Hello crafty friends! I feel like it’s been a while since I shared a blog post for my beloved Mama Elephant projects, but I'm back, with a glittered sparkly birthday card featuring the new Birthday Celebrations Stamps and CC dies. During last weeks Stamp Highlights, you may have noticed that I made all of my cards using matching colors and papers, and I continued the theme to this project as well. I find it easier and quicker to reduce the choices for markers and papers when I match my cards into little collections, especially when i need multiple projects at the same time for releases. Bonus, everything is cohesive and looks beautiful when shared together too.
As always, I made my marker choices for coloring by matching my patterned paper pack. I know that all of the papers with match each other, and the colors will coordinate seamlessly since I'm sticking to a palette that a professional has compiled. After stamping and coloring all of my images I ran them through the die cutting machine using the Birthday Celebration CC dies. I built an arched centerpiece for my scene using the B2B Arches CC die set and adding an additional popped up layer of coppery glitter cardstock for the “floor”. Before assembling I gently inked the edges of my arch with oxide inks and added a splattering of coppery paint.
I centered my arch onto a stitched panel cut using the largest layer from the Combo Rectangle CC die set then added one more hand cut layer of coppery glitter to layer that upon (I may have cut my little floor layer from the middle of this panel). Wink wink. I adhered my images and the birthday banner to this panel when I decided I would make an additional swag of cardstock circles to layer over top. I had the circles on my desk already from a previous card, so I just glued them to some black thread and taped the thread behind the panel.
I love stripes and use them all the time, so there are always tons of striped paper scraps at my disposal. I trimmed one to fit along the side of my card back and centered my decorated card panel on top. I really love that the little circle swag moves a little bit. It will lay flat in the envelope but have movement when the card is handled. I also really love the subdued glam that the glittery copper cardstock adds to these cards. It’s all cute enough for a young person but “grown up” for an adult, and to me that’s exactly what I strive for when planning my cards.
I hope you like this card and check out the Birthday Celebration set if you haven’t already added it to your collection. Thank you so much for stopping by, Davina
