Freshly Made Sketches.....Happy Birthday

Happy Thursday peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

This week is a very special week over there, it is their 200th Sketch and they are Celebrating!!

They have a great sketch and tons of prizes up for grabs!!

So I had to play along!

I pulled out my Stampin Up set Celebrate

Today with it's matching framelits to make my card. This is a perfect set for a Celebration!

I stamped my Balloon with Watermelon Wonder ink and used Rose Red ink for the confetti inside the balloon.

I used the matching die to cut out the balloon. The banner and bow is cut out using some gold foil paper.

I stamped the tail directly onto my card using Watermelon Wonder ink. 

I stamped the sentiment from the Happy Birthday, Everyone stamp set with Black Memento ink across the bottom of my panel.

I then cut it apart and layered a piece of the In Colors Envelope Paper behind my main panel.

The base of the card is the Stampin Up Thick Whisper White card stock.

The balloon is on dimensionals. I added the gold bow and banner to the balloon with glue. I then pulled a few gold sequins off  the string it comes on in the Gold Trim  and that gave me the idea to use that string for the string on my Balloon.

I added a  gold few sequins to finish it up.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

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Sweet Sunday...Happy Birthday

Happy Sunday Peeps!!

Time for a new sketch at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge Blog

Here is our sketch for you this week:

This is a great sketch to use some of those big bold sentiments that are popular right now.

I pulled out my Stampin Up Hostess set called Happy Birthday Everyone for my sentiment.

The gorgeous DSP is from the Painted Petals 6 x 6 paper pad.

I pulled the colors from the paper and used Basic Black and Calypso Coral along with some Very Vanilla for my card.

The sentiment is stamped with Black Memento ink onto the Vanilla card stock and then matted with some Coral card stock.

I added the small wide banner at the bottom in Coral as well.

I then used my Butterfly thinlit and Bold Butterfly dies to cut out my Butterfly layers. I added the butterfly at the top corner of the sentiment piece to represent the circle in the sketch.

I added three basic pearls down the butterfly center.

This card came together very quickly and was probably one of the quickest cards I have ever put together, I am a fairly slow stamper, (like molasses really) and generally angst over all my details, but I just decided to go simple with this and let the DSP do all the work.

Be sure to head over to the Sweet Sunday Blog to see what the rest of the girls did with this fun sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Freshly Made sketches.....Happy Birthday

Happy Friday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sketch this week at the Freshly Made Sketches Blog:

I had fun with this sketch, I did not use squares as shown in the sketch graphic, but opted for some pretty blue flowers and some circles.

I stamped two of the flowers from the Garden in Bloom set using some Marina Mist ink and then used black on the outline stamp.

I used Wild Wasabi for the leaves and some Daffodil Delight for the flower centers and the butterfly.

The sentiment is from the Hostess set called Happy Birthday, Everyone I love this big sentiment and it was perfect for this card.

The circle elements behind the flowers are made using my circle dies stacked together.

I cut two open circle and then cut them apart and tucked them in around the flowers.

I added a few basic rhinestones around the flowers and down the middle of the little butterfly.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki