Happy Birthday Matilda

I am loving all the awesome new Cosmo Cricket 6x6 Mini Decks! The Halloween prints in Matilda are completely adorable, and I can't wait to cut into them, but for today, I've used some of the non-Halloween-specific patterns to create a birthday card. The cake, cupcake, sentiment, and star accents are all from Birthday Bash by Verve. I colored the image with Copics and accented with clear glitter. The focal panel is cut with the new Lacey Circles Nestabilities (I'm giving these things a real workout!). I added some hand-stitching around the circle panels and the background layer as well. The sentiment tag also includes a circle frame stamp from Happy Hello (another thing that's getting quite the workout - I think I've used that little circle on almost all of my Verve projects lately!).

The layout is from Julee's Mojo 155 sketch.

It's a contest this week, too, which means if you play along and link your creation to the Mojo Monday blog, you have a chance to win a Verve set of your choice. Do you know I acquired my very first Verve stamps by winning a Mojo contest? I bet it was two and half years ago at least, and oh, how my collection has grown!

Here's a little detail shot:

As always, thanks so much for stopping by. Your visits are a highlight of my day!



Stamps: Birthday Bash, Happy Hello (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Papertrey Vintage Cream and Plum Pudding card stock, Cosmo Cricket Matilda 6x6 Mini Deck
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Spun Sugar Distress, Stampin' Up So Saffron
Accessories: Spellbinders Lacey Circle Nestabilities, Copic markers, Sakura Quickie glue pen, Art Institute clear ultrafine glitter, Papertrey ribbon, Stampin' Up binder clip, Creative Memories 1" circle punch, My Favorite Things Die-namics Scalloped Scallops border die, needle and thread, SU dimensionals
Size: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" (A2)