Rosy Tea Party Birthday

 Hello, Monday. Are you back again? {heehee} Hope everyone is well and safe and ready to start another week. We made progress on our paperwork over the weekend. In the USA, we get an extra month this year to file our income taxes (and those of us in the states that got hit by that Feb. winter storm get until July). So I am trying to start to get our papers found and categorized. Every year it gets harder for me. I now just marvel at the thought that I actually did tax returns for 30 years!!! LOL Once I left it, I was gone and if I had any sense I'd have someone else do ours.

A niece's birthday's coming up so today I'm sharing the card I made her. It's truly a digital hybrid card, as I used images, sentiment and paper from Imagine That DigiStamps kit Rosy Tea Party: 

And I used paper from Pebbles Birthday Wishes pad:

I also hand stamped the inside sentiments in a frame.

   

I used SplitCoastStampers sketch SC338, as is, except that I did embellish around the circle element to frame it and I added ribbon. I actually made an A2 size card this time. After usually making 6x6 and A7 cards, the A2 seems tiny but it's good to mix it up at times.

I started out with SU for my card base and the Pebbles designer paper. I soon had a polka dot theme going on. In PSE, I opened a file and the ITDS digi set, choosing some dotted paper and then resizing the white-outlined tea cup mouse and digitally layering it onto the paper. I also layered on the sentiment from the set. I resized and duplicated the flowers and then printed everything. 

I used my trusty Coluzzle circle cutting tool and cut the paper/mouse out, fussy cut the roses, added the ribbon I found in my stash and then my printed elements. I popped the roses up on thin dimensionals. Only then did I notice that the tea cup has polka dots and little pink roses. Ha - gotta love good digi kits, coordinated even when you don't know it! 

The inside of the card is where I've hand-stamped. I picked out a polka dot paper scrap from my stash and stamped a Fiskars frame, then Papertrey Ink and Clear Dollar Stamps sentiments. I fussy cut out and layered onto Pebbles mats.

On the back, more of the Pebbles card with every little scrap I had left of my digitally printed ITDS paper from the front. I realized I could make a frame with the scraps and on a scrap of white I added a hand-stamped EKSuccess siggie I then circle-punched.

One last view. I am very much hoping for sunshine at least some of the week. We're supposed to get rain a few days and the humidity can be annoying. The worst rain day in the forecast at 70% chance is Wednesday and that is Honey's birthday, boo! Hoping you have sunshine wherever you are! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   SplitCoastStampers Sketch SC338

2.   ITDS April Digi-of-the-Month Progressive Challenge -- I'm using elements from the Rosy Tea Party set which qualifies for the challenge.  

3.   Outlawz Festive Friday 4/2-4/15: Birthday Theme

4.   Through the Purple Haze #179: AG + Opt. Ribbon/Lace -- #1/3 Option played - ribbon

5.   Aud Sentiments #272: Sentiment + AG -- #1/5

6.   Rabisco Scribbles Challenge #5 April 2021: AG/AG -- #1/5 I've used polka dot ribbon

7.   Classic Design Challenge #4 April 2021 5th Birthday -- AG  

8.   MAWTT #129: Animals/Birds -- #1/3 Mouse  

9.   Pearly Sparkles #61: Animals-Birds-Insects

10. TTCRD 4/6-4/13: AAG -- #2/2

11. Incy Wincy Designs Challenge 5th-18th April: Borders and/or Bright Colors -- #2/5 Bright Colors and I bordered the half-circle with roses

12. CD Sunday Plus #58: AG --  #1/3  I've used ITDS's Rosy Tea Party digital images, elements and paper.

13. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies April: AG with a Critter -- #3/5  Mouse

14. Penny's Paper Crafty #493: AAG with Paper --  #2/3 Paper used is shown in above post (ITDS and Pebbles)

15. Crafty Animals #49: Ag with an Animal -- Mouse

16. Scrapping 4 Fun #189: AG -- #2/3