I’m back – I took a few days to go visit my parents and saw my brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephew.  We took 4 birthday gifts, had a birthday party, a birthday dinner, walked in the park, rode bikes, played games and legos and had a relaxing weekend.  Only Ryan and I went while Greg and Tyler stayed home to work on the deck.  I need to take pictures of their progress. Last week I tried to shop for birthday presents for Noah (6) and Ally (4) and just couldn’t find anything that I thought was the right thing.  So I went back to the basics – I got them each a hula hoop, a big bouncing ball, bug nets and sand toys.  And that seemed to be the perfect gift – all the kids at the party wanted to play the hula hoops and the balls.

So today’s card for the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge is a birthday card – and if you can believe it wasn’t even one of the four cards that I used for this weekend. Click on this link to go to the  Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog.   This is our Color Challenge inspiration for week 24:

I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with these colors – So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke.  Originally I thought flowers since that is what was in the inspiration picture but nothing came to me.  I was working on projects for a class last week and I wanted to use the Create a Cupcake stamp set and the new Build a Cupcake punch.  I had a swap card from the Leadership conference last month that I copied the layout from and used these color challenge colors.  It turned out to be a really cute card and colors that I would not have used together worked perfectly for this.

Stampin’ Up! Supplies:

  • Card stock: So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
  • Ink: Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write Marker
  • Stamp sets: Create a Cupcake
  • Accessories:  Build a Cupcake Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.

Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – February 2011 Newsletter – CLICK HERE.

February 2011 Ribbon Share – CLICK HERE.