Layering Leaves. Wildly Flowering, Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a birthday card to share with you using the "Wildly Flowering" Designer Series Paper (DSP). I thought I'd use this DSP and the Wild Wheat card stock since it's all retiring soon. Out with the old in-colors and in with the new. And I have lots of card stock left so I'd better make a few cards using it to feel better about having so much left. Please read on to see how I made today's card.

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

This card has several layers including one hidden one. The largest layer is a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Wild Wheat card stock. On top of that is a 3-3/4" x 5" piece of Basic White card stock. Then on top of that I had cut a 3-1/2" x 4-3/4" piece of Basic White (the hidden layer) that will be used to tape the DSP to. 

The DSP was cut at 3-1/2" x 3" for the top piece and on the backside of the top piece is the tannish colored image. It measures 1-3/4" x 3-1/2". I taped these pieces to the hidden piece of card stock. 

A 5" piece of ribbon was cut to go across where the two pieces of DSP meet. My ribbon is from a spool of retired Soft Suede. It compliments the colors on the card so I went with it. I have a lot of that to use up too. I taped the ends of the ribbon on the back of the Basic White piece and then taped that to the larger Basic White layer. That was taped to the Wild Wheat layer and then it was all taped to the front of the card base.

The words are from the "Layering Leaves" set. It's going to retire too. I really liked this set, it has a lot of great words all in one set. A stampers dream set.  I stamped the words using Misty Moonlight ink and then I punched then out using the "Heartfelt Hexagon" punch. I set the words in place using Dimensionals.

I had some retired "Genial Gems" that I added to the front of the card for a little bling.  And the card was done.

This was a very simple and quick card to make. I love the simple layout and could see myself using it to make cards using some of the other DSP I have in my stash.

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