First Frost Birthday Card

Hello, Crafters.

I love everything about the Frosted Floral Suite, and like 

the Santa's Workshop Designer Series Paper (DSP), I seriously

 under-estimated the DSP!  It's called Frosted Floral and 

the designs and colours, which are all on a gorgeous

 shimmery white Cardstock (CS), are stunning. 

This suite would make a fantastic all year round suite! The

 stamps are beautifully made to produce shaded images so

 all the hard work is done for us. I chose the DSP before I

 decided on the design of my cards, 

and after that, I found it plain sailing.  

The colours in the DSP are Soft Sea Foam, Mint Macaroon

 and Tranquil Tide, so I chose Berry Burst and Tranquil Tide

 as my colour scheme for the image. I don't see this stamp 

set as a Christmas set so I made my card a birthday card,

 with a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings.

  At first I was planning on three identical sentiments using

 Tranquil Tide,  Berry Burst and Mint Macaroon. After I had

 created them, it was obvious it was going to be rather

 over-crowded so the Mint Macaroon banner bit the dust! 

For the frame, I used the largest Stitched Shape Oval Die,

 but it was just a tad too small for the branch of leaves image, 

so I snipped the last piece off, and then cut a slight

 curve to finish off the end.

 I adhered the Whisper White CS oval onto a scalloped 

oval in Tranquil Tide, and then I adhered the branch

 with the leaves using Mini Dimensionals. I had stamped

 and die cut four "thistles", but decided I only had

 room for three with the banners. 

The stems were quite long so I cut them down quite

 considerably and tucked them under the branch.I used 

the fourth "thistle" to decorate the inside of my card. 

The card base is Mint Macaroon, with a layer of Tranquil

 Tide and a top layer of the Frosted Floral DSP on the front,

 and Whisper White on the inside. The ribbon I wrapped

 around the middle is the Berry Burst Mini Ruffled ribbon.

 I finished off the front of the card by adding some 

Basic Pearls at the base of each Thistle, plus where the 

two banners meet. I hope you've enjoyed today's project;

 I certainly enjoyed creating it. 

Hubby has two days off work, so today we are going down 

to Brighton which is on the sunny, south coast. Tomorrow,

 I'll give you a quick rundown on what we did, where

 we went, and what we saw! ☺ 

I hope you have a lovely day, and until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.


Products Used

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £8.00	Tranquil Tide A4 Cardstock [144252] £8.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £9.00
Frosted Floral 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [147800] £13.00	First Frost Clear-Mount Bundle [149943] £45.75	First Frost Wood-Mount Bundle [149942] £53.00
Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146667] £33.00	Itty Bitty Greetings Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146664] £45.00	Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad [147143] £7.00
Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [144089] £3.50	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [147146] £7.00	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [144091] £3.50
Classic Label Punch [141491] £17.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] £28.00	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] £33.00
Big Shot [143263] £102.00	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] £36.00	Berry Burst 3/8" (1 Cm) Mini Ruffled Ribbon [146944] £7.50
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] £3.75	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] £6.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £3.75
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] £3.75