Tuesday 15 April 2014

Birthday sentiment

Hello all and I hope that you are all enjoying some of this lovely spring sunshine that we've been having. We've been lucky here and had a couple of gorgeous days - long may it continue!  One of my friends had said that I'd probably cause weeks of rain by buying new garden furniture (like what usually happens when we wash our car lol!), but she texted me today to apologise and say that it must have been a good omen instead!  And my husband has now finished work for a week over the Easter break so we had a lovely peaceful hour outside this evening, that beautiful twilight time, with a small fire burning and a hot mug of tea - can't think of much nicer really!

Anyway, just thought I'd share a birthday card made recently


The card is from Kanban - when a colleague passed a stack of card to me for crafting there was some Kanban card in there and I just love these teal and brown colours.
The sentiment is from LOTV and the flowers from Wild Orchid. The die cut ivy leaf is from Marianne.  I've added some stitching and some dewdrop embellies.


Hope you like it.  
And I hope that you have some sunshine to enjoy this week - I'm just hoping that we'll be really lucky and it lasts over the Easter weekend, especially as we have everyone here and some friends coming on the Monday! 
Back soon,
Kim x 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:-
Lexis Creations - focus on the sentiment
Wild Orchid Challenge - use 3 different flowers
Penny Black at allsorts - blossoms and blooms



27 comments:

  1. Great design Kim, love the colours and detail. I also hope the sun stays with us. xx Flora

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  2. This is gorgeous Kim, such a beautiful papers and I love the pretty flowers.
    Glad to hear you are making the most of the good weather. Let's hope it lasts a while.
    Sue xx

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  3. Wow Kim I absolutely love everything about this card. Gorgeous colours, love the style x

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  4. Oooo I really like those papers too. Wonderful card! I thought I was the only one who brought the rain by washing my car. LOL Hugs!

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  5. Thanks for joining us at WOC with your gorgoeus card!

    Best regards, Malin ♥

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  6. Love the colours you've used here Kim!! Cleaning the windows usually produces rain for me!! xx

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  7. Lovely card, you have used one of my favourites color combos. Love these flowers.
    Have a nice, sunny day!
    Anna xxx

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  8. Fabulous card Kim, love the colours.
    Hugs
    Caz x

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  9. Fabulous colour theme and detail Kim.
    Laine
    xx

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  10. Kim this is so beautiful, from the wonderful sewing to the scrumptious flower spray.
    Hugs
    Desíre
    {Doing Life – my personal blog}

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  11. What a wonderful card - love the layers and lovely flowers. Ahh the warmer days - I wish they would come here to! -16c again with the wind chill. Balmy weather, Monday it was 23c!

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  12. Fab card Kim, your flower arrangement is so pretty :)

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  13. Fabulous colours Kim and such pretty flowers, gorgeous card.
    Hope you have a wonderful Easter.
    Wendy xx

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  14. I really like this Kim, I love how you have used the sentiment, and the flowers pull everything together.. really pretty!
    Have a lovely Easter:)
    Hugs,
    Marjorie

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  15. Such fab card Kim! I love the colours and the flowers are just perfect!
    Have a lovely Easter.
    Hugs
    Gina x

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  16. A really fantastic creation Kim. Glad you are getting good use out of your new furniture .

    Have a Good Easter.
    Hugs
    Cathy
    xxxxx

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  17. Fab colours you have chosen Kim and I need some of those LOTV sentiments lol have a great Easter huggles Sue xx

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  18. Hi Kim,
    I have just popped over from Penny Black and More to see your stunning card - Wow!
    xx

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  19. Fabulous 'focus on the sentiment' card and very beautiful. Love your flowers. Thanks for joining us at Lexi's Creations!

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  20. Fabulous card, love how the sentiment is the main feature, and beautifully framed with the flowers, loving the colour combo too, hugs, Colette xx

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  21. Oh I love this Kim. Fab card in fab colours!

    Susan x

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  22. Rather belatedly I am afraid just wanted to say that your creation is lovely, perfect for our Blssoms and Blooms theme and thanks so much for sharing with us at Penny Black and More challenge.

    B x (Not sure if you entered my Grand Calibur candy here if not there is still time to do so)

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  23. Gorgeous creation, thanks for joining Penny Black & More @ Allsorts challenge, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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  24. Hello Kim, wonderful card, Hope you had a lovely Easter, x carol

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  25. Hi Kim - beautiful card! Love the colours and the stitching, and especially that lovely big sentiment. Thanks for joining us at Lexi's Creations this time, and for bearing with us with our Linky problem!
    Helen x (DT)

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  26. This is gorgeous. I love that patterned background and all the colours go beautifully together

    Thanks for joining us

    Lin
    Lexi's Creations

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  27. Simply stunning and thanks for joining us at Penny Black & More this month and good luck, Luv Sam x

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I love reading your comments - and thanks for taking the time to leave one!
Kim x