Happy birthday!

Hello! How are things? I have a bazillion things to do today, but I wanted to stop by and share the card I made this morning. I did some negative image shading and some stamping and some punching!  It is just a simple card with a simple sentiment, but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out!  

I used the Window Frames Collection Framelits to cut out the dark green window and then used the negative part as my template for the shading.  I taped it down over a piece of Very Vanilla and sponged the insides creating the same shape as the window cutout. 

I stamped the words from French Foliage (retired....sniff, sniff!) and then the beautiful flowers from Bordering on Romance on top.  I cut the whole thing out using the next larger size in the bunch and layered the larger one on top of the smaller one.  I was hoping to go for a kind of shadow look.

I stamped the sentiment and then used the Decorative Label punch to get this cute shape.  I punched it out once and stuck it back into the punch moving it all the way to the top and punched it again!  I added a tiny bit of Dazzling Diamonds to the flowers for just a touch of sparkle.  I wanted to keep it slightly understated so it could be used for a man or a woman.

Since my To Do list is longer than I am tall today, I better get to it!  I hope that you take some time today to do something a little fun for yourself!  Weather is nice, life is short and today only happens once so make it a good one!

Much love!  I will be back soonest with more to share!