Birthday Banner Bouquet ~ NBUS #103

Good day!

I'm in the pink today! My Playhouse sees Dee Bris dressed in pink more often in February than in all the rest of the year. Everything is uber perky on every available surface!

Today's presentation card, although expertly sketched out by my hamster, evolved itself into an altogether different card than originally planned. For a couple of weeks I've had a NBUS heart stems die from Impression Obsession on my desk. Because of the hearts, I was planning to use it for a Valentine. But then Day 5 of the ongoing seven days of celebration challenges over at Papertrey Ink {capture the moment} was posted. 

The challenge was to make a birthday card.

So I did:

I was able to use the IO die and a NBUS PTI banner die, too. I cut apart the PTI banner into individual flags to make it work with my design. The banner die cuts with the letters as negative spaces, so I filled them with the same pink card stock I used for my card base. For the bouquet, I cut the heart stems in the rose paper and then wiselike, I filled the negative spaces using the positive stems cut from pink paper. Then I skipped to my loo. Next, I cut a slit on each side of the stems and threaded the PTI ribbon through, securing it with tape on the back, punctuating it with an enameled pink heart brad, and pop-dotting it onto the card base.

We get extra credit if we take and link a second time with a mugshot of ourselves holding our cards. So I did that, too, with the help of Mister.

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I purposely made my card using Mono Chrome pinks, so I could enter it in the third challenge at The Card Concept. My card this time is Clean and Layered. The Design Team and the gallery cards are so amazing! I recommend you go over to play and then book their post as a place to visit any time you feel the least bit depressed. There is a whole lot of perky pink on display to put you in the pink of mental health in no time!

 

As so often happens in Blogland, similar challenges are afoot. And so it is that the current challenge at the Craftyhands Challenge is to use different shades of the same color! I'll pink to that!

I'm also linking again with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is to have a heart somewhere on your creation.

Just click on the links given for all these challenges to find all the rules, sponsor, and prize details ~ and to join in the fun!!

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Did you spot the brilliant pink head of a tulip in that silly photo of moi? Here is the whole array in their own lime light, a gift from the Mister! We normally ignore the Hallmark holidays and instead celebrate, say, March 4th, or August 10th, but these tulips were too pretty to pass up. The weather has been so weird, my bulbs may not come up this year.

As long as we're at it, here are the orchids I received as a gift from the office at my retirement party, which I forgot to post before. I always kill orchids, so wish me luck and share advice if you have any.

And I just noticed yesterday that the spath plant has its first bloom of the year. This plant was a gift seven years ago as a wee 4-inch plant. I'm delighted that I've managed to keep it alive.

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Okay, tata! Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy. LITS!* 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower! Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor! 

 

*Life Is Too Short!

Project Details
Paper	SU Pretty in Pink; PTI Autumn Rose
Stamps	None
Ink	None
Accessories	Die: Impression Obsession "Heart Stems" Die: PTI One-Liners, Happy Ribbon: PTI Autumn Rose Brad from stash; pop dots

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