A Girly Birthday Card for Four Seasons August Challenge

It's so hard to believe that August has arrived and that means this is the last summer month of the year at the Four Seasons challenge blog! I hope you have more summer crafts to work on and share with us as we'd love to see it! As always we have a fun mood board to inspire you but it is optional as "Anything Summer Goes". 

August means it's "back to school" here in my part of the world and I chose this cute image which reminds me of a little girl going back to school but I will be needing a girly birthday card very soon so that is what I made. I was inspired by the balloons on the bottom right along with some of the colors from the balloons. 

The image is from the Penny Black set Let's Play 30-468, stamped with Memento Tuxedo ink on Xpress It blending cardstock then colored with my Copic markers. I chose a gingham paper from my stash. I probably had this for almost as long as I've been papercrafting and I thought the colors were a perfect fit to match some of the markers I used. 

I embellished my card with some pretty butterflies made with a Martha Stewart punch. I also added some shiny gems and lots of sparkles. You can never go wrong with a sparkly bicycle, don't you agree??

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The sentiment is from the set by Veggie Stacks by Colorado Craft Company. I really like this pretty font for a girly card. I almost forgot to mention, but I used a Tim Holtz stencil set on the background from one of his "stamps and stencil" combo set. 

I plan to share with these challenges:

• AAA Birthday Challenge - Birthday and Sport (biking)
• A Perfect Time To Craft - AG
• Ally's Angels - AG
• Classic Design Challenge - AG
• Crafts Galore Encore - AG
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils
• Creatalicious Challenges - AG
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• Do-Al(l) Kreatives - AG ?
• Double D - Cards for Kids
• Krafty Chicks - AG
• Paper Shelter - AG
• Passion For Markers Challenge - Dies or Punches (I used a punch)
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Use PB Stamps
• Simon Says Stamp - AG
• Sweet Stampin - Anything but Square
• The Creative Crafters - AG
• The Paper Funday - Stencils
• TIME OUT Challenges - Pick 2: Torn, Transport, Star, Stripes, Rainbow, Book (I chose Transport and Stripes)

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