Happy birthday Mum

Well it was actually Mum’s birthday on the first but as her card had no patterned paper I couldn’t post it then! So here is the card I made…

I used some new to me stamps and dies to create this that I bought in a sale of old stash from Waffleflower through Seven Hills craft. This set was called Succulent and there are a few solid stamps and some outline succulent images as well as some sentiment/word stamps.

I started by creating this panel with the solid stamps and the wreath builder template with some masking. Then I stamped the line art images and added some water coloring before die cutting.

I then took another new to me die set (foliage) which I die cut some of the leaves and added ink to then too.

I stacked up those succulent die cuts to give dimension and then adhered them in place. For the sentiment I used an Altenew one for the happy birthday, and then playful alphabets dies to create Mum which I coloured in pink.

It was nice to use cream cardstock as the base for a change from white. I added foam behind the main panel and then with a different cream for the back panel.

I dry embossed a frame around and this almost fit the whole of the 6×6 card blank.

I also added a little thread just behind the sentiment and then some pearls dotted round the card for more texture.

Inside the card I added another panel of cream and stamped some of the solid images and then added some of the die cut leaves and one of the die cut succulent images I had water coloured.

I also added stamping using the word stamps from the succulent set.

I added a dry embossed frame again to go around the panel excluding the part with the image.

So happy birthday to my Mum and I hope she liked the card. I certainly enjoyed making it!

Happy crafting!

Catherine