Sunday, August 8, 2010

happy b'day Kathleen

A co-worker and lunch buddy's birthday is this week, but I don't seem to get around to making cards during the week much lately - I've been in a reading spurt - so this one's ready early! I hope Kathleen doesn't think I'm being morbid by sending her a black birthday card, but one of my fav color combos is black, white, and a punch of color, and these, plus lime and soft yellow, were the colors used in a color challenge over on Sharon Johnson's blog recently - see her July 29th ssnotime150 post for her cool inspiration photo. It was all about circle patterns in bold colors. The card's also based on a sketch challenge at Claire's Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge blog - see her August 7th WMSC9 post for deets. This one was all about flowers and circles and buttons, so I combined them into a two-fer card today!

stamps: SU's Always, Full of Life (inside sentiment - May every part of your BIRTHDAY have happy in it!), Simple Shapes, and Sweet Serendipity; paper: SU's Barely Banana and Basic Black, unknown white card stock; ink: s-e-i's lime, Ranter's black soot distress ink; tools: ek success, family treasures, and marvy flower punches, and dimensionals

Thanx for visiting!

8 comments:

Charmaine Stack said...

Great card and neat sentiment, too.

Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin) said...

Great take on the sketch

Nat said...

gorgeous card, love this colour combo, very elegant in black!!

Mona Pendleton said...

Pretty card Sue! I like the black, white & green color combo! Thanks so much for joining along with the WMSC :)

Julia Aston said...

Love the punched layered flowers over the black - very graphic looking! thanks for playing with WMS this week!

Laura (scrapnextras) said...

Love this...your colours the clean design and all those flowers! Music for my eyes!

Alice said...

so cute! lovely color combo!

B said...

Wow, love this fun color combo and the graphic look! Thanks for playing with WMS this week!