Happy Birthday To You!

Today is the day I am posting my cards for our Challenge Your Stash group on SCS.  This is our 56th month of de-stash and we are in the middle of our 5th year of our challenges.  

The premise is to create a card or something else that uses only items that are in your own stamp room--nothing new is to be purchased.  The hostess each month posts their challenge to the group. Each person in the group creates their card with their own image, their own papers, their own embellishments with their own supplies--using up items from their own stash!  The card can be for any occasion and each person is encouraged to send the card on its way to someone so it can be admired.  It is a way for us to step out of the box a bit and create something that follows a challenge--isn't that what a challenge is supposed to be.  And--no money is spent as all items are to be already available in each of own stamping spaces.

Maggie posted our August challenge--Just use dies or punches on your card--no stamping!

I recently saw a set of cards that used just a die and some patterned paper for a fun card.  I can always use birthday cards, so I thought this would be a fun time to make a few--like 6!  I first picked some fun birthday paper from Bella Blvd and the Little Boy line called Toadilly Cool.  These frogs are headed to a birthday as they have their party hats on, carrying presents and they have their birthday balloons!  I picked my Lawn Fawn Giant Happy Birthday to You die, cut it three times from Pumpkin Pie and layered for added dimension.   I did not add any embellishments as I felt the background patterns were enough!

Here is the inside of my card:

If you check some of the blogs on my sidebar, you may find others who have posted their cards in the next few days. There may be more posted in the thread on SCS, so you might want to check out the link here.  We also have a keyword for the SCS Gallery--it is CYSAUG.  You might see many cards there if you do a search.  They probably will be posted today or in the next few days.

I hope you enjoyed my card and I know I am excited to check out what my other hoarders, I mean stash reducers have made!  Thanks for stopping by today!  For September, Jeanette is up for our challenge.  Be sure to check back to see what we create then!

Image/Sentiment: Lawn Fawn Giant Happy Birthday To You Die 

Cardstock:  Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive; Bella Blvd Little Boy-Toadilly Cool

Ink:  None

Accessories:  None