DT: Happy Little Stampers Anything Birthday challenge

Hello! Back with another birthday card made as part of my design team contribution for Happy Little Stampers for the Anything Birthday challenge. Quite nice to have a little break from the Christmas in July too!

I had a little hunt in the scraps drawer and found a panel of the Expressions in Ink dsp and decided to go with that as my starting point.

Next I grabbed some of the leftover fussy cut Perfectly Penned flowers left from the April patterned paper playtime session and then just had fun organising them.

I decided I wanted a contrasting colour though so had a look in the 6×6 papers and found this Oh So Ombré paper. Perfect for backing the main panel and creating a panel across the front.

I did add a couple of strips of card stock underneath the central strip to give it some dimension. I punched to notches at the sides too so I could wind the paper string around it and it would sit nicely in one place.

I then decided I needed the black card base so I made a 5×7 one from black card stock and then die cut the letters from the remaining card stock and stacked them up to give them dimension. I then stamped and fussy cut the Biggest Wish birthday sentiment in a contrasting colour and added it to the ribbon.

I used some black card Candi to embellish. I kept the inside of the card simple with just the white insert as I hadn’t got any of the dsp left to add inside and I had also used up the last of those fussy cut flowers too!

So pleased with the card and that’s another pouch of fussy cut elements used up … think I am on a bit of a mission to have used up as much of these as I can before the end of the year! Thinking 2024 I might then get myself some new stash … although looking around my room I have so much I still think I can’t quite justify it!

Happy crafting!

Catherine