Take Note Circle Happy Birthday Card

I saw a neat looking card here on the Bug Lover Cards blog. I really liked the cut out circle portion of the card. I know the person who created the card shown used an SVG file from Lori Whitlock, but I don't have that file. I thought I might be able to mimic the look using some circle punches. It was a little harder than I thought, but I managed to get a decent look with the punches I have. 

I was at Michaels over the weekend and they had some new product (to me at least) out from the Recollections line. You can see the two wooden leaves. They are small laser cut wood embellishments. Kind of like the butterflies I have used on previous cards, but these have  more detailed cuts. They are on sale this week 40% off, in case you are interested. They come in a wooden tray with six spots and a total of 18 embellishments. There are flowers, butterflies, leaves, houses and even mushrooms in one set. I was excited to use some on a card. I just used a glue dot on the side that would be covered by the flower.

Speaking of the flower, it's from CTMH's Hello Blooms stamp set stamped in Sunset ink. The happy birthday banner is from the Kudos stamp set that comes with the Artiste cartridge. And the happy birthday sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Basics set.

The pattern paper is from Doodlebugs Flower Pot 6x6 pad. 

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Hope your week is off to a good start.

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Take Note Flower Happy Birthday

There is a new challenge blog out there called Fusion Card Challenge. I found out about by reading Kay Miller's blog (she's on the design team). If you follow my blog at all, you know that I don't enter challenges much, if at all. And I'm not entering this one really. I just wanted to see what I could create with the ideas from the first challenge. They have a sketch and a photo and you could use one or the other or both in your card. So, I tried to use both, kinda. 

First up, I found out that my Cricut cartridges don't have a zig zag cut. Really? That seems odd, but whatever. I didn't have a stamp that I liked (that would go across the width of the paper). But I did like the Take Note zig zag paper, so that was my starting point.  The sketch had some squares on it, too, which is where the green square came from. It looked a little plain, so I added some polka dots to it. The photo had pretty flowers on it, so that's where the flower idea came from and I just got Hello Blooms from Close To My Heart (thanks, Becky) and wanted to use that set. I toyed with the idea of adding some gems somewhere, but it seemed to throw off the balance, so I opted to keep them off. 

All in all, I think it looks okay. And I stretched myself a bit. Baby steps, right?

Supplies:

Paper: Take Note Collection (Doodlebug Designs), Clover Meadow, Sunflower (Close To My Heart)

Ink: Clover Meadow, Sunset, Watermelon (Close To My Heart)

Stamps: Birthday Basics, Polka Dot Basics (Papertrey Ink), Hello Blooms (Close To My Heart)

Flower punch (McGill, I think), textured brad is from Hobby Lobby

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Hello Card

My friend, Kay Miller posted a card this morning that made me smile. You can see it here. Just about anything Kay makes puts a smile on my face because she has a wonderful eye for design. I wish I could claim the same. I just recognize good stuff when I see it, I guess. Anyway, that I had some of the papers she used just made my grin even happier. Because I knew what I was gonna do today.

Yup, a shameless copy of what she did. But I did try to tweak it just a bit to make it my own. If I'd had that tree stamp she used, I'd have used it though. LOL 

Supplies: 

Kay & Co Sweet Nectar paper pack

Martha Stewart border punch

Close To My Heart: Hello Blooms stamp set (bird, Sunset flower)  

Kudos stamp set {comes with the Artiste Cricut cartridge} (tiny pink flower)   

 Bubblegum, Sunset, Watermelon ink

Artiste cartridge: Label (cut at 1 1/4)

Recollections stamp set called Elephant Flowers was used for the larger pink flower.

Nestabilities: Circle and Scallop Circle

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope your week is going great!