Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Summer Birthday


Hi, I was inspired to make this card by a couple of challenges.

Color Throwdown is celebrating their 5th anniversary with a challenge using these summer colours.


Seize the Birthday, is having a month long anything goes birthday challenge.


At Cuttlebug Mania, the theme is Fun in the Sun. I enjoy sitting in the garden on a sunny day enjoying what's flowering or growing in my garden.

I used Memory Box Cherry Blossom and Grove Branch dies with my cuttlebug. The inner melon coloured flower is cut from vellum and painted with twinkling H2O's. I added some stickles to the yellow for some extra sparkle.
The background was a white card base, sponged with blue, then embossed with Stampin Up's cloud embossing folder. The sentiment sticker is from my stash.

Thanks for visiting :)

15 comments:

roffeycreations said...

Brilliant card Cathy... Mxx

Mrs A. said...

How pretty is that . Love the gorgeous colours. Wanna be in my team. If we act now we get catch Karen P. behind the bike shed. A sitting duck so to speak!
Hugs Mrs A.
The A. Team.

Skye said...

Gorgeous card. I love you background and pretty flowers. It's like the sky behind the branch

Barbara said...

Love your gorgeous sky and branch with those flowers! Thanks so much for playing along and helping us celebrate!

Jannie said...

This is beautiful!! Love your flowers!!

Thank you for joining us at Cuttlebug Mania this week!!

Cuttlebugs&hugs
Jannie

Bonnie said...

So bright and pretty! The yellow centers of these flowers really pops!

Tammy Hershberger said...

Sweet! LOVE those blossoms! Thanks for helping us celebrate at The Color Throwdown!

Lyndal said...

CONGRATS on your Color Throwdown win Cathy :) :) :)

Darnell said...

Woo-Hoo! Congratulations, Cathy, for being one of the winners at the Color Throwdown Anniversary Party!!

Deepti said...

This is beautiful Cathy, the blue background is wow and congratulations on ur win, this had to win

Lesley said...

What a pretty card! Love the flowers. Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday!

MaryH said...

Lovely background. Really pretty with your MB diecuts...liked your coloring with the H20's on the vellum. Yet another new technique to try. Wonderful cheery card. TFS

Kerry said...

Very pretty card. Thank you for joining in with our Fun in the Sun challenge at Cuttlebug Mania x

~amy~ said...

I LOVE this!!!!

thanks for playing with us at Seize the Birthday!

Rose said...

this is so pretty!!! Thanks for joining us on Seize the Birthday.