Bodacious Birthday Card

If you’ve been reading my blog at all, you’d have picked up by now that I am what I call a “simple” stamper.  For the most part I specialize in clean, colorful simple card designs.  Because I have a hard time visualizing a card from start to finish, I find that I often need a “springboard” to get me going.  In this case, I turned to one of Stampin’ Kubs cards.  I really admire his clean, simple style and interesting layouts.  Once I’ve got the general layout design I decide on the stamp set(s) that I want to use. Once I’ve got that figured out, I take a look through my embellishments to see if anything “catches my mood”.  In this case, I came across my “Sweet Shop” ribbon collection and picked my favourite design.  Once I had that, I started fishing through my cardstock drawers (I have 2 filing cabinet drawers dedicated to my 8.5 x 11 cardstock) and started trying different color combinations.  This is finally what I settled on:  Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, Rose Red and So Saffron. The stamp sets I used were  Bodacious Bouquet and It’s Your Birthday.  I used my corner rounded to create the scalloped edge on my Almost Amethyst strip of cardstock (you can see a quick tutorial of it by Beate Johns HERE).  I stapled the piece of ribbon onto the Almost Amethyst.  The flower was done using the rose red and so saffron Stampin’ Write markers.  I added a little dabs of crystal effects and glitter to the center spots for a little “bling”.  I then cut the flower out, leaving a small white border and mounted it on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The swirly stem was stamped directly on the card front.  For a full listing of supplies, please click on the card and you’ll be re-directed to my SCS gallery.  All supplies are Stampin’ Up!.