Floral Birthday Card

Posted on 2nd August 2016 by Nicole Mullen
Filed under Card Making Ideas, Projects And Cards By Type, Happy Birthday Card Ideas, Design Team

Hello everyone, 

Nicole here today to share a card with you showing how I made a fun birthday card using beautiful Papermilldirect card. Supplies used:

• Papermilldirect New White Super Smooth Card
• Papermilldirect White Linen Card
• Papermildirect Black Smooth card (250gsm)
• Altenew Floral stamps and Label love stamps
• Inks 
• Adhesive and scissors

To start off I stamped out all of the roses from the Altenew stamp set onto the Super Smooth Card. This is a layering stamp set, so you build up the image in layers using coloured inks. The smooth card takes the ink wonderfully and gives a beautiful finish. Tip: I only had one green ink, so double stamping the second layer gives a darker effect and looks like you have used a darker ink.

I set these aside to try - I used dye ink so I like to let them fully dry and soak into the paper. I then went on to work out the angle on my white linen panel. I laid it over the black card panel at the angel I wanted.

I then flipped it over and traced around the excess....

Then cut this marked excess off and got left with a fun angled panel for my card.

I duluted some black soot distress ink and added some splatters of it onto this white panel.

While this was drying I fussy cut out all of my flowers and leaves. By the time I was done with this the black splatters were dry and I could start aranging the flowers and leaves on the card. I aranged them as I liked and glued them down.

I placed the sentiment over the top of the flowers.

I added a scattering of some gem stones, and that completed the card! I hope you enjoyed it, and you get inspired to try some offset angles on your cards, it makes for a fun effect!

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