Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Dogwood Birthday


 I unearthed this stamped image that I've had for years and decided it was long overdue to make it into a card. I'd previously made the card base with some dark purple cardstock and 4 strips of colored cardstock that I cut from leftover snippets. I lined them up into an embossing folder and afterward spaced them evenly on the card base and then covered it all up with the image panel. 😄 I colored the image with Copics and glaze pens then die-cut it with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle. I added a sponged, punched butterfly with a pink gemstone, drawing in the antennae with a fine black marker. The sentiment was pre-printed from SSS.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

The Triple B June Challenge - Birds, Butterflies, and/or Blooms


Seize the Birthday Challenge #262 - Make it Pop or A/G Birthday

Allsorts Challenge Week #731 - Use Your Dies *Option A/G

Thanks for stopping by today and I wish you all a great day!
Always remember to keep smiling 😁
Carol

19 comments:

Donna said...

Fabulous card, your dogwoods are colored beautifully and the background is stunning! Of course I like the darling butterfly too!

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

I don't know why you didn't used this image for so long, I find it fabulous and love so much how you coloured it! And I have to say that your use of the stripes looks very interesting!!! They give an extra gear to the flowers without distract too much! I have to remember this trick, thank you :)! Absolutely sweet colours and the delicious butterfly sow your fabulous skill to add only one little embellishment to make the whole design just perfect!! Very well done!
Heartfelt hugs dear Carol!! God blessings and happiness for today and the days ahead!

jimlynn said...

Totally beautiful! It's always good to find those stamps we haven't used in forever. I love this image and the panels behind it are so pretty with the embossing. Beautiful colors and coloring too.
Lynn

Irish Cherokee said...

Love the attention to detail. The blend of color is perfect. The image was colored perfectly. The butterfly is the perfect final touch.

Hugs and Blessings

Glenda J said...

Such a pretty card - great colour combo and fabulous texture. Love that gorgeous butterfly too. Thanks for playing along with Seize the Birthday.

crafty-stamper said...

Fabulous card love the embossed strips and beautiful flowers
Carol x

Liz said...

Beautiful card, Carol. The image is so pretty and I love how you've created the background with the embossed panels. Thank you for joining in the Allsorts Challenge this week. Good luck!
Liz xx

brenda said...

A really beautiful floral card, thanks so much for joining us at Allsorts and using the dies option.

B x

Aquarius said...

A very pretty floral stamp

Wendy said...

Gorgeous card, Carol! Love the coloring of your dogwood and the beautiful embossed panels under it! WOW! Whomever receives this beauty is one lucky recipient! Love your motto of the day....keep smiling! Have a wonderful day, my friend! Hugs~

Brenda in IN said...

I love the embossed strips as a background and how can you not love dogwood. A beautiful card.

Faith A at Daffodil Cards said...

Such a gorgeous card, love the embossing and the dogwood flower, just fabulous.
Faith x

Mervi said...

Fabulous card!
Thank you for sharing at Allsorts;-))m

Diane said...

I absolutely LOVE your beautiful dog wood card. I have one dog wood tree left. During the year we bad the polar vortex it killed one of them,so sad as I had a bird feeder in it and it was where the kitties could watch the birds from inside without doing any harm. Sorry about the instagram , I had copied and pasted it to show a friend what they sent to me after suspending my account for saying I had violated their rules, not sure how as all I do there is load my cards up, so in the middle of my doing commenting I copied and pasted that to her, or so I thought lo!!! Thanks so much for joining us at Triple B, such beautiful dogwoods, and honestly, I am really not that crazy, Lol!!





Valerie-Jael said...

Fbulous card, love the dog roses. Hugs, valerie

Lisa said...

Very lovely dogwood image and I love the wonderful sketch you used.

Brenda said...

A gorgeous card Carol, I love those beautiful pastels behind your panel, so pretty embossed too. Even though you mostly covered them, they still catch the eye! I love the dogwood image too, colored so beautifully I might add! Love it! Hugs, Brenda

JD/ Jill said...

Lovely card, Carol!

Paper Therapy Ponderings said...

Beautiful card. Nice to use what we have laying around. I have been doing that the last couple days. Thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers. Barb Housner