Happy Birthday - SSSC78


This week, I tried the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge for the first time.  Here's a birthday card using three of my new favorite stamp sets: Punched Posies, Aviary, and Curly Cute.  I chose the colors for the card based on the Designer Series Paper (DSP) I used from the Greenhouse Gala DSP pack.  I really like the zig-zag patter of this piece used, so I cut out a strip following the zig-zag pattern and placed it as the back layer.

The Punched Posies pieces are all popped up on dimensionals.  For the Happy Birthday sentiment, I used a Baja Breeze Stampin' Write Marker to color the 'birthday' first - stamped it - then colored the 'happy' next - stamped it.  Both using the stamp-a-ma-jig for perfect line-up.

And isn't the little birdie in the cage just adorable?  I eyeballed this stamping, stamping the birdie first and then the cage - it's a little askew, but fine with me :).

And last but not least, I made an error with the ribbon, so had to fix it - and lo and behold - I came up with a new way to tie a ribbon!  My plan was to add a 'stay put bow' (see tutorials link on the left), but once I affixed the bow, it covered the Happy Birthday sentiment and it didn't look right!  So, I tried a few things and came up with this - and I love it!

Let me see if I can explain it without pictures...

First, I punched a hole where I wanted the bow with my trusty Crop-A-Dile.  Then, I folded my ribbon piece in half and fed the folded end through the hole from behind the card.  Next, I took the loose ends of the ribbon and fed them through the loop on the front of the card, so were pointing upward.  And last, I just tied a bow and it looked great, so I went with it!  Let me know what you think!

Stamp Sets Punched Posies, Curly Cute, Aviary
Ink Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Baja Breeze, Real Red
Paper Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Greenhouse Gala DSP, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories Fancy Flower Punch, 1-3/4" Scallop Circle Punch, 5-Petal Flower Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Crop-A-Dile, Stampin' Dimensionals, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Daffodil Delight 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon

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