A Freshly Made Birthday Card

I loved the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and it worked out perfectly with the colors this week at the Color Throwdown Challenge.  

I used Close To My Heart's colors of Smoothie, Blush and Bamboo cardstock for my Color Throwdown Colors.  


The flowers from the Card Word Puzzle (C1494) stamp along with Bamboo ink added a nice subtle random stamping effect.  I felt the cardstock alone was just too stark.  But maybe that is me..... I couldn't resist the urge to stamp something!    My "Happy Birthday" sentiment is stamped with the new 4 My Friend (D1510) set. 

I used a combination of Art Philosophy Cricut flowers and a paper flower from the new Paradise Paper Flowers (Z1710).   The flower is topped off with a wooden button  (Z1387) and that ever popular Baker's Twine Paradise Assortment (Z172)!  


Here is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the color inspiration from Color Throwdown:
                 

Comments

  1. Linda CallahanFebruary 18, 2012 at 8:46 PM

    Gorgeous flower - love the way you used these colors! So pretty!

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  2. My Creative SideFebruary 19, 2012 at 7:56 AM

    This is just beautiful! i love that flowers, so soft and elegant!

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  3. Mandy LaCroixFebruary 19, 2012 at 10:15 PM

    LOVE this card!!!

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  4. Jen TimkoFebruary 20, 2012 at 12:02 PM

    Your colors are lovely! What a pretty palette. Great flower. So glad you joined us this week at FMS!

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  5. Kristin EberlineFebruary 20, 2012 at 6:38 PM

    Beautiful! Love your dimensional flower :] Thanks for joining us at the Color Throwdown this week!!

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