birthday tulips

Happy Thursday and welcome to the charmed life blog. It was a rainy day here in the 'Burgh. One of those days that makes you stay inside and get some things on the to-do list accomplished.

I have quite an extensive list, but I wasn't in the mood to get to it!! What I wanted to do was get some stamping done. I have quite a to-do list there as well (lol)!!

So I checked out the challenges I wanted to be a part of and made 2 cards. I am only posting one today.

Over on splitcoaststampers the Thursday challenge was a celebration. Julia has 5 years under her wing. Congrats Julia, that's a lot of years to be a weekly hostess and to come up with new ideas.

She wanted us to make some sort of celebration card. I decided to make it a birthday card.

Since it's spring time I also wanted to use tulips. I have some tulip stamps but, I wanted to use a punch to make them.

I have seen these tulips on several blogs made with the stampin-up bird punch. You use just his wing to make the tulips.

Julia Bettencourt's blog is where I saw them made first so I will give her the credit.

The tulips are punched out using just the wing on the bird punch. Isn't that a really clever idea? I made mine with pink passion, lovely lilac and apricot appeal. Basically, the same colors that will bloom in my yard in the next several weeks. I sponged the edges with ink to give a little dimension.

For the stems I used the bird punch as well. There is a branch with leafs on it, that's part of this punch. I cut the leafs off and just used the branch part for my stem.

My layout is mercy kerin's tuesday sketch challenge. I used some designer paper from Lasting Impressions for my background. I used rick rack and then took a piece of it and tied it so it would somewhat resemble a bouquet.

I am definitely going to make more of these and use as Easter cards.

Well, it looks like it's a wrap for today in charmed life land. Thanks for stopping. Just a reminder that if you need prayer for a situation drop me an email. I would be honored to pray for you.

card recipe:

stamps: wow flowers

paper: lovely lilac, ww, lasting impressions dsp

accessories: rick rack, su 2 step bird punch