Hello there. Once again I am privileged to be Guest Designer on the Seize the Birthday challenge again.
This time the theme is ‘Birthday and Spring Flowers’. Here is my card:
For these flowers I stamped and heat embossed with white, and water-coloured using my Zigs. I went for soft colours, one colour of each, and just a little blending with water. I am really quite pleased with how these turned out as I haven’t water-coloured like this for ages.
I then used the matching dies – something Clearly Besotted have stopped doing now, but I’m glad I had them for this set of stamps.
As these were soft flowers, I went for a dramatic background – a grey cardstock using a Crafters Companion wood grain embossing folder on Concord & 9th Mushroom card stock. . The sentiment is from Stampin Up – stamped in mushroom ink – again from Concord & 9th, then die cut with a stitched oval.
Some little clear drop thingies – no idea what they’re called – and the card is done.
I hope you can come and join us – It would be great to see your there with your birthday spring floral creations. xx
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Colour Crazy Challenge – anything goes with colouring
The Flower Challenge – flowers and pretty pastels
A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes
Love To Craft Challenge – anything goes
loopyloocards 
I love the contrast of the bright flowers and the dark gray background! So dramatic and chic! Love your take on the Topping! Sorry for my late comment 🙂 ! And Thank you also for playing at The Flower Challenge!
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Your flowers are absolutely gorgeous! I love the colours you chose. The bling is the perfect accent.
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This is absolutely gorgeous! You chose the right colors for this beautiful floral card. Thank you for joining the challenge at the Love To Craft Challenge Blog. Dorlene DT LTCCB
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The dark woodgrain background really shows off your beautifully colored flowers. Thanks for sharing your card with us at The Flower Challenge.
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I love how the white-embossed (and beautifully watercoloured) flowers pop against the dark wood grain background. Gorgeous!
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Those pretty flowers look wonderful against the mushroom coloured base, love the texture on it, I just love the look of the white embossing too, thankyou for being our guest at STB, Cathy x
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Thank you Cathy xx
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Love your card, great texture! Thanks for joining Colour Crazy Challenges, Good luck! Dawn Colour Crazy DT
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Thank you Dawn xx
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Gorgeous card, thank you so much for sharing with us over at ‘The Flower Challenge’ 😉 Viv DT xx
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Thanks Viv xx
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Seems like our ideas overlapped a bit! 🙂 Love the beautiful woodgrain background, and your coloring on the white embossed flowers looks awesome! Thank you for this lovely inspiration!
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Thanks very much xx
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Your beautiful flowers really pop against that brown woodgrian background. This is a lovely card Lynda! Have a wonderful weekend.
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Thanks very much 🙂 xx
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Those flower arrangements look so pretty water colored! Well done
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Thanks Vicki xx
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Aren’t those matching dies so handy to have? I love that you heat embossed these lovely sprays of flowers and kept them light and fresh. Great design by friend.
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Thanks Barbara xx
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Pretty birthday card. Love the layout and colors of your flowers. Thanks for sharing over at Colour Crazy.
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Thank you Billie xx
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Great card! Thanks for joining Colour Crazy Challenges, Good luck! Dawn Colour Crazy DT!
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Thank you Dawn xx
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This is beautiful! Love the white embossing for the watercoloured flowers and great choice for the background to set them off.
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Thanks Lindsey xx
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Beautiful card Lynda. Love the soft colors of the flowers and how you placed them in each corner of that dramatic background. So glad to have you as our guest at STB.
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Thank you xx
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Beautiful watercolors florals! I love the design with the flowers in the corner! Another great card inspiration for STB. Thank you for being our guest!
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Thank you very much for inviting me to the party xx
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