Without Flowers for a Birthday Card

Seize the Birthday asks for a birthday card sans flowers....it's a challenge but a good one. To create my card, I dug into the remaining stash of wood-mounted stamps for this American Art Stamps image (my wood-mounts are really ancient).   Black and white seemed the right choice, with just a little bit of color added.  (Oops, there is a handful of flowers, but very tiny.)  This card would be appropriate for the right adult.  

 

A Freshly Made Tricky Sketch

I think this might be the first time I've worked with a die cut circle in a card. I modified it slightly for this Freshly Made Sketch.   I pulled out the dies for the flowers and used them to complete the card.  Yellow and black...dry embossed card front and a simple sentiment die cut. 

 

Summer Petals for Sunday Stamps

This was truly one of those "10-minute cards"!  I just had to get started after a month of no crafting and this 3-color challenge for Sunday Stamps worked.   I had just opened a couple of packages of stamping supplies, and the "hello" die was one of them. I have stacks of paper packs and a rainbow one worked beautifully for this particular challenge.   

Embellishments Galore

It's been a month since I've made a card and I am determined to get back into the swing of things. This particular card for The Flower Challenge, turned out as a real challenge for me.  (I wish detailed stamps all came with matching dies!) This card allowed me to use my favorite bright colors and add some jewels and a dimensional butterfly.  

 

Color Hues in Red and White

Red and white are great "firecracker" colors for summer.  In this case, I dug around in my over-filled collection of paper pads for the zigzag pattern.  A 3-D embossing folder created the floral center for this Color Hues challenge. 

 

Three Yellow Poppies

 

A design in threes for Sunday Stamps... a Penny Black cling worked well with just a little change in angle for the poppies.  

 

 

Peachy, peachy!

Color combo challenges aren't my favorites; I just always struggle to find a way to use the colors. This particular Sunday Stamps palette was different for me...primarily because I was attracted to the shades of orange with the blue.  In fact, I cut the leaves before I did anything else and then worked to determine what else I needed. It was a piece of DSP with swirls of the colors that made it possible to use the die cut. Backwards, but it worked. And with this card, I inched back into card-making after many weeks of traveling.