Embellish Birthdays Color Challenge

Hi! Just wanted to pop in and show you the card I made for Embellish Magazine's Birthdays Color Challenge! The challenge is to create a birthday project using blue, green, pink, and brown. What a fun and fresh color scheme!!! I love it! Here's what I came up with:

I started off by stamping the "Jumbo Flower" image (Stampendous!) in the bottom left-hand corner of a blank white card. Then, I stamped the flower again five more times on patterned paper, cut out the various petals and paper pieced the flower together. The center of the flower consists of a punched patterned paper circle and a fabric covered brad from American Crafts.

I decided to offset the chocolate brown matting on the front of the card to give it a funky/trendy look. I drew the solid frame using a ruler and a dark brown TUL marker and then stamped the stitched lines inside of the frame.  

Here's a close-up of the flower:

I was thinking I should make sets of these with different sentiments to give to family/friends as gifts. 

Hope you're having a super weekend! Thank you so much for all of your comments on my blog! It's like receiving special little gifts each day!!!!

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Supplies:

Stamped Images - "Jumbo Flower" and "Hand of Friendship" (Stampendous!)

Stamped Sentiment - "Hand of Friendship" (Stampendous!)

Ink - "Timber Brown StazOn" (Tsukineko), "Vivid! Ultramarine" (Clearsnap)

Patterned Paper - "Fresh Print Cherry 8x8 Paper & Punch-Out Tablet" (Deja Views)

Cardstock - "White" (The Paper Company), "Chocolate Truffle" (The Paper Company)

Fabric Covered Brad (American Crafts)

Brown TUL Marker

Ruler

Adhesive Tape Runner (Therm-o-web)

Adhesive Foam Squares (Therm-o-web)

Finished Card Size: 5.75" x 4.5"