Girl's Birthday Card

It's been a busy week that hasn't left much time for paper crafting, unfortunately. We had a party last night for some friends, so the week has been spent tidying the house. Not that it was bad to begin with, but I always want it to be perfect before people come over. Though, the boys' rooms were BAD to begin with : ). I think it comes from them being in the basement where I very rarely go.

I made this girl "Happy Birthday" card the other day. It utilizes the "bloom dots" cuttlebug template I bought last week. The square clips my wonderful husband found at Staples when he was there picking up some transparency markers for himself and thought I'd enjoy them. He also got me a package of red and blue spiral clips that he saw that day. The flower is from the Autumn Leaves "build a flower" set I bought a while ago. I had stamped the leaves and stem, but the green pad was just a little too bright to look good on the rest of the card so I adhered the ribbon over the stamped lines. I think it took a mistake and made the card actually better for it. If you don't like what you've done, just experiment, especially if you're just going to throw the card away or start over if it doesn't look good : ). The "Happy Birthday" is a Basic Gray rub-on I picked up on clearance last week at Roberts. I had tried some other smaller rub-ons there too, but that didn't work out, so I took it off and started over with the strip. This one worked much better! Glad I only paid less than a dollar for those rub-ons or else I might feel guilty : ). After my husband bought me the clips, I was looking through the Splitcoast Stampers gallery for ideas to use them and several people had put ribbon through them and just attached them to random places on the cards. That's where I got the idea for the clips from. The ink on the flower is chalk ink that I bought at Robert's last week. I love the different look the chalk ink gives than normal ink.