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Happy Birthday
by Donna

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the Memory Box Spring Blog Blitz!  I hope you've been enjoying the new products being showcased on the blog.  There are so many great dies in this release that it was hard to pick which ones to use for my post. I finally settled on three of my favorites, and this is the card I made using those:

For this card start with white cardstock and die cut the Chrysanthemum Collage on the right side of the card front.  Sponge Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress ink across the cardstock and mist lightly with water to blend the inks. Once the cardstock is dry, spatter the background with black ink.  Die cut the Blooming Chrysanthemum from white cardstock and glue on the left side of the prepared cardstock.  The word "Happy" was die cut from white cardstock using the Happy Birthday Tiles.  Mount the word "Happy" on a strip of black cardstock.  Stamp and emboss the word "Birthday" on black cardstock.  The word birthday came from a Poppystamps set called "Into the Words".  To finish the card, adhere the card front to a piece of white cardstock and glue that to a black card base.  Embellish the card front with black twine and black epoxy accents.

If you would like a chance to win the Blooming Chrysanthemum Die, leave a comment on this post by Sunday April 17th at 11:59 pm EST.  Winners will be announced on the Outside the Box blog on Monday, April 18th. 

Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping by today!


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75 Comments

  2. Beautiful combo of distress inks to highlight the beauty of Chrysanthemum dies! And i really love your creativity, how you played with Happy birthday tiles, really amazing! Thanks for the chance to win!

  4. great card using my favorite color combo…the die is perfect for this technique..love it..thanks for sharing your art.

  5. Really like your use of both flower dies and the way you used the happy birthday greeting, too. Am appreciating the card background technique as that’s an area of my card making that needs help! Thank you!

  6. Love your card, it’s nice and bright and the dies are great. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win.

  7. This is absolutely beautiful. I love the color choices and sponging technique. The contrast of the Chrysanthemum dies are just wonderful and I’m going to use that idea in my projects. Thank you for the inspiration!

  9. what a fab card love all the details but it still remains quite clean too, I think the flower dies are a great way to add flowers to a card without being too fussy and your card really showcases the crysants beautifully, thanks for sharing.

  10. This is such a lovely card! The colors are fantastic, and I really like the way a positive and a negative diecut were combined! The tiles make a wonderful finish to this beautiful creation!

  13. My favorite card of the blog blitz so far. Thanks for sharing your techniques and inspiration. Love the card.

  14. Oh my goodness Donna, what a stunning card! I would love to have that die, as a matter of fact, I would LOVE ALL of those dies. Very nice!

  15. Love your card – the positive and negatives of the flowers give it so much dimension ! The colors and design are spectacular !!

  19. This is a beautiful card – love the colors and the chrysanthemum dies are just too pretty.

  20. Beautiful card! I love the way the tiles look against the black background, and the Chrysanthemum dies are so lovely with their pretty details! Great color combo!

  21. This is a beautiful card and the color combination is stunning! I particularly like the use of the black twine. Thank you so much for the inspiration!

  22. Beautiful design, beautiful colours and such a lovely creation! Thanks for the inspiration!

  30. Beautiful card. I would have never put green and blue together on my own but it looks great – thanks for the inspiration!

  32. Beautiful card! I love the colours you chose and the chrysanthemum dies are just gorgeous!

  41. I really love this card. Great background colors! Those little black embellishments are great finishing touches. Thanks for sharing.

  44. Oh my gosh Donna first I hope you had a fantastic Birthday. This card is just stunning, It has so much depth and texture plus the colors you choose are some of my fav’s too. I love the way you blended the blue and green under the cut out dies. This is an award winning card! Just gorgeous!!!!

  49. Oh, how lovely!! I really loved how you used the positive and negative of the die and the bold black (sequins, too!) Just a stunning card! Thanks so much!!

  51. This is such a cool card – I love all the different elements in it. Thanks for a chance to win the background die, it is beautiful! Judy D.

  54. What a beautiful card with the dies and all the sponged color! My mother’s family crest is the chrysanthemum so this really caught my eye.

  56. Fabulous card. I love your delicious colour combination and your wonderful design. Both the Chrysanthemum dies are beautiful.

  59. Such a BEAUTIFUL Card!! =) I LOVE LOVE LOVE ALL of the Layers an how you combined ALL of the different Dies together!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

  66. Your card if beautiful. I love the blue/green color combination and how you used the dies. I’ll be adding the dies to my wish list.

  68. The combination of positive and negative images is very striking. Very pretty card.

  71. What a beautiful card. Love the new Chrysanthemum dies. Thanks for sharing your card idea with us.

  75. Here I am again. Thought I’d tell you once again how much I like the positive and negative use of the dies!

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