Thursday, May 23, 2024

Garden Bird

Hello Blogger friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with The Charmed Life Blog today. 

Hope your week is going well. It's almost time for another weekend and this one is a holiday weekend. Memorial Day will be celebrated, and it marks the "official" start of summer even though the calendar says its 3 weeks away. 

We have a parade here in our community and my friend will be driving an antique car and has invited me to join her on the drive. It's something I have never done before so of course I said yes. I think it will be fun. Other than that, we have no real plans. 

Now onto my card for today. This one I created for the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #1000. It was a milestone challenge and to celebrate, each DT member has chosen her favorite challenge that she hosted between CC901 & CC999.

I chose CC908 and my color trio is basic gray, fresh freesia and bermuda bay. Optional was to use die-cuts.
basic gray, bermuda bay, fresh freesia
For my card, I used the Garden Bird and Spring Blooms dies from CottageCutz to create a birthday card.

The background paper on the image panel is from the Stampin' Up "oh so ombre" collection.

The hummingbird is cut from the Stampin'Up "lily impressions" designer paper. I like the shaded look it gave his body. For the wings and throat, I used fresh freesia and shaded with the same color ink.

My flowers are cut from fresh freesia cardstock and the centers with a blackberry bliss (neutral) designer paper. This is one of the colors that Stampin' Up has classified as a neutral so it's allowed in this color challenge.  The leaves are mossy meadow another allowed neutral.

Stamped my birthday sentiment and added a few enamel dots to complete the card.

Well, that's it for me for this post. So, until next time.......God bless. 

Card Details:
Stamps: bitty birthday wishes (MFT)
Paper: basic gray, bermuda bay, fresh freesia, mossy meadow, lilly impressions dsp, oh so ombre dsp, (Stampin' Up)
Paper Size: A2
Ink: fresh freesia (Stampin' Up), tuxedo black (Memento)
Accessories: Garden Birds die, Spring Blooms die, Pierced Wide Rectangle die (CottageCutz), enamel dots (Altenew)
I am also entering:
1.  Allsorts has a 15th birthday celebration with an anything goes challenge. 
2.  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge is fur or feathers. 
3. Paper Funday is anything goes w/optional of flower shoppe. 
4.  Addicted to Stamps and More has a birthday challenge. 
5. Critter Crazy challenge is anything goes with a featured critter. 



9 comments:

  1. I love this color combo and cutting the hummingbird from patterned paper is clever. Thanks for sharing your lovely card with us at The Paper Funday Challenge. We hope to see you again soon.
    Donna xx
    Paper Funday Challenge
    Beautiful Blossoms Challenge
    Inspiration Station Challenge

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  2. Such a lovely hummingbird die and very sweet flowers. Beautiful paper and color choices, Mary! Thank you so much for joining the birthday celebration at Allsorts.

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  3. Gorgeous summer colours for such a pretty card, many thanks for joining in with Allsorts 15th Birthday challenge.

    B x

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  4. Wow, what an adorable card and a beautiful little hummingbird. I love the color combination. The implementation of the given colors is really successful. And the paper patchwork work on the bird is so great.
    Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful work with the latest Critter Crazy Challenge.
    Hugs Uschi

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  5. Fabulous card!
    Thank you for celebrating Allsorts Challenge this week;-))m

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  6. Thank you for sharing the Birthday celebrations at Allsorts with this gorgeous card. That is a beautiful range of colour and a fantastic design. Sarah

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  7. A beautiful card, the colour combination is so pretty. Thank you for sharing it with us at Critter Crazy Challenge.
    Anne CCC-DT

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  8. Absolutely stunning! Really love this!
    Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps and More
    Happy crafting!
    Catherine x DT

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  9. A really beautiful birthday card ! And I love the colour combo you chose. Such a pretty design too. Thanks so much for sharing and for playing at ATSM.

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