CARDS Gallery Challenge–Happy Birthday!

Hi Kids!

Can you believe I’ve posted so many days in a row?!!  This is kinda fun . . . I gotta remember to do this more often.  LOL  So, today I wanted to share with you the card that I made for the current CARDS Gallery Challenge, which is to create a birthday card.  Easy, right?!

I’ve actually had this idea in my head ever since some new PTI stuff arrived at my doorstep a few weeks ago.  I love their dies – so fun and super versatile.  So many of them mix and match together to create some really great embellishments.  I used the Take Three die to create the openings on the card base for the gifts.  Then I embossed the woodgrain onto the card base using an impression plate.  Then I used the ribbon/bow from the Make A Wish Collection dies.  Assembling it all was super easy!  I just created a panel for the inside of the card, and adhered three strips of polka dot paper so that each color peeked through each opening – I adhered the polka dot panel to the inside of the card using pop dots to give the gifts some dimension.  The ribbons/bows are attached to the card front with a glue pen.  The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark and then heat embossed with navy embossing powder.  Easy peasy!!

PRODUCTS USED:
STAMPS:  PAPERTREY INK (Make A Wish)
INK:  TSUKINEKO (VersaMark)
PAPER:  NEENAH CLASSIC CREST (Solar White Ultra Smooth CS), PAPERTREY INK (Simply Chartreuse, Enchanted Evening and Hawaiian Shores CS), ECHO PARK (Dots & Stripes Metropolitan Collection)
ACCESSORIES:  PAPERTREY INK (Take Three Die, Make A Wish Collection Die, and Woodgrain Impression Plate), SAKURA (Quickie Glue Pen), ZING/AMERICAN CRAFTS (Denim Embossing Powder), STAMPIN’ UP! (Stampin’ Dimensionals)

Okay, that’s it for today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!