Birthday card featuring a striped collage background in blue and yellow scraps and little tag focal element with a bouquet of flowers and a layered greeting

 This card is for my Mom - her favorite colour is blue!!  I added a bit of yellow when I used all these strips of decorative scrapbook paper from my little stash of blue papers.  They coordinated so nicely and I simply taped them together on the back.  I layered the background onto a piece of yellow scrap book paper and then onto my large blue card.  This image is one of those I stampd a while back from one of my older SU sets - candles, flowers, leaves, a rabbit and this bouquet.  I thought it would be handy to have stamped images ready for creating cards.  Needless to say, I have a little stash of black and white images now!!  I might have gotten a little carried away - it was a bit of ink and scrap pieces of white cardstock!! I watercoloured my flowers to coordinate with my background, added a green ribbon and a layered oval greeting (font - laser printed) to the lower section then added a few lines of paper pierced texture with my pattern tracing wheel.  To finish it off I added some blue watercolour to the edges and mounted it to a rectangle of textured yellow cardstock.  I punched the bottom edge with  scalloped border punch (SU) and punched tiny holes in each scallop.  I mounted this focal element to my card front with 3D foam tape.  

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