My Paper Playground: Birthday Blossom

I hope you're all having (going to have) a wonderful St Patrick's Day.... mine is approaching early evening, and I'm about to have a wonderful meal of corned beef, cabbage, neeps and taties, followed with currant square!

Here is a card I created today, for a birthday I have coming up this week...

It uses a beautiful border sentiment/collage image from Beccy's Place. After printing the image, I coloured the flower with markers in bold colours, knowing that the cardstock and paper I had chosen for matting was a little paler. I really wanted the flower to 'pop' as I wahted it to be a CASE creation. When it was ready to be trimmed and matted, I did so with two layers of cardstock, sandwiching a layer of pink floral paper. I added pink rhinestones to the four corners of the image layer.

I am also sharing this card in these challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - #133 Clean and Simple (20/3)
In The Pink - #15 Floral/ Mothers Day (20/3)
2 Sisters - #135 Flowers for Spring (22/3)
QKR Stampede - Dreaming of Spring (22/3)
Aud Sentiments - Card with Sentiment for a Girl (26/3)
Beccy's Place - March Challenge (31/3)

Thanks for peepin'!

9 cared to share!:

Christine L said...: Your card is fabulous... I love the simplicity of it, and your flower really does pop!

Thanks for sharing at In The Pink.. hope to see you here again soon with another fabbie pink creation!

Hugs
Christine x; March 18, 2013 at 2:15 AM
Jennifer said...: Polly, this is so very pretty! I love that vibrant flower and the simplicity is perfect!
Enjoy your scrumptious meal! Sounds wonderful!; March 18, 2013 at 4:54 AM
Deonna B said...: Fantastic Card! i love the simplicity and that sweet flower. Thank you for sharing with QKR Stampede this week.; March 19, 2013 at 2:16 AM
Leanne said...: Thanks for playing our CAS challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks, awesome!; March 19, 2013 at 2:56 AM
Zella said...: Pauline, I love this card! It's so bright and happy! Great job!!!; March 19, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Tamie said...: Love the crisp clean lines that you used on this card, not to mention how amazing the crisp clean lines make the sentiment pop! You make clean and simple cards look so easy. Thank you so much for sharing your fantabulous inspiration with us at 4 Crafty Chicks.; March 21, 2013 at 3:19 AM
Beccy said...: Well done Pauline, great colours and great background papers! I love how you've coloured the flower in really bright colours to lift it out of the background.
Cheers,
Beccy; March 24, 2013 at 12:22 AM
Beccy said...: Well done Pauline, great colours and great background papers! I love how you've coloured the flower in really bright colours to lift it out of the background.
Cheers,
Beccy; March 24, 2013 at 12:22 AM
Julie said...: Very pretty! Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments
Hugs,
Julie t; March 27, 2013 at 5:03 AM