Velvet Meadow, Scalloped Blooms, Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a simple birthday card to share with you. Please read on to see how it was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the bottom and the fold is on the top.

I cut a 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" piece of Designer Series Paper form the "Velvet Meadow" 12" x 12" package and glued it to the front of the card base. I used glue because the other side has some velvet images on it and I needed the piece to stick well. I wasn't sure if tape would hold down on the velvet so I decided not to take any chances and to just glue it. I set it under my stamping mat so it could lay very flat while the glue set up.

In the meantime I cut another piece of the DSP but this time I used the velvety side. These flowers are just SO pretty in person. They have a velvety center and there's little velvet flowers around the background. My piece was cut at 2" x 4-3/4" and I layered it with a 2-1/4" x 5" piece of Peaceful Pine card stock. 

I taped this to the front of the card about 1/4" from the fold and both sides. 

The words are from the "Scalloped Blooms" bundle and were stamped using the Basic Black hybrid ink on Basic white card stock. I cut them out using a die from the "Sweet Words & Labels" die set. 

I used the next size up die for the Peaceful Pine layer. I taped the two pieces together. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place on the front of the card about 1/2" up from the bottom and equal spacing on each side. I just eyed it. I figure if it looks equal to my eyes, it's close enough. I did measure the right side and it's about 1-1/8" from the right edge of the card base.

I had some retired "Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots" in a color that was close enough to the color in the flowers so I used them. I need to use up these embellishments and it's happening but it's happening slowly. But I should look at it as "it's happening", right?  Anyway, after adding the embellishments, the card was done.

This was such a super quick and easy card to make. This velvet DSP is SO pretty and I can't wait to play with it some more.

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