Double Challenge Birthday Card

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The other night I had a flash of inspiration.  I was thinking about the current MFT Birthday Project challenge in conjuction with the current MFT Sketch Challenge.  For those that aren't familiar with the MFT Birthday Project challenge, it is a challenge to create a birthday card with a specific element added.  The current Birthday Project requires adding rainbow colors to the card and I have seen some beautiful entries so far!  So I thought, why not combine the two?


I thought some of the flowers in the MFT Stitched Flowers dienamics could be colored with distress inks for a faded out look and have one in each rainbow color.  To start, I inked some circles on a piece of white cardstock in the following distress inks: Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, and Seedless Preserves.  The only color I didn't have was a light yellow so I used Mama Elephant's Sunshine ink pad.  Their ink has a nice powdery finish and would compliment the distress inks nicely.  Plus, I wasn't using water with the inks so the substitution would work.



Then I die cut each flower by taping it over one of the colored circles.  I also cut out four stems (2 straight and 2 curved) and three of each of the four leaves in the set out of a green cardstock.  I used the same technique of partial die cutting from my last card for the frame.  Since the flowers would be a rainbow of color, I choose to cut the frame out of grey cardstock. 


I didn't want the card completely white, so before I glued anything down, I added a soft layer of Tumbled Glass distress ink in the area where the frame and flowers would go.  I didn't want it to be super noticeable, but just enough color to soften the white and play off the faded edges of the flowers.


I attached my frame first, leaving the bottom edge loose so I could tuck the stem ends under it.  One flower at a time, I figured out placement and attached the coordinating stem, cutting one straight and one curved stem to make the shorter stems.  I filled in the leaves as I went along, trying to not leave too much open space.  Lastly, I added the sentiment strip, cut out of black cardstock and embossed in white to really make it pop!


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