Birthday Flower

Here's a quick card I made after work today incorporating three different challenges--today's SCS clean and simple challenge to use brads or eyelets, Dawn's latest color challenge, and this week's Just Us Girls challenge to use a 3D flower on your project.

I started with a bright pink tissue paper flower made by simply punching different size circles from tissue paper, crumpling them up, smoothing them out, and stacking them up. A single large dark brown brad holds the circles together at the center. I added a pair of bright green leaves underneath the flower.

I used my sewing machine to secure a strip of ruffled dark brown satin ribbon with a row of cream lace along the top. It was slow going to get my machine to stitch all of this together, but it seemed to come out okay in the end. I stamped the happy birthday sentiment strip from Papertrey Ink's Around & About Sentiments in Dark Chocolate ink on the kraft background to finish the clean and simple card.

Materials Used:

Around & About Sentiments, Dark Chocolate ink, New Leaf and Kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink); 1 1/4", 1 1/2", and 1 3/4" circle punches (EK Success); brown satin ribbon (Morex); cream lace (Wyla); brown brad (?); sewing machine