Delightful Wishes, Spotlight on Nature, Labeled With Love, Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a birthday card to share with you using the "Delightful Wishes" bundle. Please read on to see how the card was made.

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

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Old Olive card stock for the layer. In the center of that piece I cut the large Old Olive circle from the "Spotlight on Nature" bundle. And from the center of that circle I cut the smaller circle under the birthday greeting. Talk about making use of all of a quarter sheet of card stock! But with the rising prices of things, you have to. And Stampin' Up! will be raising the cost of their card stock in the new catalog. SO if you can, stock up now. I think it's around $2 or more per package. And Basic White and Very Vanilla are going to go from 40 sheets to 24 sheets. OUCH! This is why I tend to make my cards with a White base and add my colors on top of that. Fortunately I have a LOT of white so I'm good there. So cutting your layers from other layers on your card makes a whole lot more sense now! 

Anyway, I cut a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Floral Delight" 12" x 12" package, it measures 3-3/4" x 5". I taped it to the Old Olive layer and then that was taped to the card base.

The flowers are from the "Delightful Wishes" bundle and were stamped using Lemon Lolly for the main petals and Daffodil Delight for the details. The branch was stamped using Pecan Pie and the leaves are stamped using Old Olive. I cut them out using a die from the "Spotlight on Nature" bundle. I glued it to the large Old Olive circle. I used glue because there isn't a lot on the large circle to tape, plus the glue allows me to slide it around a bit to get it centered. Once glued I taped the piece to the front of the card.

The word piece was taped to the small Old Olive circle. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on the front of the card.

I added  three crystal rhinestones that I had colored using my dark Daffodil Delight Blends pen. And the card was done.

This was a very quick and easy card to make. Though I think the flowers could have been done using Daffodil Delight for the solid part and Crushed Curry for the details. They would blend better with the DSP.

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