Happy Birthday Card Inspired by the Paper Players Challenge

I was really inspired by Nance Leedy's card from the Paper Players Challenge #147.  I loved how she stamped the large sunflower over the card and through I would give it a try with the Swallowtail stamp from Stampin' Up.  I simply adore that stamp.  I used four colors of card stock from DCWV's Pastel stack:  white, yellow, blue and green.  Then I stamped the image using Momento's Toffee Crunch ink and colored it in with some colored pencils.  I resized a card from the 3x4 Life Cards by Lori Whitlock in the Silhouette store (Design ID #25178) to make it super tiny and stamped the sentiment from a set of stamps I bought from Boxer before they closed.  I then tied the tag using some Hemptique twine onto some sheer yellow ribbon. 

 

Isn't it funny how sometimes you finish a card and you know exactly what you would do differently?  The minute I saw this card sitting on the shelf across the craft room, I thought I should have swapped the blue and yellow.  They would be more impact if they were in the opposition positions. 

Quick card

I cannot believe how fast July has flown.  I didn't even finish my card for the I Feel the Love Project yet.  So today, before and after a great barbecue with the hubby's family, I worked on a quick card.  I took my cues from two separate challenges.  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches but used Lesley's theme challenge going on at The Paper Players where I picked the middle vertical column (birthday, dry embossing and ribbon).  The green birthday paper is from DCWV and the embossing folding is from Sizzix. The cute little hat I found the Silhouette Design Studio is from Lettering Delights and I topped it off with some stickles.  Quick simple and now I can go to bed because it's going to be a loooonnnnggg week.