Birthday Beauty

Last night I spent a few hours in my craft room doing some general organizing and cleaning up. With my tables and counters finally cleared off, I was inspired to stamp! Imagine that!  ;)

I copied the general card layout I'd seen from another demonstrator with a few minor changes. Again I used my new Four Frames stamp set and Paisley Petals Designer Series paper. I am in LOVE with this paper! The colors are just so rich and gorgeous!

The card is 5 x 5. I don't make this size very often and I'm not sure why because I love square cards.

I started with an Early Espresso card base and matted my designer paper with Pacific Point cardstock.  I allowed the beautiful paper to be the main focus for this card.

I used some of my Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon, tied a bow and adhered it to one of our Pear Pizzazz Springtime Vintage buttons with a glue dot.  These gorgeous buttons are in our Occasions Mini catalogue and contain a total of 48 buttons - 4 each in three different colors, but are only available until the end of April!
 

 

 The rose frame is one of the stamps in our Four Frames set and the "mother" stamp is from a retired set that we no longer carry but I've still got in my stash.  (If you're into digital paper crafting, it is still available as a digital download)  It's been punched out using our Decorative Label Punch and popped up with our Stampin' Dimenstionals.

Of course, I can't get enough of our beautiful pearls, so I added two large ones at the top, a row of the smallest size along my scallop border and three of the medium size on the inside of my card.  Anytime I use a dark colored card base, I always try to dress up the inside a little.

I had a lot of fun with this card!  It's my moms birthday this week, so this particular card was created with her in mind.  She and I have very similar taste, so I'm sure she'll love it as much as I do.

If you have any questions regarding this project, definitely let me know!

Happy Stamping!