Belated Birthday Card

This week has been quite the week.  I got a shipment of new stamps. Yea for me! . My little green machine "The Cuttlebug" came home to me .. Double Yea for me!   Last but NOT least my girlfriend wished upon a star and her wish came true.  The Scor-Pal "Fairy" granted her wish.  Just outta the blue she got a note that a brand new Scor-Pal was coming her way and in like three days it was here. If you have never seen this amazing item check it out.  I'm telling you this couldn't of happened to a greater person.  When she told me she was beyond belief but I told her good things happen to good people and there is no one better than her.  She has 5 boys and her husband works out of the state so she goes with out a lot but if you need anything she is right there.  I need to say a HUGE THANK YOU to the fairy.

Now on to the real reason I'm posting.  My cousin told me on Friday that it was her boyfriends birthday on Sat.  WHAT~!  Why didn't she say something sooner.  I hate to be late on cards... (even though I usually am.. lol)  So to my desk to make a B-lated birthday card and of course, make it so that it matches some challenges.

One of my favorite challenges, Oh La La Creations- Challenge #50  said to use a button, bow & Bling..  Now this card was for a big burly guy and for some reason buttons and bows don't come to mind..  I got the bow slipped in but buttons.. it just didn't seem right so here is what I did.  The middle of my flower is a button and then I put part of the sentiment on it and popped it up.  They didn't say how to use the button.. Hope it's not cheating.. heheh.

Hope you can see it. It is white also, so it blends into the paper when I took the picture. 

Part of my new stash of stamps I got this week was a set from Craft Lounge - Lil Pea-Nut.  The elephant is one stamp and the bubble blower and bubbles is another so I did some masking and made him hold the blower in his trunk.  You can't see it but the bubbles have Crystal Effects so they have some dimension on them.   The grass and the flowers are also little stamps that came with the set and I did masking for that also.  The sentiments "I Blew It.."  &  "Sorry I Forgot" are also from set.

The flower is a punch I just bought at a garage sale for $3.00.  It's a Marvy punch.   I also bought a set of stamps (never opened or used) for $3.00 (it had the original price of $24.99 on them) which are Doodlebug Design - Tags.  That is the scroll around the "Sorry I forgot",  I stamped it and then cut it out.   What finds !!!

Here are the other Challenges:
Artful Inkables #16 - Birthday  
Sew Many Challenge #9 - Punch it. 
Cute Card Thrusday #105 - Dimensions
Dancing in PJ #23 - Color Challenge 

Peachy Keen #25 - Sketch  

Pile it on #12 - ANIMAL-RIFFIC