Charisma cardz #19–DT card

Good morning dear friends, I hope you are all having a brilliant week so far.  Work has been extremely busy this week but at least the time goes quicker that way lol!  It’s Thursday so that means it’s time for a brand new challenge over at charisma cardz challenge.  This week the lovely Carol has set the theme and she has chosen “birthdays in pink”,  which is obviously going to be a very popular theme I think! 

We are sponsored this week by Robyn’s Fetish and the prize is  5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.  The DT were lucky enough to be given one of their images to use on our cards this week and I chose ‘waking up birdie’ which would also be ideal as a new home card too. 

Here is my card:

I have to say that I really struggled with my card, even though I really love pink!!  I made the mistake of colouring my image first (which I never do) and then I couldn’t find the right papers that seemed to fit!!  I settled on my standby of gingham, which I bet you are all sick of seeing lol!  I kept the layout fairly simple with just a few punched flowers, pearls and a punched butterfly but I think it looks quite fresh.  I hope you agree!

The rest of the DT have created gorgeous samples once again this week, so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate all the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Corrosive challenge – birthday

Cupcake inspirations challenge – inspiration photo (I was inspired by the birds)

Stamptacular challenge – pink-a-licious

The shabby tea room challenge – monochromatic

A spoonfull of sugar challenge – anything goes

Claudia and company challenge – girl’s birthday card

Papertake challenge – bloom & grow

4 crafty chicks challenge – spring inspired

Crafty purple frog challenge – monochromatic

Dutch dare challenge – winged things (2nd entry)

Crafty Ann’s challenge – happy birthday

One stop craft challenge – ice cream images or colours (I’ve gone for strawberry with a hint of chocolate)

Critter sketch challenge – hip to be square (my paper is cut into squares)

Creative card crew challenge – cute and girly

Crafts and me challenge – anything goes

Flutterby Wednesday challenge – open theme (I didn’t use the optional sketch)

Paper pretties challenge – flowers

Penny’s paper crafty challenge – anything goes

The pixie cottage challenge – sketch and/or pink & girlie

Truly scrumptious challenge – anything goes

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this week and I cannot wait to see what you create.  I would like to say hello *waves* to my newest follower Steph, thanks hun for joining my happy band of followers, I will return the favour very soon.   Have a wonderful Thursday and thanks for stopping by.

Card ingredients:

Image: Robyn’s fetish – ‘waking up birdie’

Paper: promarkers, gingham paper from stash, bazzill bling cardstock (I used the matte side), MS butterfly punch, MS frond punch, ek success medium retro flower punch, personal impressions sentiment, stickles, pearls from the hobby house, small circle punch, corner rounder punch, letraset fineliner pen