Cute as a Cupcake

Happy Friday to everyone!
Quiet week here...attempting to use up some of the scraps I have collected...which is now a drawer and overflowing.  It's a bad habit...I keep every little scrap...never know when I will just need a small square of something!  Know the feeling?

Anyhow, I ended up using new paper for today's card.  Didn't have any scraps in the colors or theme that I wanted :)  I followed the sketch at Sweet Sunday Sketch for this card.

I used the inspirational photo at the Pinspirational Challenge for my colors.  I really wanted the colors to pop and be completely different than any color combo I have used in the past.  So I went bright!  I loved this paper when I picked it up from the discount racks a few weeks ago.  Knew it would be perfect for a birthday card.  I was right!

The adorable little cupcake girl is Party Hardy from Saturated Canary.  She's colored with pencils in all those bright colors.  I love the Saturated Canary images.  All the layers are so much fun to color.  I don't feel like they all have to match.  They can be mish-mash, random colors pulled from the background.  Makes them that much more fun!

I added a dot of glossy accents to the bright red cherry and some glitter details around the image.

The banner is cut from the cricut Birthday Bash cartridge.  I did use a scrap on the banner!  That pink paper...yeah it was a scrap about 1 1/2 inch by 3 1/2 inch!  Perfect size to make pennants with!
I punched out and layered a bunch of the little hearts on the ends of the banner then glittered them.

The flags under the image are pieces of ribbon.  I've had this green heart ribbon forever!  I loved it when I bought it...but lime green is not a very popular color for me to use :)
The flags and the sentiment are framed in pink.  Then I completed the inside!

 It's a lot simpler of a card than I had originally planned it to be...but I think stepping out of my color comfort zone makes up for the lack of details :)

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    Sweet Sunday Sketch #157
    Saturated Canary #16-Happy Birthday
    {Pin}spirational Challenge #4-Photo Inspiration
    Paper Makeup #33-Birthday
    The Pink Elephant #145-Yellow
    Celebrate the Occasion #60-Happy Birthday-Must use Ribbon
    Ladybug Crafts #59-Birthday
    Ribbon Carousel #50-Anything Goes
    Totally Papercrafts #114-Saturated Colors

Have a great weekend!!!