Wildflower Designs, Simply Said, Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. I still had my "Wildly Flowering" Designer Series Paper (DSP) still sitting on my worktable so I thought I'd make another card using it before I move on. I sure do have a lot of sheet of it left! I found this pretty card on Pinterest. What drew me to it was the 3 strips of DSP. There was something about those strips that made me want to give that layout a try. You can see the original card here. Please read on to see how I put it together.

The base of the card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. The original card used a half-sheet of Misty Moonlight. Since I still have a lot of Basic White card stock in the 40 sheet pack it's more economically feasible to make a white card base. Though I do prefer a white card base because it needs nothing taped to the inside when your done with the front. 

I cut my Misty Moonlight piece at 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" and taped it to the front of the card. The next layer is a piece of the DSP and it measures 3" x 5". I taped that on top of the Misty Moonlight piece.

The strips were cut next. They are from the same package of DSP and were cut 1-1/4" x 3-3/4". You need three of these. Now mine are not cut from the same "frame". Mine were cut from a strip so the do not go together to form a full image. It's a good way to use scraps but it's also pretty when you cut the piece 3-3/4" x 3-3/4" and then cut the 1-1/4" strips. Those strips were added using Dimensionals.

A 1" x 4-1/2" piece of Misty Moonlight card stock was cut for the horizontal strip. That was taped in place. Be sure not to add tape the very ends.

The word piece was cut next. The die for this is in the "Wildflower Designs" bundle. I  cut it out of Basic White card stock.

I stamped the words from the "Simply Said" set using Misty Moonlight ink.  I stamped it to the right of the piece so I had room to add the leaves and flower buds. The Misty Moonlight leaves were punched out from the "Bough" punch. And a Crumb Cake piece was punched out of it as well. I glued those two pieces to the word piece. Dimensionals were added to the back of the word piece and it was centered on the card.

A bow was tied and glued on. It's from a retired organza spool. I like it because even though it goes over the words you can still read them.  I did not add any embellishments to the ends of the Misty Moonlight strip because I'm mailing it and I didn't want to pay the extra postage.

This was a fun card to make and, as I often do, I made a mock card using copier paper with all of the measurements written on it. I also write the date I posted the card using the layout so I can go back and look (just in case I don't understand what I'm looking at - it happens! LOL).

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