This "Curly Cute" Birthday Card…is really cute! I just love a square card…for some reason I find them to be special!

It's time to play the PPA (Pals Paper Art) Challenge! This time it is a color challenge! You do not have to be a PAL to participate with these challenges…please go to the PPA website and check it out – think about playing along next time! I am and I would love for you to join the fun!

I am "squeaking" this in last minute but I was waiting until the last minute as this was a card I made for my Father-In-Law yesterday! I am super excited about this because it TOTALLY makes me smile – fun, fresh and just different! Here is the color palette that we had to work with! Fun Spring colors!

Fun…right! The Polka Dot Parade Designer Paper made the POP factor WOW!!! I knew that I was going to use this paper the minute that I saw Marina Mist was a color in this challenge! I forget to use the Tasteful Trim Bigz XL Die, but for some reason this immediately came to my mind using all 3 colors!

Knowing that turning 82 is a milestone in itself, I decided that using the Typeset Alphabet Bigz would be perfect (remember a couple of blogs ago I said I use this more than I thought) – well it's true! The "Happy Birthday" is from the Curly Cute Stamp Set – an "A list" in my opinion!

Framing it out with the Labels Collection Framelits worked out perfectly! You can see that I did it using all of the colors and then I did something I rarely do – using brads! The Subtle Brads were perfect!

The finishing special touch is the candles…..toooooo darn cute! I actually lit them – blew them out to give it a special touch…then  I just popped them on with glue dots! I think that this was the "icing on the cake"!!!

I hope you have enjoyed today's post! I appreciate you stoppin' by and I appreciate your support! I love your comments and feedback and it is YOU that makes me what to continue to create, inspire and do what I do!

I would LOVE to have you be a PAL…it is the most rewarding and "fun" thing I have done for myself! I am coming up on a year and I would have never ever imagined that I would have so many "cyber friends"  Please email me and I would love to talk and share my passion!

Have a super day…and until tomorrow!!!