Birthday Flower

Hi everyone, today I would like to share the card I made for my oldest schoolfriend’s birthday. I decided to have a play with one of my favourite older Tracy Evans stamps, along with a matching teeny tag from a set I recently acquired in the sale specifically to match the larger flower.

As luck would have it I used a number of snippets for this card, and Sarn and Di have two fabulous mega challenges going on over the course of December over at the Snippets Playground, with surprise festive bundle prizes on offer on top of the usual hot chocolate and mulled wine in the tree house! What a fab way to celebrate the festive season! ❤️

I cut a piece of white stamping card 6.5” x 4.5” and created a background by daubing Distress Oxides onto an acrylic block masked with tape to the correct size, spritzing with water then removing the tape and stamping onto the card. I stamped the focal flower, then stamped again onto a separate snippet of card. I coloured the flower head and leaves with Zig pens, added silver and white Posca dots to the flower centre, added Spectrum Noir sparkle pen to the flower head and circle then fussy cut them out and set aside. I stamped the teeny tag onto a small white snippet and coloured the flower head as above. I added some background stamping to the corners for added interest then stamped the sentiment and coloured it with Sakura sparkle pen. I assembled the card by attaching first the flower head with scrunched up silver holographic thread behind it (which totally refused to behave itself!!), then the circle, then the tag on top of some thread placed across the card. I matted the piece onto a large snippet of black card stock and a 7” x 5” card blank, and finished off with a teeny silver bow on the tag.

This is another very sparkly card where the photos don’t really capture it due to the poor winter light.

Stamps: AALL & Create #904 Flower Journey, #531 Textured Florals, #899 Garden Mix Tagged; Tracy Evans Boutique Designs TE6 Branched Heart; sentiment - Woodware Made For You;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxides inks (Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet, Cracked Pistachio); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist, Lilac Bloom, Very Peri); Kuretake Zig Clean Color watercolour pens; Sakura Stardust pen (clear); Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (clear); Posca pens (silver, white).

Challenges I would like to enter: 

AAA Birthday #68 - Lovely Layers

Addicted to Stamps and More #483 - Birthdays

Beautiful Blossoms #23 - Anything Floral Goes - TOP 3

Double Trouble #181 - Anything Goes + option Use a Bow

Heart’s Quest Celebrations of Love #12 2024 - Birthdays - TOP 3

{PIN}spirational #320 - Anything Goes

Snippets Playground #495 - Use Snippets 

Triple B (December) - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies

We Love 2 Create #11 2024 - Anything Mixed Media Goes  (2nd entry) - TOP 3

Word Art Wednesday #677/678 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,