The Best Birthday Ever

 

A woman I met at a virtual retreat last Fall has a birthday coming up soon. I decided to pull out the Gina K. Wreath Builder Template & coordinating "Wreath Builder" stamp set for her card. The theme of Creative Knockouts' current challenge, "Spring is in the Air," inspired the bright color palette.

I first cut a piece of white cardstock to 4" square. I taped the larger wreath template into my MISTI stamp positioning tool to use as a guide. I stamped the first flower in Simon Says Stamp Sunshine ink, turning the cardstock in the template until I had stamped 8 times. I followed with the pink flowers, using Lawn Fawn's Wild Rose ink. I stamped the dark green leaves around the outer perimeter with Memento Cottage Ivy ink, and the 2-leaf image with Memento Pear Tart. Finally, to fill out the wreath a bit more on the inside, I stamped a little accent image in Hero Arts Orchid ink.

I wanted to make an A2-size card, and wanted my panel to fill the card front with only a 1/8" mat on all 4 sides. So I cut my wreath panel in half, & added it to a dark green cardstock mat that I'd adhered to my card base. I left a gap in between the 2 wreath panels.

I stamped one of the rings from the "Wreath Builder" set in Cottage Ivy ink, and stamped the greeting in the center in Wild Rose. I die cut that with a 2" circle die from We R Memory Keepers, and used a Waffle Flower "Additional Circles" die to cut the mat from lavender cardstock. I matted a strip of white cardstock with lavender, and adhered it to cover the gap between my stamped panels. Finally, I adhered the matted greeting circle in the center of my card.

I'm also entering this card in 613 Avenue Create's March Challenge: "Anything Goes" (not playing the twist).