Spring Birthday Milestone!

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Seize the Birthday!

The toppings option this time is Spring, which is a long way off here in Australia, although it's my favourite time of year!

If flowers aren't your thing, then you can always play along with the anything goes birthday option.

A colleague at work asked me to make a card for her Mum who was turning 80 and said she loved flowers and the colours pink and purple.

I laid down some distress oxides in pink and purple on a craft mat, spritzed with water and patted some watercolour paper into the puddles. I dried that off with a heat gun, then sprayed the paper with some glimmer mist. Love the splotchy look!

The large and small flowers were punched out, the black stamens and leaves were diecut.

I diecut the numbers, inked them with versamark and heat embossed with black sparkle powder.

The textured background is from a Simon Says Stamp embossing plate. I would have liked the texture to be a bit more prominent, but couldn't get it anything better with my cuttlebug or big shot plus.

I'll have to keep experimenting with the sandwich!

Here's a close up that shows the shimmer.

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday where it's anything goes.

Happy Little Stampers Anything goes with Dies

Watercooler Wednesday All Abot Occasions.

Retro Rubber has a tic tac toe challenge and you must use at least one stamp that is more than a year old. I've used a sentiment stamp from Happy Little Stampers Doodled Flowers set, which dates from 2016.

My row is sparkle, leaves and heat embossing.

Supplies:

Punches: Stampin Up Pansy punch and EK success small flower.

Dies: Memory Box cherry blossom and Parker numbers; Elizabeth Craft curvy leaves; Spellbinders Circles; 

Other: Simon Says Stamp Cora embossing plate; distress oxide inks; versafine ink, clear ep; black sparkle ep. Dazzling diamonds glimmer mist.

Stamps: Happy Little Stampers doodled flowers sentiment.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x