Birthday Love

We are headed for some wintry weather tomorrow. We are right on the edge of snow and rain which usually means we'll get ice. Yuk! We volunteer at Head Start tomorrow morning so we'll see how that goes.
One of my personal goals for the year is to try to use up images,die cuts, and other things that I have in a box near my desk. I could probably make cards for the rest of the year with just what's in that box. So to get me started on this goal, I found 13 of these  strips with a floral image. I have no idea where I got these strips from.

So my personal challenge for the next week or two is to use these up on cards. I may make more than one of the cards if I really like the design. So I may have 13 different cards or I may decide to make duplicates. So my first card using this image is below.

So the other flower in the die cut circle is a free image from Beccy's Place:Clematis. I used the pre-colored image. The image and sentiment are die cut with MFT Stitched Circles. Then I distressed the die cuts with Mowed Lawn distress ink. The blue backing card stock is a scrap from my scrap bin and matches the card base. The doily was sitting on my desk from another project. The polka dot paper is also from my scrap bin. The sentiment is from Jak Heath. I am entering these challenges.

• Sketch Saturday: sketch 
  
• Beccy's Place: use a Beccy's Place image
• Sweet Stampers: hearts and/or flowers
• QKR Stampede: anything goes
• Outlawz Festive Friday challenge: birthday

Not looking forward to the nasty weather coming in. I don't think we've seen the sun since we've been home from vacation. Send me back to Florida please! I'll leave you with some pictures of the twins I took over the weekend. 

Arthur with their new toy from Opportunity House. Valerie liked it as much as he did.

Valerie having fun at WonderLab with one of the bubble activities.

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope your week is off to an amazing start!

Donna