Birthday Cards- Casual Friday

I created these cards for Casual Friday Clean & Simple Birthday Challenge. 

I liked the brightness of these colors. I created the dimensional flower from blue, red and green cardstock.  I inked around the edges of each of the leaves, petals and red center.  I added a yellow brad in the center of the flower.  I added yellow chalk to the center on each petal (it looks green in the photo, but on the actual card it is yellow).

To create the petals, I punched 1" circles from blue cardstock with an EK Success circle punch.  Using a sticky note, I placed a circle on the sticky strip and stuck it back into the circle punch part way and punched the shape of the petal.

For this card, I punched green circles, matted them with white cardstock and used a gel pen to add dots around them.

I stamped the background of this card. First I inked a plastic ring (re-using one from my ATG adhesive).  Then I used a pencil eraser to stamp the small light green dots. Finally, cut a larger circle from sticky backed foam, adhered it to the top of a pencil and stamped with darker green ink.