Simply Said, Simply Zinnia, Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I found such a beautiful card that I had to make one. You can see the original card here. There were no instructions on how to make the card so I had to wing it. Please read on to see how I put this card together.

The base of the card is a folded half-sheet of Basic Black card stock. It opens on the bottom and the fold is on the top. 

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and taped it to the inside.

A 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of Granny Apple Green was cut for the layer. I also die cut the leaves and other greenery from the center of that piece before I used it for the layer. Getting the most out of a piece of card stock, huh? When I cut layers that are thin I tend to cheat the ruler on the cutter. What I mean here is for the Granny Apple Green piece, not much of it will be showing so when I cut it at the 3-7/8" I move my card stock over the 3-7/8" line so I no longer see it. And the same with the 5-1/8" mark. It gives it a hair more but that hair more makes a difference.  Especially when you do the opposite on the top layer. So for the Basic Black piece I make sure I pass that mark on the cutter on the other side. So the Granny Apple Green piece is a hair larger and the Basic Black is a hair smaller. Then I have more of the bottom color showing. 

Next I cut a piece of Basic Black that measures 3-3/4" x 5" and I textured it using the "Distressed Tile" embossing folder. As I stated above, I cheated the cut by cutting on the shorter side of the line. I hope I made that clear in the above paragraph.

Now came the fun. All the pieces. I cut the flowers using Crushed Curry card stock for the petals. Melon Mambo for the inside and Daffodil Delight for the star looking ring on top of the Melon Mambo piece. I cut two sets of each.

Melon Mambo was used for the flower center and the upper left flower pieces. 

Daffodil Delight was used for the rings on each of the larger flowers and for the star looking flowers on the Granny Apple Green branch looking thing.

The leaves, the stem with leaves and the branch looking thing were all cut using Granny Apple Green card stock. 

The words are from the "Simply Said" set and were cut using the die from the "Labeled With Love" bundle.  Black Memento ink was used to stamp the words. 

Now let's assemble the front. I used tape, yes tape for the word piece. I chose tape because I needed to slip pieces under it. I normally use glue on top of textured layers.

The first thing I added was the top large flower. I used glue on the center part of the flower only. Then I set it in place on the front of the card. I made sure a petal went over the word piece. Then I added glue to a large leave and slipped that under the flower and word piece on the right. The branchy looking piece with the star flowers was added next. I just added a dot of glue on each star and set it in place under the larger flower.

The second larger flower was added next. Again I put the glue on the center of the flower. The bottom leaf was glued on next and then the upper larger leave was added. I added a little bit of glue to the Melon Mambo flower on the bottom part of the flower (on the back) and slipped that under the larger flower.  And that was it. It went together so quickly. I checked the word piece and it seems to be holding but I did cover every inch of it with tape. 

I think it's such a pretty card. Can you see why I just had to make one? I can see myself making more in the near future. I have a few people with birthdays coming up and I think they would love a card like this.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's birthday card,
Wanda