Sharing a simple birthday card I made for my dear sweet friend Patti. I used Graphic 45's beautiful Botanical Tea paper collection. I've made a few projects from this collection and just love working with these feminine images and beautiful soft colors.
To create this card, measure and cut your pink polka dot paper to fit your card base then distress and chalk the edges. I used A7 or 5x7 card base. Cut the 3"x5" wild rose card and distress it. Then cut two small blue butterflies and one 4" doily in half. Add one small pearl to the your butterflies. Even though your pearls already have an adhesive backing, always add glue to them otherwise they maybe easily knocked off especially if they are mailed. Next cut the "Hello Friend" sentiment from the boarder paper and gather up 6 baby blue pearls (2 ea of 3 graduating sizes). If you don't have this color, you can use a Sharpie or Copics marker to color white pearls any color you'd like.
To assemble the front, adhere your distressed pink
polka dot paper first, then dry fit your doily halves under the wild
rose card so the cut edges don't show. Once your happy with its
position, mark their places and glue down your doily halves. Center and adhere your wild rose card
using 3D pop-up foam tape. Now your ready to add your flower cluster.
Here's are a few close ups to see some of the smaller details:
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| Flower Cluster Close Up |
To create the flower cluster, use Prima wired thread and wrap it several times around a slender ink pen to create these great green flower curlycues. Make three of them about and 1.25" long. Then you'll need one piece of Prima's lovely floral lace. Cut the 5 pointed flower in half creating a 3 piece section and a 2 piece section. Use these as the foundation for your flower cluster. Tuck them under the top and bottom of the pink Petaloo Botanica flower just so the lace tips peek out. Add glue to the wire and tuck your curlycue sprigs under the flower along with a few die cut leaves. Do not glue down your leaf near the "Hello Friend" sentiment until you have it securely in place. You'll need to add foam tape to the end of the sentiment tag to keep it even with the rose wild card. Once your sentiment is secure, glue your last leaf just over the beginning of the sentiment. Finely, add a couple of bumper mini roses to each side of large flower and finish off the cluster by adhering your butterfly and pearl. Finely, add your second butterfly and both lines of your graduating baby blue pearls as shown in the picture above.
Now you can move along to the inside of your card. Your welcome to leave the inside blank so you can use the card for
whatever you'd like when the time comes to use it but I like decorating
the insides also. They just feel
more 'finished' to me. So let's continue with this close-up:
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| Inside Detail |
Here I've done a bit of fussy cutting to get
the background papers, these pretty roses, leaves and a blue bird. I've grounded the flowers
with half doilies and added a little punched blue cardstock trim to compliment the bluebird. Before I adhere anything down, I cut two adjoining bird stamp images and folded them in half. I
adhered one side between the card base and pink polka dot background paper so I could use it as a closure tab to hide the magnet. If you do it this way, there won't be anything on the backside of your card leaving it nice and clean. Finely I distressed and chalked the edges, popped up the roses for a little dimension and finished it off by stamping a sweet "Happy Birthday" sentiment.
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| Simple Hidden Magnet Closure |
Adding all these layers adds some weight making your card nice and sturdy, much more like a gift all by itself rather than just a card. As a finishing touch I like to add a nice closure when I can. These little magnets hide perfectly under the little "birdy stamp" and are the perfect finishing touch to keeping heavy cards neatly closed.
Well friends, that's it for me today. Thank you so much for dropping by. If you enjoyed this little bit of inspiration I'd love to hear from you! Wishing you all a happy and healthy creative day! Hugs ~ Dawna
