Birthday Sweet peas

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 I'm guest designing for the Allsorts challenge 796 this week with a floral birthday card. The challenge is to "add a sentiment."

 I dug deep into my stash and found this pretty Flourishes Sweet Pea stamp. Sadly Flourishes closed quite some time ago but this stamp still looks as pretty as ever.  I stamped the card base with the Sweet Pea image as well as another panel which I cut with a Cheery Lynn Designs French Lattice cover plate and then carefully placed it over the card base, matching up all the images as closely as possible. I colored everything with Copics and added lots of tiny black Nuvo Dots before adding a pre-printed Simon Says Stamp birthday sentiment. This was the first time I tried this technique and I love how it turned out. 

Also sharing with these challenges:

Triple B August 2024 Challenge - birds butterflies, blooms - use 1, 2 or all 3

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - A/G

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge #20 - A/G Floral with optional mood board

Thanks for stopping by and I look forward to seeing the gallery filled with your designs with sentiments for this week's challenge.

Carol

Sunflower Birthday Card

 This birthday card has been sent and received so it's time to share it. I used a SSS sunflower die, adding some color with Copics to the colored cardstock, and embossing the center with a swiss dots ef. The scalloped curvy border die is from SSS and the papers are (r) from SU!. The little dragonfly and butterfly were done with Sweet n Sassy Stamps and I added a couple gemstones just for fun.

I'll enter this card into the following challenges:

the Four Seasons August 2023 Challenge - A/G summer

The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge - A/G with flowers *optional mood board

The Triple B August Challenge - Birds, Blooms, Butterflies, 1, 2 or all 3

the Double D Challenge - Sunflowers

Thanks for stopping by and may you have a great day filled with lots of fun things to do.

Carol

Thinking of You

 This card was made from snippets found in my large stash of leftover bits and pieces. The brown panel was embossed with a Tasteful Textiles EF from SU! and the flowers were cut with a Memory Box Prim Poppy die. The lightly textured tan panel was saved from a pile of note cards my mother had with her name printed at the top. I added some pink Nuvo drops for the finishing touch and added this to a pink card base.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

The Allsorts Challenge week #737 - A/G or use this mood board

Can You Handle the Pressure - use an embossing folder A/G * twist of stars

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge #7 - A/G Flowers or use this mood board

The Happy Little Stampers July A/G with Dies Challenge

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day. We're bracing for torrential rains and flooding tomorrow all day long so I'm keeping my fingers crossed 😓

Carol