Happy Birthday

Supplies:

Stamps: Simon Says Stamp Friend Like You, Papertrey Ink inside sentiment, Gina K Woodland Friends

Paper: Gina K White, Stampin' Up Garden Green, Brown from Stash

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Tumbled Glass

Accessories: Pickett Fence Blending Brush, Cheery Lynn Designs: Mini Fanciful Flourish, Poppy Stamps Whittle Cloud Dies, Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips Dies, Hero Arts Wood Frames Infinity Dies, Copic Markers

Hello Stampers!  I got a bonus day off today due to the blizzard we are having right now!  So I took my cup of coffee into my craft room and got to work.  This card is for two challenges.  One being the Clean and Simple Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers: Timber.  And the other challenge is using the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.

For my card I started with the frame.  I die cut the wood grain frame, and then die cut a white panel for the inside of the frame.  I stamped my focal image onto this white panel and colored it in with Copic markers.  Next I framed the "arch" by blending Tumbled Glass ink onto the top portion of the white panel.  To the sky I die cut some whittle clouds and adhered them onto the ink blended sky. For the sentiment I stamped and die cut it with a sentiment strip die.  Then I was stuck.  I wasn't sure what to do with the sprigs that are on the sketch.  I tried grass, but that didn't look right.  So I went through my dies and found a flourish die.  It had similar leaves as the focal image, so I die cut two flourishes and cut them apart.  I adhered them flourishes to the card base and then popped up the sentiment.  I kept the inside of the card simple by die cutting a wood grain frame and stamping a sentiment.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Terri