Happy Birthday! - Saturday 14th July

Hello Bloggers!


Today's card is a birthday card I made after having a bit of a play for our next workshop in a few weeks time.It all came out of the little tag, because that was the little scrap I wanted to use up!
 I took a 6x6 card blank and then tore some polka dot coredinations paper and sanded it back for the first layer. Then I cut a piece of black card and used a Martha Stewart punch for the edge. I hardly ever use these punches now as I usually grab a die, but it was something we had decided we might use in the workshop and I do really like this one.


Next off I did use a Spellbinders die, Grand Labels 23, just to create scalloped edges on a piece of cream card, which I then slightly distressed with Mustard Seed distress ink. I stamped the sentiment using an LOTV stamp and then tied a piece of lace, layered with black ribbon around the two pieces of card and matted and layered the front of the card. 


The script is a Wendy Vecchi stamp from the Studio 490 'Love to Make Art' set. After stamping I cut around it and coloured it all over with the distress ink, then curled the top edges. The tag was a piece of scrap left over after I had been playing with Vintage Cosmic Shimmer Mists, Weathered Wood distress ink and another stamp from the above set. The colour was much lighter when I started, but I used more weathered wood to make it more in keeping with the backing paper. I used a tag as  template, punched a hole and threaded the lacey ribbon through.


The flower was made using Spellbinders Aster Flower die on cream card, coloured with the ink and topped with a yellow button from my Mum's (probably my Gran's before that!) old button jar. The little flowers were from the Flower Creations die and were a couple I'd left over from a previous card. I put a lot of 'excess' die cuts in a box and always check if I can use any of them on a project.


This was a really easy card to make, mostly  from left overs!


Thanks for stopping by,
Carole X

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