Birthday Blooms to Cheer You!

It was my daughter's birthday in early April, and she and her husband went off into the wilds to do a little quad riding in the sand dunes of eastern Washington.  As we would not be seeing them with their mini vacation and social distancing going on, I had a bit of time beyond her birthday to complete her card.  This was great for me, because I just had no creative mojo...social distancing seemed to take every creative bone in my body to some distance beyond my reach.  But, I had the new Stampin' Up Painted Poppies paper and dies, and I thought I'd see what I could come up with.

I attended a class card several months ago, and we made a card using some these materials, including a fishtail banner.  I liked that look so well, I thought I'd do a wee bit of casing of our hostess, Luci Kirschenbaum's design.  But, I decided my new card would be a larger horizontal card rather than vertical and with a lot more color layering.  Take a look at my finished card for daughter, Jackie:

Ingredients:  Stampin' Up products:  Cardstocks--Basic Black, Mossy Meadow, Flirty Flamingo, Poppy Parade, Whisper White.  Pattern--Peaceful Poppies dsp (2019 Jan-June Mini).  Stamps--Seaside Notions (sentiment)(2019-20).  Dies--Poppy Moments dies.  Ink--Memento Tuxedo Black.  Peaceful Poppies Sequins.  Other:  Pink Posh Evergreen Sparkle sequins.  Chatterbox verse.  Size A6: 4-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches.