Musical Birthday Wishes

What card do you make when your friend is an incredible musician and loves hydrangeas? One with blooms and notes!

My NBUS music set from The Greetery ... it normally has Christmas Theme songs, but I found a skinny birthday wish that I could bend to follow the staff lines. The flowers are from the Pinkfresh Studio Roses & Hydrangea Set.

My entry to ...

... The Flower Challenge : Anything Goes

... NBUS #55

 

Use them all!

 I still had more flowers in my "left over" pile. Decided to put them all on one card. Popped them all up to give dimension.

Added some doodle dots to the background and used one of the fine frames for edging.

My entry to ...

... Altenew February Inspiration Challenge

... The Flower Challenge : Occasions

Birthday Balloon

If I need a jumpstart to my creativity, I find the quickest way, is to go to one of the many cards I have pinned on Pinterest. Either I make it exactly the same or I change it up a little. Once I've made one, I find more ideas flow from that.

Going back awhile, I was so inspired by Amber Rain Davis' card using the Altenew Whimsical Herringbone stamp.

So I made a very similar one, but I used more masculine colours and instead of the die cut sentiment, I stamped.

Now I was left with the tiny strip leftover.

I rather like CAS cards and wondered how to use it. Fitted perfectly into the gap in the striped stamp from the Tie Dye set (I bought it for those little stripes!!)

Added a balloon, a sentiment and liquid pearl dots. Voila!

My entry to ...

... CAS on Sunday : Balloons

... AAA Cards : Up to one Third, Optional leaves

... CASology : One

... Just Add Ink : Just Add lines

... NBUS #30 

Cute Critter Wishes

 One of my favourite little critters ...

This was my first attempt ... can you spot the error?

Easier to see on the close-up! I didn't mask the flowers when I was doing the distressing around the circle!

Which colour sky do you prefer?

My entry to ...

... AAA Cards : Sketch & optional Critters

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

... TimeOut Challenge : Movies I choose "The Hedgehog" based on the book "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" which was translated from the French "L'Élégance du hérisson" by Muriel Barbery. Loved the book!!

Beach Birthday

I unpacked my new Stampin' Up set ... Friends are like Seashells. I was inspired by Narelle's card amongst the other challenges.

My entry to ...

... Addicted to CAS #199 : Beach

... Fusions : Seashells

... Seize the Birthday #216 : Nautical

... Freshly Made Sketches #490 I hope it's ok that I switched the sketch from right hand side, to the left hand side.

... NBUS #27

Birthday Flower

 A quick bold CAS card ...

My entry to ...

... Just Add Ink #558 Sketch

... CAS on Friday #207 : Flowers

... The Flower Challenge #57 : CAS

... AAA Birthday #26 : Flowers

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It's your Birthday ... Woohoo!

I could not resist pairing these 2 sets together when I was asked for fun cards. It is the first time I'm using the Surprise Gift set.

I put a little arrow tab so that the recipient will know to pull up the lid of the gift.

Here's a little hint of the fun to come ...

Woohoo Indeed! I love these fun girlfriends.

Here is the action  ...

My entry to ...

... Die Cut Divas : Birthday

... NBUS #27

Happy Birthday - More Doodle Flowers

I had some doodle flowers left over from this card, and thought I'd better use them up and not let them gather in the ever increasing left-overs pile!

I added a light touch of shading on the inner side of the doodle lines to give a little depth.

Then I topped the centres with Nuvo Glitter gloss, and covered with a layer of Gloss Accents. 

My entry to ...

... CAS Colours & Sketches #421

.. AAA Birthday Challenge #25 

... AAA Cards Challenge #190