A Birthday Flower…

Isn’t autumn beautiful? Our yard looks like a lovely carpet of golden yellows, bright rusty shades and soft yellow-browns with just a touch of fading green. The air smells fresh and is just starting to get that little nip to it. Autumn, the second spring!

This week, I would like to share with you my latest Flowering Birthday card. It is for a beautiful young woman celebrating her 30^th birthday.

The Flower: I die cut 6 layers of the two larger petals from Lady E's Flower #2 set. Using daubers, I accented the edges and centers with Gelato's Red Cherry. When I scrunched the petals, the Red Cherry coloring softened to a lovely soft pink – exactly what I had wanted.

The Sepal: I cut two of the larger sepals from a dark green Foamiran and accented with Chocolate and Lemon Gelato's. (When assembled, the completed flower measures a little under 3” in height.)

If you look hard, you can see an unbranded mandala die cut, cut out from a pearled green paper. By luck, in my paper stock I had some pale pink pearled cardstock which I mounted on the white card base.

Well, that is it for today. Hope you are having a wonderful day. Christmas is not far off and it is time to get those cards ready.

Till next time,

May God watch

 over you and yours.