Wednesday Greetings, everyone. Hope you have good weather wherever you are. Ours was sunny last week, but now we are in a pattern of one day sunny, one cloudy, one rainy, one cloudy, and repeat. I guess it's April showers bringing May flowers, but I would love more sunshine.
So, I did the next best thing and made a birthday card using lots of sunny yellow (with green and dark berry pink) from Basic Grey Hello Luscious designer papers. I also used precolored digis from Beccy's Place: Arthur (one of the birds from Wilson-Birds set), and Birdhouse with Vines (March's freebie image). I was a bit afraid the red berries would clash against the dark berry pink, but if it does I like it, lol. The sentiments were stamped using Sweet Stamp Shop's Alpha Tabs on the yellow card cut with the smallest MFT Fishtail Banner Stax die of that set. Arthur was fussy cut and joined the Lawn Fawn and Third Coast bee stamps in punched circles. The card base was cut from 12x12 KI Memories card stock.
I used Outlawz' current Wednesday sketch, but after resizing to 5.75"-square, I then rotated it 180 degrees. I wanted to use bees instead of buttons and they usually are buzzing in the air. I also added Arthur so it's an extra element, but I don't think it throws the movement in the sketch off at all.
The Sweet Stamp Shop alpha set came with a few words and included the sentiment I've stamped on the inside, stamping the Happy 3 times. For the back of the card, I used another sheet of the BG and some BG scraps leftover from the front with an EKSuccess siggie stamped and circle punched.
A close-up of the bees to capture the Sakura Clear Star metallic gel penning on the wings.
And some clear Wink of Stella carefully brushed on Arthur's irises. Since he has green eyes, I wanted to highlight them.
And a final view. I always enjoy using Beccy's Place digis, and it's a breeze to print now with my new printer -- worry-free! (So far so good, anyway, got my fingers crossed and prayers recited!)
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you are having a crafty week! XOX
MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:
2. Outlawz Color Tuesdays 4/6-4/19: Tic Tac Toe -- The top row inspired me with the colors of pink, green and yellow, also blue shading on the birdhouse 
4. Beccy's Place April Challenge: AG + Opt. Flowers/Plants/Foliage -- Option played and used her digis.
6. Scrapping4Fun #189: AG -- #1/3
7. CD Sunday Plus #57: AG -- #1/3 Used Beccy's Place pre-colored digis
8. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies April: AG with a Critter -- #2/5 I have bees and a bird
9. Crafty Animals #49: AG with an Animal -- I have bees and a bird
10. Pearly Sparkles #61: Animals-Birds-Insects -- I've used a bird and bees.
23 comments:
A great card. I love the word and spelling play on the sentiments and the colourful colouring.
Thank you for joining us.
Carol xx
CD Sunday Plus DT
Such a cute card. 😍 the birdhouse looks like the ones I used to tole paint back in the day. Your sentiment placement is very intriguing.
I love your bird house, beautifully coloured and lovely designed card, with a great sentiment
Thank you for joining us
Margaret
CD Sunday plus DT
Aimes, you are so imaginative when it comes to putting scenes together in a collage style. I love your unique talent in accomplishing this, and have not seen it anywhere else. In this case, the circles are completely delightful to accentuate your little critters, and the wording is MARVELOUSLY put together. Beccy's freebie done in pale blue is striking! Thanks for always telling a great story, and bringing joy through your artwork. hugs, de
Aimslee I like your card, the colours work well together. I love that birdhouse digi! Thanks for joining in with the challenge, it's lovely to have someone join in for the first time.
Pamela
CD Sunday Plus DT.
Amazing colours and images, beautifully put together Aimeslee, the glitter, the layers, front insert, and back are as always fabulous. AND! as I'm here with 2 hats I'll say - Thank you so much for joining us in our challenge at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies this week. Good Luck and I’m looking forward to seeing you again in our next challenge.
Faith A DT
Such a cute card ! Thank you for joining us over at Country View Challenges for our April challenge 'the Birds and the Bees'. Corrie x
I just had to get a new printer also. Mine was about eight years old and gave up the ghost. I had a heck of a time aligning the cartridges with the new one, but it's done now so it should be clear sailing from here, I hope. My husband was not very fond of the colorful language I was using while trying to do the alignment. This card is so wonderful. I have quite a few of Beccy's pre-colored images. I love them. I saw this on the Outlawz and just had to come see how you fussy cut the birdhouse. It's absolutely perfect. I want to learn how to have my Cameo 4 fussy cut my images. I have a friend that does it perfectly every time. Great card, though. Yours always are. I am getting burned out and don't feel like making cards right now. I got all my April cards done fro the Outlawz. I am not happy with them, though. It's really hard to be creative when I don't want to do it. We're getting ready to travel to see the baby. I am really looking forward to seeing him, but I intensely hate to travel. Oh well, no other way to get to Michigan.
OMGoodness, this is adorable! Loving the bright, sunny and cheerful colors!
This is great and I love that you have decorated the back of the card too. Thank you for sharing your lovely design with us.
Jocelyn x
CD Sunday Plus DT
Arthur is a real cutie! I love this sunny card - we have a sunny afternoon after rain and clouds this morning!
Thanks again for joining us at Try It On Tuesday, Chrisx
This is a fantastic card, Aimeslee! I love the dark berry color with the teal and of course the yellow pops off there so nicely. What a fun card!
Hugs Monica
Welcome to our challenge, lovely to have you join us.
This is a great card and I love your sentiments.
I'm a big fan of bees. I've been crocheting lots recently in aid of Guide Dogs. I'm fundraising to name a Guide Dog Arthur after my late father.
Jo
CD Sunday Plus DT
What a super card! Thank you for joining TIOT. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Regards,
Mia
Designer for Try it on Tuesday
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A wonderful cute card, I love how you altered the words.
I am always late and catching up these days and have enjoyed looking at your latest blog posts Aimeslee and seeing your super inspiration pieces. Thank you for linking some of them to the TioT's challenge and for your support for our themes.
Stay safe.
Yvonne xx
Another fabulous card Aimeslee, this has such a happy feel to it and I love the word play on birds and bees day.
Our weather is a bit mixed up - sun, snow and more sun, but very cold and frosty mornings!
Avril xx
p.s. Thanks for sharing with us at Try it on Tuesday
A really fun card! Thanks so much for joining our April The birds and the bees challenge over at Country View challenges xx
Your card is fabulous Aimeslee, I love the bright and happy colours! I also love the play on words for both the sentiments. The little bees are very cute and it was a great idea to add the metallic gel pen to the wings, they shimmer nicely. I also like the way you've highlighted Arthur's eyes... they look very cool!
Cheers,
Beccy
A very bright and cheerful card, which is fitting for a birthday card, or bird-day, or bee-day card! I love the sketch you used, and how you incorporated your critters into it. Thanks for sharing your cheery card with us at 2CCC this month, and good luck! :)
~Marie B -DT
Love the beautiful birdhouse and little Bees
Carol x
Fabulous card, Thank you for Joining us at Scrapping4funChallenge and waiting to see next time.
Hugs
Meena S4F DT
Bee-utiful, bright and colourful card, Aimeslee! Sorry, I couldn't think of a pun with bird, LOL but Arthur is adorable and I love your play on words. Thanks for joining us over at The Outlawz Colour Challenge.
Jacqui
xx
Love all the Sunny Yellow. Thanks for playing along with us at Crafty Animals. Lisa DT
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