Birthday Wishes

  Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Spring Project

And our fabulous sponsor is:

Taylored Expressions

Here is my card for your inspiration:

Taylored Expressions was so generous and gave the designers this beautiful stamp and die combo and a set of circle masking stencils to use for this challenge.  The flowers are just gorgeous!  And I'm excited to get to try the circle masks in different ways.  Thanks, TE!  I started by stamping the flower image and coloring it (for some reason, I find it much easier to color an image before I cut it out.  I guess I really need to be able to see those lines, I really don't know), then using the matching die to die cut it out.  I actually used the die to cut three more out of an inexpensive white card stock and layered them all together for some dimension.  I used the circle mask along with a brick wall stencil from MFT to create a landing place for these gorgeous flowers!  It also looks like it adds dimension, but the base is just one layer.  Using my mini MISTI, I curved my sentiment to fit in the blank space.  I finished everything off with a smattering of pink pearls  and then added some gold glitter shimmer pen to the green leaves which you can just see in the photo below.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions "Spring Spray"; Verve "Better Together" sentiment

Dies: Taylored Expressions "Spring Spray"

Stencils: Taylored Expressions "Masking Stencils-Circles"; MFT brick wall

Challenges:

Cards Galore #97--anything goes

Pattie's Creations #192--anything goes

Die Cut Divas--birthday

Sheepski Designs #60--flowers

Creative Inspirations--spring flowers

Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner #229--add a flower

Crafty Friends #153--flowers

NBUS #36--anything goes (the flowers, die and masks are all brand new, never before used)

Fab n' Funky Challenge #547--hand colored image

Penny's Challenge #517--anything goes

CRAFT #631--anything goes

Creative Fingers #221--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #178--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #604--all occasions (birthday)