If you want to make an extra-special card, make one like this Velvet Meadow Happy Birthday Card. This is one where you can let the designer paper do the work! This Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper features soft, muted colors, papers that can be cut apart into panels for cards, and specialty flocking you can feel, giving your card a soft, touchable texture to elevate its style! It will be beautiful used as scrapbook pages as well.
This Velvet Meadow DSP is part of the Velvet Meadow Suite Collection. If you want to have it all, from paper to stamp set to dies to embellishments, plus velveteen paper, the Suite is easy to order with one number instead of ordering each item. Anything you make with this paper or Suite will be something special.
This card has a card base of Bubble Bath cardstock. The paper layered in the background is one of the soft, neutral patterns on the “other side” of the floral side of the paper. This one really makes the card design look so soft. The flowers at the bottom are fussy-cut from the bottom of one of those panels which you can cut from the special 12″ x 12″ sheet into three 4″ strips, then cut each top and bottom to measure 5 1/4″, which will leave a little bit of scrap from in between.
You don’t need to fussy-cut “perfectly” around the flowers, just use a small pair of scissors, turn the paper back and forth, and don’t worry about it. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals, which, I think, gives it a fancier look!
For the greeting, I stamped the birthday greeting from the Scalloped Blooms Stamp Set in Berry Burst ink, and die cut it with one of the many labels in the Sweet Words & Labels Dies. These dies are part of the Silly Old Bear Suite Collection. I really like this set of dies! They will all be very useful.
Since I popped up the flower panel at the bottom of the card, I adhered the greeting flat on the card. But first, to help it stand out a tiny bit, I used a Bubble Bath Stampin’ Blend marker to lightly draw the brush end around the diecut to give it a little border or faux layer. For an embellishment, I added three of the little Dreamy Flowers on the diecut, two in Bubble Bath and one White.
Click HERE to see a simpler card I made with this paper.
This turned out to be a very pretty card, just starting with that floral pattern cut from that one sheet. The greeting was the right size to take up some space at the top of the card, and the popped-up panel at the bottom gives an extra-special look.
