Happiest of Birthdays To You

Good Morning. Today I am posting another Birthday card to add to my Birthday Card box. I chose to use CAS Colours & Sketches colour challenge for the week. I have been pushing myself out of the box with colour challenges. I tend to get anxious trying to come up with a design using different colours, but I have found it helpful to use a Colour Wheel when I'm not doing a challenge.

I chose to use the flowers from the MFT Fun Flower set, coloring them in with SU Calypso Coral and Terracotta Tile. I just stamped the leaves from SU Granny Apple Green paper since I did not have that ink. The stitched square that highlights the flowers was done using my Gel Press. I stamped my Calypso Coral straight to the pad then ran my brayer about five X's over it then pressed the paper onto it. I am happy with the color and smoothness it produced. I haven't used this technique much but will be experimenting more. Using a SU embossing folder after assembling the flowers I put it on my card base. 

That is it for today. We have another beautiful sunny day, but only in the high 40's. 

I'm so ready for Spring weather to show up!

Stay Safe and Well

Blessings, Bernadette

Masculine Happy Birthday

 I'm here today posting a card that I have made for one of my sons. I had gotten inspiration for this card from Julie Dinn over on Pinterest. Thank you, Julie! I will be putting this over on the AAA Birthday Card Challenge Game 22. The striped paper is from MFT 6x6 Black & White Stripes. I do really love this paper and do not use it enough. The large sentiment is from MFT and so are the candles from Make a Wish. The yellow paper is from SU, I used MFT Stitched Rectangle Frames for a border and the sentiment is MFT's Essential Sentiments. Once I had all the elements cut and stamped the card came together fairly quickly.

Hoping you will enjoy this evening and have a great weekend. I'm off tomorrow to one of my daughter's birthday parties and will be joined by 2 of her sisters. No boys allowed this time around.

I just love getting together with my family!

Blessings, Bernadette

Sending You Hearts

Just a quick stop by today with a card that I have made for my Great-granddaughter. I am sending this over to The Paper Players for their recent challenge although I'm coming in at the last minute on this entry.

This little kitty was too cute not to enter using a cat of some kind on the card. I stamped the cat image from MFT Cute Critters with a sentiment and die cut from the same set. I used several SU papers, Smokey Slate and Highland Heather. The Kitten was colored with my Prismacolor Pencils.

That is it for tonight. I hope you can enjoy your evening and have a blessed Friday and weekend.

Blessings, Bernadette

 

Birthday Blessings

 I'm here this afternoon posting a card that I will be putting over on the CAS Colour and Sketches for their recent challenge. I'm continuing to add to my Birthday Card stash which is so helpful when I need one to send quickly.

I looked through my older stamp sets today to pick some images to use on several different challenges and chose this one for the CAS entry. It is an older SU stamp set, Happy Watercolor. I stamped it on Neenah Solar White #80 lb. and used several Altenew inks to colour it. The paper is SU Highland Heather. The stamp for the sentiment is from my go-to MFT Bitty Birthday Wishes.

I hope you have a wonderful evening. The weather here in Clayton was 70 degrees! Unfortunately, it will only last until tomorrow and then we will have more rain for several days.

Blessings, Bernadette

For the Birthday Boy

 Just dropping in today with a card I created for one of my little grandsons.Over at Seize the Birthday the challenge was to create a scene. I went through my animal stamps and chose the little critters from MFT Better Together with matching Dies. I used  MFT Tucked -in Turf -Hor. for the grass element. The animals were colored with Prismacolor Pencils. 

After taking the photo of this card I noticed that the Dog could have had more color, but I just left it as is. Even though I had good lighting yesterday, this photo still looks a little off even after using a filter. As I said previously, I probably should invest in a lightbox or make a DYI one for my card photos.

That is for today. I need to clean up my craft desk and start another crafty project.

Stay well and safe and I hope you enjoy your Monday.

Blessings, Bernadette 

Happy Birthday

 I'm here today posting a card that I will link over for CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. This about finishes up for several months with cards for the woman in my life. Seems so good to be ahead of the game!

I pulled out my Altenew Garden Treasure stamp with the matching die and used MFT Small Brick Wall that just arrived several weeks ago. The colour choices seemed to just fall into place for me this time. I really liked the way it all came together, but now I will have to choose the gal in my life who will receive it!

Have a wonderful weekend and a blessed coming week.

Blessings, Bernadette

Happy Birthday To You

 Just a quick post today. I originally made the card below to post over at Freshly Made Sketches and Seize the Birthday. Unfortunately, I MISSED both deadlines. Oh, well this will still go into my birthday stash and be used since we have birthdays every month through the year except July.

I chose SU Soft Sea Foam, Mint Macaron, and Balmy Blue as my color palette. The bird was colored in Altenews Eastern Sky and SU Mint Macaron. I painted the branch with Tim Holtz Ground Espresso and the sentiment was inked with Versa Fine Black Ink. The bling is from SU's Holiday Rhinestone collection.

That is it for today. I hope all of you have stayed safe. The weather around the country sure looks dangerous. Here in our part of NC, we are seeing sunny skies and warmer temperatures, but that is not going to last say the Meteorologists. 

Blessings, Bernadette