Birthday Blooms: Color Me Happy

Welcome to another Create with Connie and Mary Saturday Blog Hop!  This week we are featuring stamps that require coloring.

I’ve gone back to a favorite of mine from the Occasions Catalog, BIRTHDAY BLOOMS.

You may have noticed that I added in a couple more favorites, COTTAGE GREETINGS and the COTTAGE GREETINGS CARD KIT.  I am happy to say that COTTAGE GREETINGS is carrying over to the new catalog, but the card kit is not.  It's time for new kits, so I need to use up what I have left of this one!

I heat embossed the bloom in white on watercolor paper then used an aqua painter to color it in.  I love the combo of Peekaboo Peach and Mossy Meadow, I so hate to see that beautiful green retire!  I fussy cut the flower and added it to the card with dimensionals.  The card itself is all built from supplies in the card kit.  I think the wood paper looks gorgeous with the Peekaboo Peach and Mossy Meadow flower.

Now, let’s get to the good stuff, the supply list!

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS:   Birthday Blooms, Cottage Greetings

INKS:  Peekaboo Peach, Mossy Meadow, Versa Mark, Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

PAPER: Cottage Greetings Card Kit, Watercolor, Whisper White


ACCESSORIES: Cottage Greetings Card Kit, Silver Thread, White embossing powder, heat tool, Aqua Painter, Paper Snips, Stampin’ Trimmer, bone folder, dimensionals, Fine Tip Glue Pen


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Pink Birthday Blooms

I'm back today with another birthday card to share with the BIRTHDAY BLOOMS stamp set.  This one is all about PINK!



Yep, on this one I went a little crazy with the aqua painter!!  I really wanted to use the heart border somehow.  So I made a background of embossed hearts that I did a watercolor wash over.



For the flower, I heat embossed it as well and washed the color over.  I fussy cut it and added it to the card.  When I originally added it and it didn't have anything underneath, it looked too plain.  So I added a bit of glimmer paper, silver thread and Pool Party Glitter Ribbon.



And of course after all was said and done, I had to add in a few sequins!  I used the ones that came with the COTTAGE GREETINGS CARD KIT so I could have both big and little ones.  Lately this kit has been handy for other cards than it was intended!

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