craftykarendesigns: Hydrangea Hill Birthday Card

Hi Everyone,

Today I have made a pretty, square birthday card using the Hydrangea Hill designer series papers for a very good friend, I hope that she will like it. Let me show you how I made it.

Materials

1 piece of seaside spray card stock 5 3/4" x 11 1/2" and a 1/2" scrap for the sentiment

1 piece of dsp 5 1/2" square, scraps for the flowers and other square die cut

1 piece of basic white card stock 5 1/2" square and 1 piece 2 5/8" square

Scraps of silver foil for the leaves

Layering square dies

Forever Flourishing dies

Stampin Cut and Emboss machine

Small Bloom punch

Art Gallery stamp set

Misty Moonlight ink

Lovely Labels Pick a Punch

Pastel Pearls

Trimmer

Simply scored

Bone folder

Multipurpose adhesive

Dimensionals

Instructions

On the long side, score the seaside spray card at 5 3/4" and fold and burnish to make the card base.

Add the large dsp layer to the card front.

Die cut a 2 5/8" (approx) square from basic white and a 1 5/8" (approx) from the dsp and a large leaf flourish from silver foil - I'm going to cut this up to make smaller sprigs.

Add the larger square to the centre of the card front using dimensionals. Then overlap the dsp square at the bottom right of the large square, add a dab of glue to the piece lying on top of the other square and add dimensionals to the rest to keep it on a level.

Punch out four flowers from dsp with the small bloom punch and shape them in the palm of your hand to give them some dimension.

Punch a 1/2" label using the Pick a Punch and stamp the sentiment towards the shaped end. Add this to the white square about 1/8" from the bottom of it (see picture).

Add the four flowers over the end of the label to hide it and then cut up the large leaf sprig and tuck the pieces in around the flowers using some glue.

Add a pearl to the centre of each flower and to the top left of the white square.

Add the remaining white square to the inside of the card, add a sentiment and decorate with a thin strip of dsp if you like.

I hope that you like my card and will give it a try.

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