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I had a shop around earlier this week to find a cute little girl for my daughter’s 5th birthday card earlier this week. It didn’t take long to stumble across Emma, the character in Tiddly Inks Celebrate Joyfully stamp. I have a very soft spot for adorable images, and Tiddly Inks images are just that!!

erin birthday front

Unusually for a girly 5th birthday card, I haven’t chosen a pink or purple colour scheme – Erin’s favourite colour is yellow (as she announced as I was halfway through decorating her bedroom pink recently….), so, using Pro Markers, I have coloured Emma’s dress in yellow, as well as using a hair colour that is very similar to my daughter’s.

The lemon and peach papers are by American Crafts, and have a lovely texture. I added a little Scattered Straw Distress Ink around the edge of the lemon to add some definition. The base layer is from the Snippets collection by Studio Calico. The banner was a file from the Silhouette store, popped up on 3D pads for extra depth.

erin birthday flat

I couldn’t resist adding the cute little patch of flowers to the inside of the card, on a mat of yellow and white polka paper from the Papermania Spots and Stripes Brights stack, which matches the die-cut flowers I made for the front of the card.

erin birthday inside

All in all, it’s a card I know Erin will love! And if you find yourself in need of a spot of retail therapy, head over to the Tiddly Inks store…you won’t regret it 😉

Now there is also the not so little matter of a DT call over at Tiddly Inks. I have just had a peek at all the fabulous applications so far – and I’m quaking in my boots! But, as the saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained…!

I’d also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Natalie and Amy’s Challenge – Die Cut Flowers

Sarah Hurley 365 – Favourite Things (birthday card for my daughter using her favourite colours / spotty paper and paper flowers are some of my favourite things!!)

Cosmic Strawberry – Colour Challenge

Bearly Mine – August Challenge

Cards Galore Encore – Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge – Anything Goes With Patterned Paper

It’s time for a new Anything Goes challenge at Crafting From The Heart. As usual, we’ve been lucky to have some great sponsors – Lacy Sunshine, Chi Chi Memories and The Stamping Chef!

I’ve don’t think I’ve ever used a Chi Chi Memories image before; difficult to believe as they are sooo cute! I have used Summer Fun Girl for my DT make, pairing it with a branch from Tiddly Inks For The Birds. With a little playing around, I was able to merge the two images in the Silhouette software, then cut the shape out as a whole. I used ProMarkers to colour the image, with a Sakura Jelly Roll for the polka dots.

For the background, I just added some clouds that I had left over from my hot air balloon box card, to a piece of sky blue AC cardstock (which has a lovely texture to it). I added a little shape to the clouds by popping some shadow to the edges and blending out; they are cut from a lovely piece of hammer embossed cardstock, so they have some good cloud texture too. I attached the sky behind another piece of the hammer embossed card using 3D pads to give some depth and then added my image to the front of the circle aperture. A little pink and white twine, with a pink and white polka button and pink seed beads finished it off!

It looks like it’s a week of firsts for me….my first Chi Chi Memories image and now, my first entry into the Muse Challenge. Marion Vagg’s adorable owl makes good use of his branch (see below), as does the little girl in my image! My white layer creates a frame around the image, and I have also echoed the blue frame in Marion’s card by bringing my background through to to edges of my card.