CTD#176 - Birthday Wishes

Hello friends!  Before I get to my CTD card today I wanted to apologize for the fact that over the last few days I've been having a problem with my blog.  For some reason when you visit my blog all that shows up right away is my header and left sidebar, the contents of my blog seem to take forever to load and finally appear but they are there.  I've gone over my blog and can't find anything wrong other than the fact that my counter that counts the number of visitor is now missing.  So if you could please bear with me while I try and figure out a way to fix what's going on I would appreciate it, thank you.

On to my card...It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge! 

Joan is our hostess for this week and she has some pretty colors and a vintage looking photo to inspire all of us.  We hope you'll take the time to play along!

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Happy Day along with the coordinating die.  I also used two other PTI dies, the banner die and doily details as well as the MFT rolled rose die.  For the designer paper I used some Fine & Dandy My Mind's Eye.  After putting this card layout together I actually think I like it (I can't always say that).  I wasn't so sure as I was making my card but now that I look at the layout I think I'll use it again.  I've had a thing for banners lately as you can see by a few of my cards this week.

Be sure to check out what the other design team members have come up with for this week's Color Throwdown challenge!

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Keva Brown - How Now Brown Kow

Kristin Eberline - Mindless Creativity

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations
Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Stacy Morgan - Twinshappy January Guest Designer

Have a great day!