A birthday card

So it has been awhile since I made this card. I made it for my sister-in-law's birthday back in November. I got my inspiration from the sketch at Sassy Lil' Sketches.

For the card I used Prima flowers, Paper Studio Spare Parts mini flower brads, premade card by Best Occasions (5x7), hand cut circle using part of a used card (also Best Occasions), dotted circle stamp by PaperTrey Ink Border and Corners {Circle} set, birthday stamps (in a set of clear stamps that I bought at Wal-Mart).

I found this card easy to make, and after writing this post about it, I can see the basic simplicity to it. Definitely not my best work!

Tried a sketch

This was a few weeks ago and I forgot to post them to the blog Cardpatterns, but I want show them off. The challege was http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2010/09/sketch-83.html. And these are the cards that I came up with:

I used some stash paper, a floral, a brown, and a cream. I used the sentiment "Thinking of you" from papertrey ink borders & corners {circle} in chocolate chip from stampin' up!. The bows are Martha Stewart ombre bow stickers.

My second creation was done with my sister in law. Paper was from the stash, grey, floral, and cream. Same sentiment, but in tempting turquoise by stampin' up!. The butterfly was cut from the same floral paper with my Silhouette SD. The bow was hand tied from some ribbon in my stash.

I really like the second one better, but I guess I had some time to play with it after making the first one. It could also be because it's blue, my favorite color.