The Crafty Den: AAA Birthday challenge #66

Good morning friends and welcome to October. Well unfortunately autumn has started with lots of rain in my neck of the woods so not the start I wanted. Let's hope I get the crisp and bright days I am dreaming of arrive soon. Today I'm sharing my card for this month's brand new challenge over at the AAA Birthday challenge. This month Deekshita is the hostess and she has chosen 'circle shaped' as our theme. Our guest designer this month is Nancy so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.

To be clear: your card should be a circle shape, not just a card with circles on it.

I love the look of circle cards and definitely don't make them often enough. I made my own card base using a large circle die and the finished card is 5" diameter. I haven't coloured flowers for ages and after rooting through my stash found this large floral image that I hadn't used before and it was the perfect fit for my card base. I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A close up of the beautiful flowers:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the flower image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with Promarkers and cut it out with the matching die. I also stamped the sentiment in black ink and die cut it with a sentiment strip die. I took an A4 sheet of white card and using a large circle die created my card base. I cut another circle the same size as my card base and lightly ink blended some sea glass ink all over; I then added this to my card base with liquid glue. I adhered the flower image with liquid glue. I decided to make a frame to go on top of the card front and I created this with the same circle die and the next size down in the set. I added this with foam strips. I added the sentiment strip with foam squares and a few silver sequins. For the inside I used the left over circle (from creating the frame) and stamped a portion of the flower image in grey ink on the left side. I also stamped a sentiment in black ink. This was added to the card base with double sided tape. A fairly simple card but I'm happy with the finished result.

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

Allsorts challenge - ATG

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes & optional mood board

Die Cut Divas challenge - ATG on a card

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

My Time To Craft challenge - spring season

PINspirational challenge - shapes (shaped card)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Cutie Pie challenge - birthday girls

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed. I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

I'll be back in a short while with an extra card for you so I hope you can call back and check it out. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,