Blue Flower Birthday

Todays card started with a sketch from Clean and Simple, just love the sketches they come up with.  Then I always check out the colour combinations over at The Dynamic Duos  and then finally a new one that I found over at Feline Playful Stampin For the Weekend which was to create a Monochromatic card.

  

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I started by taking a scrap piece of CS and punched out a 1" circle.  I used this as my stencil to create the sponged circles on the card front.  After marking out where the circles were to go I punched a circle part way down the top layer.  Once I had all the circles coloured in with the light blue I took the darker blue and stamped the flower from the Punch Potpourri using the Stamp-a-ma-jig to get my positioning just right.  

Once the card front was complete I positioned it over the card base.  By holding it up to the light I could see where the circles were and I again punched a circle but this time I punched it on the inside of the card front.  

The flower was again stamped inside the punched out area, but with only using the dark blue.  Using a scrap piece of CS I stamped out the sentiment and adhered it using  glue dots to give it a little bit of a wave.

This sketch challenge was a lot of fun and it truly is Clean and Simple.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nancy

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