Birthday and Christmas!

 Hello!  Stopping in to share two cards that I made for a few challenges.  First up is a card for Freshly Made Sketches.  Let's have a look.

I made a recent purchase from Scrapbook.com and along with my order I received this super pretty mini kit from Paper Rose called Winter Blooms.  I just had to make a card with it and thought the FMS sketch was the perfect vehicle.   As you can see I made a Christmas card.  Another one for the stash!  The kit contains two sheets of die cut pieces that you punch out.  You can't see it in my photo, but the large floral piece I used has a beautiful shine to it.  The sentiment was trimmed out from one of the sheets of paper included in the kit.  I used another sheet for the background.  I didn't want to cover up all that lovely pattern so I used vellum.  Love how it turned out!

One of my great nieces is turning three at the beginning of February so this card will be going to her.  I used the colors from Color Throwdown for the three macarons featured on the card.  I did a little stenciling in the background using two different stencils so this card will also be going to the Just Us Girls challenge.  I placed a rectangle stencil on a piece of white cardstock.  Over the top of that I placed a stencil featuring tiny hearts.  I believe both stencils are from MFT.  I used light gray ink to stencil the hearts leaving me with a perfect rectangle of tiny hearts!  I die cut the panel with a rectangle die.  The macarons and candles were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then I colored the macarons with Copic markers using only one color for each macaron and candle.  I die cut everything and then added glossy accents to the centers of the macarons and dunked them in Rock Candy glitter.  A little glossy accents was added to the candles, as well.  I layered the everything on the panel and finished with the tiny sentiment.  All stamps are from Simon Says Stamp.

That's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!