!





"One is not born a woman, one becomes one" Card
Paper: SU Smooth White; Bazzil CS
Stamps: Renaissance Art Stamps LLC Large Glamour Pin Up; Stampland One is Not Born a Woman
Ink: Momento Black
Embellishments: 50's Themed Embellished Photo Corners and Dice (from a swap return); 
Accessories: Cuttlebug Seeing Spots EF; Dimensional Foam Tape
Size: 4.25" x 5.5" rectangular