Birthday Card featuring the Sweet & Sour Specialty DP

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  I had actually meant to post a card for you Friday since I actually did have one made, but time just got away from me.  This week Soph and I (and our families) are visiting our parents. While it’s good to be “home” and wonderful to see our parents, going away is always a challenge.  There’s just so much packing and preparation, not just for going away, but in prepping to take what work we can with us.  These are the times that Soph and I wish we could hitch up our stamp studios to our vehicles. 

Anyways, we did pre-make all our projects for the blog this week so we will have a project to share with you every day. 

Today’s card is a bright and colorful birthday card made with the Sweet & Sour Specialty Designer Paper.  I have to tell you I just love the bright bold colors and patterns of this paper, in particular the dotted pattern I chose for this card.  It’s at times like this that I wish I could buy singles of our papers, because if I could, I’d for sure stock up on these two patterns.

1. Take a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of textured Very Vanilla CS and fold it in half with a bone folder to create a 5 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ card.
2. Cut two 2″ x 2″ squares of the orange dotted DP and two 2″ x 2″ squares of the Rose Red DP.  Stick the DP squares to the card front, leaving about a 1/8″ space in between the DP squares.
3. Cut a 1 3/4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of textured Pink Pirouette DP and stamp the greeting “birthday” in the bottom right corner of the CS in Basic Black Classic ink.
4. Center and stick the Pink Pirouette CS strip to the card front with SNAIL adhesive.
5. Punch a scrap of Pumpkin Pie CS with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.  Stick the punched border to the Pink Pirouette CS strip just above the greeting using Tombow Multi-purpose adhesive.
6. Gather up some chipboard letters that spell the word “happy”.  Ink them up with Pumpkin Pie Craft ink.  Sprinkle on Iridescent Ice embossing powder and heat with your heat tool.
7. Stick the letters onto the Pink Pirouette CS strip with Tombow adhesive.
8. “Thread” two Pumpkin Pie buttons with small sliver of Pumpkin Pie CS.  Stick the buttons to the card front with mini glue dots.  You’re done!

Well, I hope you enjoyed today’s card, and we’ll be back tomorrow!

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Stamps: Fundamental Phrases
Ink: Basic Black Classic ink, Pumpkin Pie Craft ink
Paper: textured Very Vanilla CS and Pink Pirouette CS; Pumpkin Pie CS, Sweet & Sour Specialty DP
Accessories: SNAIL adhesive, mini glue dots, Tombow Multi-purpose adhesive, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, Brights Designer Buttons, heat tool, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, chipboard letters