Monday, November 8, 2010

Birthday Flowers

Good morning everyone!  What a beautiful day here today, blue skies, sunshine, and perfect temperature!  So much to be thankful for.

Here is a card I just made having found out late in the day that my daughter's teacher just celebrated her birthday!  I love the happy colours. (My picture taking was not the best this morning, the light was not great).



Paper: PTI, Watercolour paper
Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Dusty Concord, Tea Dye & Scattered Straw Distress Inks, Staz-On Jet Black
Other: Vellum, random pearls

I used one flower image from a Hero Art stamp set and inked it with various distress inks, spritzed it with pearlized water and stamped it randomly on watercolour paper.  The edges of the paper were inked gently with some Tea Dye ink.

I stamped the sentiment on Vellum and added that to the panel, it's adhered at the back of the panel so that nothing shows through.  A few pearls here and there, and the card is ready to go!

I hope to make a few more cards today for various occasions.  And you, are you crafting today or is Monday just that one day in the week where life is really busy?!

Wishing you all a fabulous day!

7 comments:

Virginia L. said...

Love your pretty colors and use of vellum! Such a delightful card for the Wee Memories Challenge, Brenda! So glad you joined the fun!

GrammySue's Creations said...

Hi Brenda, this is very pretty -- love the flowers. Perfect in every way.

CinnamonSally said...

Love this beautiful card Brenda, I wish I had time to craft on a Monday, No such luck. A very busy day at work and lots to do at home. I have just found a few minutes to catch up on a few blogs!!

Brandi said...

Brenda,
This card is absolutely stunning! I see that you are from Texas. I use to live right outside of Dallas, in Grand Prarie. I miss it so. I live in upstate New York and it is very different weather wise, than sunny skies that you have now. We got our first snow of the year today. Yikes!
Brandi

Ann said...

Gorgeous CAS design! Thanks for joining us at Wee Memories this week!

Nancy said...

holy smokes that is one fabulous CAS card! I love it!
blessings...

lynzw21 said...

Hi Brenda, just hopped over from the HA flickr site as I love love loved your birthday flower card- the vellum is the perfect touch!

You have done a great job with your blog so far, so much inspiration! I'm a new blogger too, but have let life take over in the past couple of weeks- you've inspired me to get back on it!!