If you want to make a quick and easy card, this Velvet Meadow Easiest Ever Birthday Card is the one for you! And so pretty and elegant, even if you couldn’t find an easier card to make! It’s all about the Velvet Meadow Specialty Designer Series Paper!
This paper is exceptional because it has soft flocking as part of the design on the paper. You can feel it, and it is lovely! What makes this card so easy to make is the way the design is printed on this paper, which Stampin’ Up! has been doing pretty frequently with the designer series paper. The paper is printed with a design at the top and bottom of the page so that you can cut it into 6 card fronts. Depending on what measurements you want, you can cut up this paper and have something similar and pretty on each card or project.
The card I made has a card base of Berry Burst, one of the coordinating colors with the Velvet Meadow paper. The designer paper is cut at 4″ x 5 1/4″. If you know you want to make six cards in total with this paper, just cut three strips vertically at 4″. Then trim down to 5 1/4″. You will have some plain middle pieces left but you can use the six cut pieces on card fronts.
Before adhering the designer paper to the card (just to be on the safe side!), stamp a greeting directly on to the card in the empty space. No label or anything necessary. Just stamp. I used the birthday greeting in the Scalloped Blooms Stamp Set. You’ll find it on page 46 in the new Stampin’ Up! May-August Catalog. It is part of a Suite, the Bloom Boutique Suite on page 16. You can buy it as part of a Bundle with the Scalloped Blooms Dies.
Since the card was SO easy to make, I had plenty of extra time left over from cardmaking to add just a few little embellishments, three Dreamy Flowers. You will find these in the Velvet Meadow Suite Collection. The flowers come in White, Berry Burst, and Bubble Bath. I used the Berry Burst.
That’s all there is to it when you use this particular pattern of paper that can be cut apart to make similar cards! The florals are so colorful and pretty already, but adding the flocking will make the cards extra-special!