Happy Birthday!

Here's a cheater of a birthday card. It fits the challenges for Card Positioning System challenge 138 and Color Throwdown challenge #65. It's also submitted to the Paper Craft Planet blog for Susanna's birthday. The real cheat? I made it for my mom's birthday and it's in the mail on the way to her.

Here's the card I finally came up with to meet all the qualifications.

I used Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button bits and a K&Company designer mat pad for the papers. The buttons and ribbons were from the stash. The original design of the stamp calls for it to be a topiary - it's really pretty and elegant that way too. I just made it a flower stem and added the wings from the bird in the button set to make the flower leaves. Love that about Papertrey designs, most of their stamp sets work in several ways.

Hope you have a great weekend! We finally have the family room painted and now we're in the process of putting it all back together and shampooing the carpets as well. The heat is on since we leave on a short vacation Monday and I hate the idea of coming home to a mess!

Clean And Simple Three Times FTL#61

Clean And Simple sketch for the week:

I really like the sketch - seems like it just asks for all kinds of round shapes from flowers to beach balls to pumpkins. Here are mine:

This one follows the sketch and the term to the letter of the law. The stamped saying is from Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button Bits, the paper is from what seems to be an endless stash with no name on it.

These two are obviously the same sketch - just reversed the BoBunny cardstock. Seems like even a Clean and Simple Christmas should be a little bit 'more'. The stamped saying is Winter Swirls from PaperTrey Ink.

All three cards are just paper pieced circles, cut into wedges and glittered. Quick and easy.