A Bright and Colorful ‘Happy Birthday’!

Aloha, all!

     I spent most of last week working on projects that really needed to have subtle colors for them to feel right to me.  So, this week when it was time for the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge biweekly project, I decided that I just had to have some bright primary colors to work with!  And one of the newest stamp sets – in the Stampin' Up! 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog – gave me just the canvas on which to work with those bright colors!

     Does this wake you up when you look at it!  For sure "Celebrate" is definitely the word that comes to mind with all those wonderful Birthday Party images that are in the stamp, Packed for Birthday.  My favorite image is the Pinata and I started off coloring her in and then used the same colors to color in all the rest of the images.

     Can you tell that I couldn't make up my mind what color should be in the background?  So I just put them all together and used the Patterns Designer Series Papers in Real, Red, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, and Pumpkin Pie.  Oh, there is a bit of Garden Green and Pacific Point in the stamp colors.  But you can only put so many papers in the background of a card, no matter how colorful you want it to be!

     As most of you know, I really like tying up my greeting cards with a bit of ribbon to finish them off.  But, again, I couldn't decide on which color to use.  So I pulled out a bunch and wrapped them all around the card and used the Real Red 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon to tie the bunch together.  I didn't let any of the ribbon go to waste as I used the trimmings to accent the card when I took its picture!

     So finally I'm feeling like I'm over whatever it was that laid me up most of the month of February, and this card made me feel even perkier!  Even if you don't feel the need to be perked up by something as bright as I made, we'd still like to have you join in the challenge over at the SU Only Challenges Blog!  All you have to do is make a card, park it in a gallery online somewhere, and link it to the SUO Challenge Blog with the link tool at the end of the blog post.  I'd love to see some more of my regular readers join us!