Have a Lovely Birthday

  

I created this card for a friend's upcoming birthday. The "Symmetry" lesson on Day 3 of My Favorite Things' Summer School 2020 inspired the design. The symmetry on my card actually runs along both the horizontal & vertical axes of the panel.

I began with the flowers. I used MFT's "Watercolor Flowers" stamp set (discontinued) and the coordinating dies. I die cut 2 sets of flowers & leaves first, since the dies are solid & it is a bear to try to line them up after stamping. I put the negative space from die cutting on my Cricut sticky mat that I cut down to fit into my MISTI stamp positioning tool. With that butted into the corner of my MISTI, all I had to do was stick the die cuts to the mat in the appropriate spaces, line up the stamps & pick them up with the door of my MISTI, and stamp away. I used Hero Arts Lemon Yellow, Lawn Fawn Sunflower, & MFT Pineapple inks for the yellow flowers; MFT Peach Bellini, Hero Arts Orange Soda, & MFT Coral Crush for the smaller peach flowers; Lawn Fawn Peach Fuzz, Apricot, & Guava for the larger peach flowers; and Hero Arts Bubble Gum, Lawn Fawn Wild Rose, & Memento Rhubarb Stalk for the pink flowers. For the leaves, I used Memento New Sprout & Pear Tart, adding Hero Arts Lime Green for the third layer on the larger leaves. I used Gina K Charcoal Brown ink for all the flower centers.

I stamped my greeting, from MFT's "Birthday Greetings" (discontinued), in the center of a blue panel, and heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. I adhered that to my white card base, and arranged my flowers above & below. I taped the flowers in place temporarily with low-tack painter's tape, then lifted them one-by-one, applied glue to the back, and stuck everything down. I like the look of the flowers extending onto the white border of the card base. I cut off the bits that were overhanging the top & bottom edges, and that finished this card.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create August 2020 Challenge: "Anything Goes" (not playing the twist)
Die Cut Divas: "Flowers"