TE Challenge--Belated Birthday

Hello out there! Sorry to be a stranger this week, but it's my last week with my sweet hubby before he takes off for Iraq...I'm sure I can count on all my friends to understand that;)

He has been out-processing the past couple days so when he's gone I've been sneaking a few minutes here and there to create a card:) I do so miss it when I'm not in my stamp room!

I've been a Kit Subscriber of Taylored Expressions for about 3 months now and was SUPER excited to hear that they're Splitcoast's newest Member Company! There is nothing like having all my favorite stamp companies all in one spot, and that spot being my little home away from home, Splitcoast Stampers!

As a welcome to SCS challenge, Taylor wants us to flood the gallery with all things TE! Well I've had these adorable Ala Carte stamps for a couple months and wanted to get them inky!

I love this sweet stamp with these little birthday birdies,, they're called "Belated Birthday-Stand Out" stamp is actually of only four birds, so I stamped it repeatedly along the card bottom and then colored them in with Copics. I wanted this to be a relatively simple card, that's why I went with stamping right on the card front, but then I needed to add something to the top so I pulled out some papers from the January Key Ingredients Kit . The ribbon and buttons are also from the January KI kit! The big scalloped border with the fun holes is from EK Success.

Here's what I did with the inside of the card:

That sentiment also comes with the birdies:) I also added a fun picket fence using the Picket Fence Border die.

Okay, that's it for me, time to think up something for dinner *yeah, nothing like waiting until 5:00, lol! Later, gators!