Krafty Chicks challenge #801 - birthday

Good morning lovely friends and Happy New Year to you!  I would like to take this opportunity to wish you love, happiness and good health in 2026 with some crafty goodness thrown in for good measure too lol!  I'm not totally sure where 2025 went but onwards and upwards in a brand new year.  

It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 1; as always the theme is 'birthday' and Leanne is our hostess. This is such an easy challenge as we always need birthday cards so we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I received my new Gina K goodies yesterday and had to use them straight away.  I love this bundle; the size is perfect for smaller or larger cards and the design is just beautiful.  I think I will be reaching for this one often.  I saw a beautiful card by Mindy Eggen that I wanted to recreate for an upcoming birthday.  As the card will be for a family member I made it slightly larger at 5 1/2" x 7 1/2".  Mindy's card just made me swoon when I saw it and I know mine's not as perfect as hers but I am really happy with how it turned out.  I hope you like it too.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the beautiful flowers:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by making my card base which I created from smooth white card cut to 11" x 7 1/2" and scored on the long side at 5 1/2".  I began by die cutting 4 of the floral arrangements from smooth white card.  I then took the coordinating stencils and using the same colour combo as Mindy stencilled 2 of the die cuts and left 2 of them white so that I could layer them up with liquid glue.  I cut a pink panel 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" and attached it to the card base with double sided tape.  Funny story the first time I did this I attached it upside down, haven't done that for a while, so I chopped off the front and reattached it to another card base.  I cut a stitched white panel from ML 17 and layered some scrap white card behind for a little bit of dimension and adhered that to the centre of the pink panel with double sided tape.  Mindy used a 'spatter' stamp to add some interest to the corners of her white panel and initially as I didn't have this stamp I wasn't going to put anything there except maybe a few pearls, however I remembered that the snowy background looks like splatter so I carefully masked off the corners and just using part of the background stamp added some black 'splatters' to the top left and bottom right corners.  I then adhered the flower arrangements in the top right and bottom left corners with liquid glue.  I stamped and die cut a sentiment and again layered it up with another one cut from white card and added that to the centre of the white panel with liquid glue.  The front didn't need anything else so I left it like that.  For the inside I cut a pink panel 5 1/4" x 7 1/4".  I also die cut another white stitched rectangle and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I decided to stencil just the one flower in the bottom left corner using the same pink inks.  I adhered the panels together with double sided tape before adding it onto the card base, again with double sided tape.  

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

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes with optional mood board

Craft Rocket challenge - something new (new die/stencil bundle and ink pads)

Creative Knockouts challenge - celebrations

Cut It Up challenge - ATG with a die cut

Die Cut Divas challenge - use a new crafty item (my die/stencil bundle & cranberry inks)

Little Red Wagon challenge - use the force! (I stamped, die cut and stencilled)

Moving Along With The Times challenge - use stencils and/or dies (I used both)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - add a sentiment 

Stencil Fun challenge - ATG must use a stencil optional winter related

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'birthday' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori. 

Thank you so much for stopping by; I want to say how much I appreciate your lovely comments, your support really does mean the world to me.   

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

*Gina K Designs - divine rose die & stencil bundle

Gina K Designs - master layouts 17 die set (for stitched rectangle)

Gina K Designs - snowy background stamp

Gina K Designs - graceful greetings stamp & die set (for outside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - on the inside: birthday (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - light cranberry, medium cranberry, key lime, grass green, fresh asparagus

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

pink card from my stash

*I now have an Affiliate Link for the Gina K Designs store. If you are considering making a purchase I would appreciate you using my link as it will earn me a small commission at no extra cost to you. 
Thank you x