Hello Friends,
Thanks for joining me today. Today is my birthday so I have created a birthday card and the Friends of Flourishes Bloggers have a card challenge to make a birthday card. So here’s mine.
The card is monochromatic using SU paper Sahara Sand and Flourishes Classic white as well as a sheet of designer paper from the Basic Grey Cappella pad. The set I am using is Flourishes Let Them Eat Cake, which I stamped in SU White Craft Ink and embossed with white embossing powder. I trimmed the designer paper with Flourishes Boutique Cuts ribbon Natural Linen Ruffle and a brand new lace from Prima not yet in the store. I also used Spell binder dies Label Sixteen and Label Five. The Sahara Sand paper was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder that had been inked with white craft ink, it gives off subtle effects and blends well with the Cappella paper.
I used a variety of layers and textures to create the interest and keep the card from becoming flat. The embossed crest image and the great sentiment…”Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake” are two images I used from the “Let Them Eat Cake” set. Eat cake I will as my dh had a “King’s Cake” sent from New Orleans. I grew up not far from New Orleans and Mardi Gras is a big part of my life. King’s Cake is a traditional cake in countries that celebrate Carnival or Mardi Gras. The name King’s cake is taken from the celebration of Carnival or Mardi Gras which begins on January 6th of each year (Epiphany, the celebration of the three kings worshiping the Christ child) and goes on until Ash Wednesday.
Take a hop through the Flourishes Design Team to see their creations for today.
Julie Koerber
Barbara Anders
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
Dawn Burnworth
Leslie Miller
Stacy Morgan
I hope you enjoyed a peek over my shoulder today in my Atelier. Have some cake today!
Ciao,
This is beautiful! Love the lace.
Jan Marie! Happy Birthday!
Had to come onlilne after hundreds and hundred of road miles simply to wish you a very special day and new year of blessings.
Lovely monochromatic card sporting interesting layering of shades and textures highlighting ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ pops in for a timely show. Well done! Monochromatic here is shades of white fluff, crusted, shoveled, iced, drifted, or crystaline after an all day continuous flaking from the sky. Some wow kind of sparkling twelve to fifteen below zero this evening on the car thermometer. Time to pull in the woolies.
Keep Looking UP!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Jan and many, many more!!!
Happy Birthday and thanks for not only sharing your card but the inspiration you give to us with your stamps and DT members.
Happy birthday, Jan Marie. I hope your day and coming year is filled with family, friends, happiness and health.
Hugs and smiles
Happy, Happy Birthday, Jan!! Have a wonderful day…
Popping by to wish you a very happy birthday!
A very happy birthday to you, Jan ! You are so appreciated ! We probably all feel like we know you even though we have never met. Your stamps are always beautiful and timely and what more, the sentiments and script just what we are looking for . Thank you ! God bless you on your special day !
Happy Birthday, Jan Marie! I hope the Lord will bless you on your very special day! Love your card! Monochromatic cards can be a challenge but you did a great job! Hope your day is crafty!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie!!!! Hope you are blessed with a fabulous day and a wonderful year ahead!!! Your card is lovely and the team has done an amazing job for you today!! 🙂
iiiiiiiHappy Birthdayiiiiiii
And many, many more happy wishes to you 🙂
Also thank you for always being so generous with us at Spellbinders!
Have a super FUN day today and always!
Happy Birthday, Jan Marie!!! Hope you have a wonderful day! I’ve popped by all the blogs and the cards are all beautiful! I was awed by all the beautiful work!
Hope your day is sunshine and smiles!!
Hugs!
Susan
Happy Birthday Jan Marie! I hope that this is a year full of happiness, wonder and creativity. Thanks for inspiring all of us.
Happy Birthday, Jan Marie!
Jan Marie, Happy Birthday and many more!
Hope your day is a happy one. May all your wishes come true 🙂
Happy, happy, happy birthday!!! I checked out most of your birthday cards and they are gorgeous!!! You are definitely loved!!!
This card is so elegant………… love it.
And to wish you a happy birthday………… oh yes, aren’t you blessed to have a Birthday HOP! Enjoy
Happy Birthday Jan Marie.. I hope your day is filled with love and happiness. Have a blessed birthday..
This is such a beautiful card! Happy Birthday to you!!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie!
I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you for the beautiful stamps and inspirations at Flourishes. It’s my favorite place to spend all my money!
Best Wishes,
Michelle
Happy Birthday to one of the most inspirational women I have ever met! You are a superstar, Jan Marie! Have a wonderful birthday. xoxo, marcy
Beautiful card! Wish i had it… today is my DH’s bday too… I hope yours is a great one!!! Happy Birthday!
Wishing you a BIG day celebrating YOU!
I enjoy all the inspiration that all of you create!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU….
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU…..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAN MARIE…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!
Hope your day is great. ekc
Happy Birthday Jan! I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy the little blog hop your girls have put together for you!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie. I hope it is a wonderful year ahead.
You have blessed me in so many ways by giving me the opportunities I have had at Flourishes. Thank you a million times over! It is indeed a great privilege to design for you and this company!
I hope you feel very celebrated today!
…and a beautiful combination of the laces on this card too! Lovely monochrome feel!
Happy birthday!!!
Happy, Happy Birthday Jan Marie!! Hope the surprise blog hop made you smile :):)
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!
Thanks for all the amazing stamp sets!!!
God Bless!
I wish you a wonderful birthday Jan Marie…and many more! I hope all your wishes come true!
Happy Birthday! Love your card too. Very elegant.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jan Marie! May you be blessed with a wonderful birthday, and many, many more! You are loved and blessed!!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie!!! Wow what a year you’ve had. It’s so awesome to be apart of this great celebration!! Thank you for your leadership and kind heart. I will always cherish the friendship we share.
May ALL your dreams come true!!
happy, happy birthday jan! hope you have a wonderful day!
sandyh
Happy Birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day today.
I wanted to take a minute to tell you what a wonderful company you have as well as fabulous stamps. I am honored to design for Bring Beautiful Back. I think all the girls on every DT you have for this company are wonderful. That says a lot about you as well. Thank you for this opportunity. 🙂
Big Birthday Hugs,
Heather
Jan Marie,
Happy Birthday to you! You share this great day with my son, who turned 19. My birthday is on the 21st and I was induced on my birthday but.. he needed his own day. 🙂 Hope your day was fabulous. I’m so glad your wish to own a stamp company came true and I also hope that you keep up the incredible stamps etc!! Truly all beautiful pieces of art and I seem to love them all.
Best wishes for a safe, healthy and blessed upcoming year.
Happy Birthday Jan Marie! I pray that your day was as special for you as it could be. May you be Blessed richly through this next upcoming year. It has been a blessing for me being a follower and devoted purchaser of you stamps. They are all such artful additions to our collections.
Happy Birthday to you! Your card is lovely.
A Happy Birthday to you! That is one gorgious card Jan…Hugs to you!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie – I hope your birthday is as great as mine was last Oct. when I hosted a surprise birthday party for myself with my scrap and card making friends and we had a rode trip. What a day, although we didn’t get any cards made done that day, but I also rec’d lots of cards and good wishes and lots of laughs. Happpppppy Birthday again.
Gretchen
Happy Happy Birthday. Hope your day is wonderful 🙂
Jan I must say your DT’s love and respect you a great deal…what a terrific testimony that is about who you are…..Happy Day to you!
Happy Belated Birthday, Jan Marie!! I feel bad, the one day I don’t check Flourishes and the blog, I miss a great day for you! So sorry about that, but I hope it was a wonderful birthday! 🙂
Have a great weekend 🙂
Happy Belated Birthday wishes! I have just been around your blog hop to check out all the gorgeous cards this talented team of crafters have created for you and WOW!!! For someone to have so many people make so many amazing cards and say so many lovely things about them, I’m thinking you must be a very special lady who deserves nothing less!
Thank you for sharing all these wonderful greetings! 🙂
A very Happy Birthday to you!!!!!
Lovely card – beautiful and serene.
Happy Birthday, Jan and many many more! The ‘surprise’
blog hop was wonderful. You have an amazing and talented DT and friends.
Hope you had a wonderful birthday and this next year brings you many blessings! Hugs!
Have a special day!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie!! I think it should be a week long celebration for you!! Each year becomes more precious than the last – wishing you the very best dear friend!!
Happy Happy Birthday to a very special designer!
Happy Birthday to you! Your vision and inspiration has brought together a great many happy people. I love your stamps, they are so pretty and very easy to use! Have a really wonderful day!
Happy birthday. Hopping by on the hop and stopped to wish you a great day!
Happy Birthday Jan Marie!!!! Hope you are blessed with a fabulous day and the year ahead will be filled with good health and much happiness!!! Your card is lovely!! I’m off to see what the rest of the team have come up with.
Blessings Bernie
Happy Birthday Jan! Your card is stunning!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JAN! A beautiful card for a beautiful lady!!
Jan, hope you had an absolutely wonderful birthday! I so enjoyed seeing all the stunning birthday cards your DT created for your special day! You are soooo blessed to be surrounded by such amazing talent! I LOVED the card you created, too. It has such a soft, feminine feel to it!
Happy Happy Birthday! Hope your day is super fabulous! 🙂
Hi Jan Marie – I hope you had a fabulous birthday as I am coming on after the fact 🙂 This card is absolutely gorgeous! I can see I need to invest in some Flourishes stamp sets. Thanks for being so wonderful!
Happy Birthday!! Hope you had a wonderful day. Your card is lovely.
A late HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Too much working has gotten me behind…..