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.