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 Memories

It's good to use leftovers as soon as possible ... before they get added to the ever growing boxes of bits and pieces.

So I'm using the oval left over from this card. I distressed the edges with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide.

The flowers are coloured with Copics.

My entry to ...

... The Flower Challenge : Anything Goes

... Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge : Stamp It

... Addicted to Stamps and More : Make your mark

Masculine and Feminin Versions

I'm so happy to be up as guest designer at Color Throwdown this week. 

When I came to do my card, I remembered the colours were grey, blue and orange, and went with a floral card. But when I went back to look at the inspiration photo, I thought I should have gone with something more in a clean graphic theme. So I have also made a masculine version.

I started with grey cardstock, and stamped Pinkfresh Studio Dainty Botanicals in grey and blue. Then I moved back to white cardstock and I stamped flowers from The Stamp Market Botanicals stamp set, and tiny flowers from Concord & 9th "Love you. Mean it." stamp set, in grey ink and coloured with copics. The solid leaves were partially inked and spritzed with water.

For the more masculine version, stamped up the stripes using Impression Obsession Thick Stripes in grey and trimmed. I stamped the triangle pattern from Ellen Hutson Wonky Backgrounds in blue. Stamped the "wheels" in SSS Apricot, and cut out. Popped everything up on foam.

I will also enter this to ...

... The Flower Challenge : Focus on Background Stamping

... Seize the Birthday : Cover the Card

... The Male Room : Multiple Layers