Birthday Wishes to Someone Special

Here comes another special birthday for one of my IG (Instagram) friends, Rikki (rlsmorgan) who is celebrating her birthday today and wanted to wish her best wishes...Happy Birthday Rikki and hope you enjoy your special day. 

Also, joining over with this week's challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday blog with the theme of"Make It Colorful". Also, wanted to create a Clean and Simple look and join over at Casology week 162.

Here is my card:

To create my card I started off with creating the background by blending ink some ink colors from Simon Says Stamp from the left top with Hydrangea and than Hollyhock, and last but not least Melon. Afterwards added some white texture paste along with the Diamond circles stencil.

I just love the font on this stamp set from Reverse Confetti.called: Circle Sentiments where I stamped using black ink and for the circle Hydrangea (SSS) since I wanted to tie in some of the color from the background along with a circle mat using Ripe Raspberry cardstock. 

Couldn't resist but to add in some 4m Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. As always, if you haven't checked out the challenges, please stop over to check them out. 

Happy Bird-Day to You!

Wanted to play around with a NBUS (never been used stamp) that I've had for a long time and combine it with one of my new dies I just got. So I went off the make another Happy Birthday card. Joining over with this week's challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday blog with the theme of"Anything Goes" plus also joining Seize The Birthday. where they have a topper of "The Weather".

Here is my card:

I'll explain a little about my thought process on this card where I started off by first die-cutting the focal frame using one of the newest dies from Pretty Pink Posh called Storybook 1 which I absolutely love using black cardstock. Since the black was a strong constrast, I added some white texture embossing paste along with the Tiny Dots Stencil from Simon Says Stamp to soften the look.

For the scene, I wanted to add a sky along with some grass by using the blending technique using Jellybean (SSS) ink along with Sea Glass (SSS) ink and my blending tool. 

Next, I wanted to create some layers so I pulled out my Blueprints 20 from MFT and die-cut the white scallop base and the Stitched rectangle using Kraft cardstock. Added some fun foam under the scallop base. This adorable flamingo was from the set called: Fabulous Flamigo from Reverse Confetti. where I used Cotton Candy (MFT) ink along with Ripe Raspberry ink (MFT) for the wings. To help me cut it out, I used the matching dies from this set. 

In my thought process, I wanted to focus on using just the stamps from the set to create my scene, so the sentiment is also from this set. Last but not least, I added some 4m Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

As always, if you haven't checked out the challenge, please stop over to check out all the inspiration.