A Birthday Cow - and a farewell!

Hello all and I hope that your week has got off to a good start?  I was at work today - but now starting to count down days in my head to when I finish and then start my new one!  It's a strange mix of emotions when leaving one job and moving on - I've been in my current job for over 8 1/2 years so it will feel odd leaving. But I'm so looking forward to my new one, much nearer to home and good hours. I'm popping in later this week to take in some forms and get a chance to meet some of my new colleagues, so at least my first day at the beginning of September won't be quite so scary if I've already met some people lol!

But it's also time for another farewell for me.  As my time seems to be getting a little more restricted I've decided to step down from the Whimsy Digital Design Team. It was a difficult decision as I've thoroughly enjoyed working with the wide range of digi images that they release every month, but I hate having to do a 'rush job' with cards and wouldn't like the idea of presenting something I wasn't happy with.  And as my new job involves more hours I decided that after 9 months I would step down and give someone else the chance to join a great team! And I'd like to thank Whimsy for giving me the chance to work with their great products and talented designers.
As my 'farewell' I've used one of the fabulous new August releases from Whimsy for my card today - this is 'Birthday Cow' by Crissy's Digis

Isn't that just such a cute image?!  I've gone for a brighter colour scheme with this one - reminds me a bit of ice cream colours!  I've coloured the image with copics and promarkers

The great backing papers were freebies with a magazine. I've used a Tonic punch for the edging and some punched flowers with pearly centres. 

The leafy die cuts are chopped up bits of a Memory Box 'arboscello tree'!  The sentiment ticket stamps are from Whimsy and a little added ric rac on the edge! 

Hope you like this cute little moo cow! And don't forget to check out the gorgeous digi stamps in the August release from Whimsy! 

Back soon,

Kim x 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-

CraftySentiments - dies/punches

Just Inspirational - photo inspiration

PapertakeWeekly - Occasion-ally

Artistic Inspiration - dies/punches

EurekaStamps - blooms & blossoms