Allsorts Challenge #677 - 13th Birthday Challenge

Good morning everyone, and welcome to a very special  Allsorts Challenge. This week we are celebrating the challenge's 13th birthday - woo hoo! So we are having a special celebration with several guest designers and a bumper crop of prizes for a host of lucky winners.

This week's challenge theme is fairly obvious and is

*** Anything For A Birthday ***

Our main prize is a bundle of Sizzix and Paper Boutique coloured card, DP's and Scrapbook kit. 

We also have 13 prizes (1 for each year of our birthday ... did you see what we did there??) of a stamp or stamp set - each one will be a surprise but they are from an assortment of well known brands.

Last but by no means least, Ruth Hamilton Design is offering one lucky winner 3 digi images of their choice from her store.

So … 15 prizes in total !! 😀 I'm sure you'll agree this is a bumper crop ... but you have to be in it to win it, so let everything else wait and get in your craft room !!

So without further ado .... here's my card for this week.

One of my friends very kindly gifted me a Lavinia Stamps voucher for my birthday, and the stamps I chose include,d the beautiful “Honeysuckle” and the cute little bee. I definitely wanted to use them for this challenge, and to give an impression of the honeysuckle climbing against a wall. I was also raring to try out my new Posca sparkle pens which were a birthday gift from another friend, so this card really does incorporate all things birthday !!

I cut a piece of white stamping card and lightly stencilled with a brick wall stencil and Distress Oxide in random patches. I then stamped and heat embossed my honeysuckle several times, then painted with Posca sparkle pens which I tapped onto a piece of spare card then picked up with a fine paintbrush …. I really loved the shimmery look this creates, and even mixed two colours to obtain a more golden green for the leaves.   I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment which was a mixture of words from two different co-ordinating Uniko sets - I think the font compliments the lines of the honeysuckle really well. I then stamped and embossed a couple of bees which I also coloured with Posca sparkle pen, with holographic glitter on the wings. I matted the panel onto black and then pearlescent rose gold cardstock and attached to my 7*5 card base, and finished off with some sparkly pink and golden orange Posca spatter.

Stamps: Lavinia Honeysuckle, Bee Mini; sentiment - Uniko;

Media: background - Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Spun Sugar); Posca sparkle pens (pale pink, deep pink, orange, green) from a set of 8; Versafine Clair (Nocturne); clear embossing powder; holographic glitter;

Tools: Crafters Companion brick wall stencil from “Life Happens” set.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Card Concept #175 - May Flowers

(I was inspired by the colours/flowers in the mood board)

Colour Crazy #20 2022 - Anything Goes with Colouring

Craft Rocket #92 - Birthdays

Crafty Catz #596 - Anything Goes

Creations In Pink #46 - Anything Goes In Mainly Pink

Dare 2B Artzy (May) - Flowers (2nd entry)

Get Creative #111 - Use Flowers (2nd entry)

Happy Little Stampers: Stencils (May) - Anything Goes with a stencil (2nd entry)

Inkspirational - Use Something Gifted or Free

Make My Monday #174 - Springtime

Moving Along With the Times #142 - Birthday

NBUS #38 - Use Your Never Before Used Schtuff (3rd entry)

(All the stamps and Posca pens)

Sheepski #62 - For the Girlz (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Layer It Up

Sisterhood of Crafters - Think Pink (2nd entry)

Sparkles #152 - Floral Frenzy (2nd entry)

Stamping Sensations (May) - Anything Stamped with option Floral and Fauna (3rd entry)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Use Your Stuff #448 - Use a Touch of Gold

We Love Stamping (May) - For a Lady (3rd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #543-544 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Hope you can join us this week, and I look forward to seeing your entries. Don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see more fab inspiration from the rest of the team, including our guest designers who have joined us specially for this

 celebration. Thanks for visiting.

Hugs,