An easy way to find ideas for cards to make is to look in the Stampin’ Up! catalogs and copy, or copy some things and change others! I saw a sample card in the Occasions Catalog on page 8 that inspired this Birthday Bouquet Thank You Card. This photo looks like it is layered on a Whisper White base with the usual margin, but that is just the background, the designer paper actually covers the front of the card with no margins. This is a great way to use up some scraps of designer series paper. Just cut strips of various widths, play around and see what order looks good to you, and adhere! On this card I used the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper and a strip of Gold Foil. The greeting is from the Fabulous Four Stamp Set.
To embellish the card I used a small gold foil doily in the Metallic Foil Doilies cut in half and just stuck underneath the greeting strip. I also added a Bow Paper Clip Embellishment. Since it is a paper clip and has that extra piece on the back, I cut that part off with my old Stampin’ Up! Rubber and Craft Scissors, if you have those. I used the tiniest dabs of the Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the back of the Bow Paper Clip to hold it on the card.
Just look through your designer paper or scraps and see what you could to make a card like this one!