Wildflower Birthday, Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. I'm late in making my card tonight and I debate whether or not I should make one or just pass. I rarely miss a day of posting a card. Then I remembered a couple of piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) that I found on my worktable while I was cleaning up some stacks of stuff. I found the cake and the Pretty in Pink pieces all cut just waiting to be made into a card. I know the cake and background paper is from a retired pack but ....  I still had the pack and these pieces really needed to be used, plus I am in crunch time. So here's the card I whipped up today.

The DSP is from the (retired) "Wildflower Birthday" package. I had already cut the pieces using the "Everyday Arches" die set. It looks like I used the 2nd and 3rd die in the set.  Now from here I was on my own.

I taped the two arched pieces together and added Dimensionals to the back.

Using a folded half-sheet of Basic White card for the base, I taped a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of DSP from the same package. It's such a pretty gingham piece. 

Then the arched pieces were added. 

The balloon is from the same package. It had two sheets of pre-cut images. So I thought the balloon was the best fit for this card. Dimensionals were added to the part of the ballon that touches the top layer.

I didn't add any sentiment because the card pretty much speaks for itself. And that was it. I thought about adding some bling to where the dots are on the "frosting" swooped design but I decided to leave it, it gets more expensive to mail cards with hard/firm embellishments.  Dimensionals squish down in the postal machines (as long as there aren't too many layers).  

This was a very super quick card to make and I did leave the package of DSP out so I can make a few more like this for my stash.  I'd really like to use up that package.  I'm on a quest to use up packages, there's SO many sitting around here. I just hate to give them up.  Not that I'm going to post a lot of retired items here but today I was in a time crunch and I just had to.  Plus this layout can be used for other sheets of current DSP. I may take the time tomorrow and work it out with some and see what I get.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's birthday card,
Wanda