Friendship and Feathers

I love drawing inspiration from challenges- especially when it's a really tough color scheme, like this weeks colourQ challenge.  Or CAS(E) this Sketch! challenges- which give me a template to build off of. 

This friendship and feathers card fits both challenges- and was so fun to make.  I would say it 'kills two birds with one stone', but that somehow doesn't seem appropriate for this card...

I was having a really hard time figuring out how to incorporate the colors in this card- until I found the All Abloom DSP Stack in my stash.  It's a stretch- the Melon Mambo is a little pinker than Poppy Parade.  I like it though- busy and colorful- like walking through a garden in full bloom.  This paper really is gorgeous- and it's retiring soon so it's on sale!

 I tried something new with my ribbon- I looped and doodled with it trying to create a stitched look with no-sew simplicity.  I just used little dots of hot glue to hold it where I wanted it, and added buttons to hide the imperfections.  The bird stamp is from 'A Happy Thing', a Sale-a-Bration set that is no longer available but I just had to use for this card.

Stay tuned for a grad themed card coming later this week!

Birthday Wishes

You can never have too many birthday cards on hand, and I know a lot of people with April birthdays!  I like to make a "batch" at a time and add them to my card stash so that it's always full of birthday cards for last minute necessity. 

When I make batches I like to keep them simple and versatile.  Here's what I came up with!  I stamped the balloon on watercolor paper to give it a little texture.  The balloon framelits are a must have!

These were really easy to put together a stack of-- and I hope this inspires you to go make something fun!