Blogger Challenge: Week 247

This week’s blogger challenge theme is birthdays. I combined the challenge with this week’s Our Craft Lounge challenge’s “pretty petals” theme and this week’s Mojo Monday sketch to come up with a soft and feminine birthday card. And, since the OCL design team is showing off May Arts ribbon this week, I included some of that, too--be sure to read on to the end of the post for details on how to win some May Arts ribbon for yourself . . .

I used a floral image from the Pretty Petals set as my focal image. I stamped the set’s stem image twice and used foam tape to add the colored flowers at the top of each stem. The “happy birthday” sentiment from the Say it with Flowers set is stamped next to the flowers in a soft green ink and accented with a trio of tiny pearls.

I used a piece of pastel striped paper for the panel at the bottom of the cardfront. It’s attached directly to the pink card base. A piece of celery cardstock runs across the top of the patterned paper panel and the image panel is attached over that. As a finishing touch, I tied a piece of pale pink wrinkled ribbon from May Arts around the card.

For more birthday themed ideas, check out the link list below (list will be added in the morning). And, if you’d like to join the challenge, add a direct link to your new birthday themed project below.

And, as promised, here's the info on how you can win some May Arts ribbon for yourself. May Arts sent us lots of YUMMY ribbon to share with all of you so OCL has 5 prize packages to give away this week. You have lots of ways to enter EVERY SINGLE DAY this week + one BONUS entry!

Daily leave 1 comment on each…

1. the OCL Blog (please leave contact info),
2. each designer’s blog playing along that day, and
3. the OCL Facebook page.

BONUS ENTRY: If you “LIKE” OCL on Facebook, you’ll get a bonus entry (as long as you tell us you did it) ~ if you've already "liked" OCL, let us know that too!

We will pick 5 random comments this weekend and our winners will be announced on the OCL blog on Tuesday, March 20th.



Materials Used:
Pretty Petals and Say it with Flowers stamp set (Our Craft Lounge); white cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Memento Tuxedo Black and Pear Tart inks (Tsukineko); markers (Copic); Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery, and Bashful Blue cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); Fair Day 6x6 paper pad (SEI); pink wrinkled ribbon (May Arts); self-adhesive pearls (Recollections); foam tape