Back on Track

It’s taken several days to get back on track after having been away for ten days. We had a great visit with Sarah and her family, and two good road trips, including some opportunities for photography–photo walk posts to come.

But today I want to enter a card into two challenges. The first is a brand new challenge: AAA Birthday Challenge. I’m hoping to enter a card in each of their challenges from now on since I’m always in the need of a birthday card. I’ve always thought I’d like to make a commitment to one challenge, but have never taken the plunge. This challenge lasts for nearly a month, so even traveling shouldn’t interfere.

I’m also entering the card in their sister challenge: AAA Cards which has been a favorite for awhile. This is their fifth birthday celebration, so birthday cards are the feature here as well.

This is a card for a blogging friend who I hope has received the card before she sees it here.

I don’t often choose to do selective coloring, but I like this one quite a bit. It was a Papertrey Ink watercolor “Bold Blossoms” card that I fussy cut after water coloring the main blossom with Altenew’s 36 pan watercolors. I adhered it to a Pale Peony cardbase that I ran through a dotted embossing folder. All it needed then was the die cut sentiment from “Penned Elegance.”

The new Simon Says card kit was waiting for me when I got home, and thanks to some gift certificates I have some new stamps and dies arriving from Pink Fresh Studio so there’s lots to play with this week. Tomorrow we have a half day road trip planned to the Finger Lakes so there probably won’t be much crafting time. Hopefully, I’ll get back into a good routine later in the week.