Gardening Birthday Card for my Mom...see the flowers!!

Hi everyone!  I hope you're all enjoying the weekend!!  This week was a blur....I can't believe that I haven't posted a thing since last Sunday.  But don't think I've been sitting around eating bon bons...well, maybe I've snuck a piece or two of my kids Easter candy!!  :-)  I had a very busy week at my kids' elementary school this week....a science fair, distribution of the school's literary magazine, coordinating an egg hunt and a spring breakfast in pajamas, helping sell pajama day tickets and stuffing lots of Easter goodie bags.  It's funny how everything seems to come at once, isn't it?  :-)

Speaking of many things happening at the same time, we are celebrating 4 family birthdays this month.  So I took some time this week to make a birthday card for my mom.  And I'm SO EXCITED about it because I used some paper flowers that Stephanie from Always Crafting and Whimsical Wednesday made for me!!  I won an i-Rock in a giveaway on Stephanie's blog a few months ago and she was SO kind to also send a package of her beautiful handmade paper flowers and stick pins....aren't the flowers pretty??  I've been saving them for a special project and none could be more perfect than a card for my mom.  She LOVES flowers and gardening and she'll appreciate Stephanie's paper ones more than anyone I know!  :-)  I can't wait to give her this card!!

The card base is from Birthday Bash and the girl pushing the wheelbarrow is from A Child's Year.  I cut 3 circles and popped up the top 2 circle layers for some depth.  The patterned paper is from the DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies stack, which I've haven't used in quite a while, but the colors were just right for coordinating with the paper flowers.  A bit of glitter on the girl's hair ribbon and a glittery green ribbon for the top of the card...and that just about does it!  :-)  Oops, almost forgot, I stamped Happy Birthday on a tag I made from an image on A Child's Year and attached it to the inside of the card.  What do you think?

Recipe

Girl with wheelbarrow; tag for sentiment (inside card) - Cricut A Child's Year

Scalloped circle card base - Cricut Birthday Bash

Circles - Cricut George & Basic Shapes

Glittered floral patterned paper - DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies stack

Pink, green textured cardstock - Bazzill

All other cardstock - Recollections

Paper flowers with pearls - a gift from a friend   :-)

Green Stickles on girl's hair ribbon

Green ribbon from JoAnn's

"Happy Birthday" clear stamp from Clearly Wordsworth

EK Success dimensionals

Chestnut roan Cat's Eye chalk ink for inking/doodling

I'm entering this card into seven challenges:
Cooking With Cricut: Challenge #25 - Cash in Your Stash - Create a project using something that's been in your stash for at least a year.  I've had the DCWV Blossoms & Butterflies stack for 2 years and I think I may have used it once. 
Creative Cutter Room: Design Time Thursday - Hippity Hop - Create a project using 4 elements - glitter, a circle, the color yellow and some ribbon.
Die Cuttin' Divas: Challenge #10 - Time to Mix It Up! - Make a card using 2 different cuts from 2 different cartridges/dies.
FCCB: Spring Fling Cricut Crawl - Make a Cricut project that is springy and uses the colors pink, green and yellow.
My Craft Spot: Monday Challenge #3 - Happy Birthday with a Twist - Make a birthday project and include a tag.
The Paper Variety: Flowers - Add a flower or a bunch to your paper project.
Whimsical Wednesday: Challenge #2 - April Showers Bring May Flowers - Create a spring project which includes an umbrella, rain boots, flowers and/or rain drops.

Enjoy the weekend!
~Sharon C.