True Beauty Birthday Wishes

Colorful splash of inks with Creativity Abounds Blog Hop

It’s time for our Creativity Abounds Blog Hop. We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world- all with different styles- who hope to inspire you to create beautiful cards and send them to friends and family.

Here is a peak at our design team. Join us for one of our Stamp Camps and you’ll get to meet everyone!

This month our theme is Birthdays! Since we send so many birthday cards each year, it’s good to have lots of ideas! This month I have been focusing on using the True Beauty Beauty Bundle. The card I created for our Creativity Abounds tutorial also uses this bundle. It’s so beautiful and versatile.

True Beauty Birthday Wishes card from Stampin' Up! Pretty pink, coral, merlot and greens with gold accents.

Using these stamps is such a pleasure. They have a “watercolor” look without any extra effort. It was fun to stamp leaves, flowers, and the stem and then layer on more blooms. This is a stamp set that can look so different with different colors. The “Birthday Wishes” sentiment from Garden Birdhouses worked perfectly in the spot on the front. This layout was inspired by a card created by Mikaela Titheridge.

INstructions

Cut a Pear Pizza card base 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and score at 4 1/4″. Burnish the fold.
Adhere a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of the leaf pattern of DSP on the front.
On a piece of scrap paper, stamp the flower in Polished Pink and the rose in Calypso Coral. Die cut with the corresponding die cuts.
On a 5″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Basic White, stamp the stem with two leaves on the lower right angling up toward the middle. Add a Merry Merlot flower just above the leaf on the left. By placing the two die cut flowers on the piece of Basic White without adhesive, plan where you need to stamp the other elements.
Stamp leaves in Old Olive. Stamp a cluster of flowers in Balmy Blue and a small flower in So Saffron making sure they will be partially visible when the two “blooms” are placed on the front.
Using a scrap of Mossy Meadow card stock, die cut on “sprig cluster” and glue so it will poke out from under the die cut blooms.
Adhere the flowers to the front with dimensionals when you are satisfied with your stamping.
Use Pear Pizzaz ink to stamp “Birthday Wishes” from the Garden Birdhouses stamp set on the front.
Using Whisper White Crinkled seam binding ribbon, tie a small bow and attach to the
Add a few gold gems of your choice around the card.
On a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Basic White, stamp “Hope each moment of your day is as special as you are” as well as another sprig of flowers with Pear Pizzaz ink. Adhere to the inside of the card base.

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Blog Hop

Here’s the best part of this post- the chance to be inspired by the rest of the team. I know you won’t be disappointed by their cards.

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