Birthday Delivery

Hello, Crafters.

Yesterday
I used some of the die cuts I made from the the Birthday Memories
Designer Series Paper (DSP) to create today’s card! 

The only idea I had was
that I wanted the little girl, who’s protectively guarding her cake from the
dog begging on the right-hand side, and the more snooty looking dog on the
left-hand side! LOL!

These characters are just so unbelievably cute!

I
started my card with a base of Old Olive Cardstock (CS), and a layer of
Whisper White CS. 

My first thought was to create a garden scene and put
the images at the front. I decided I didn’t want the card front be
so busy that the focal point was lost. 

I chose to use the beautiful
Colour Theory Designer Series Paper (DSP) Stack. I absolutely love the
crackle designs in this stack!

I
debated whether to use the Dapper Blue design to represent the sky, or Olive Green to
co-ordinate with the bottom section which represents grass. Co-ordination won the
day!

I adhered a wide strip of the white background crackle paper the
the top part of the Whisper White CS, and a narrower strip of the solid
green background to the bottom part.

I
wrapped a piece of the Old Olive 3/8″ Mini Chevron Ribbon around the
join of the two designs and adhered it at the back of the Whisper White
CS.

I was very pleasantly surprised at how amazingly soft this ribbon is! When I first looked at it on the roll, I thought it looked quite thick and quite coarse – it’s neither! 

The
little girl and the standing dog images were die cuts from the DSP, but
I wanted to put them on Dimensionals over the ribbon. 

I was concerned
they would be too flexible to do this, so I adhered each of them to the
stamped die cuts I shared with you on Saturday. 

This idea worked
brilliantly, but I had a problem with the begging dog! I had fussy cut
this image from the DSP as there isn’t a die for it. 

To get round this, I
cut roughly around another image of the begging dog on the DSP and
adhered it to a piece of Whisper White CS. Then I fussy cut the dog and
backing in one go!

My
idea worked and I was able to adhere all three images in place using
Dimensionals! 

I added the three balloons using Dimensionals, but I
didn’t add any backing to them. I felt that, because I had overlapped them,
and I’d also used three Dimesionals, there was sufficient support already. 

I made
three tiny bows using Linen Thread, and adhered one to each balloon
using Tombow. Then I added a piece of string to each balloon, and
adhered the ends behind the ribbon. 

Using Old Olive Ink, I stamped the Birthday GREETINGS sentiment from the Birthday Delivery Stamp Set towards the top
right-hand corner. 

To
decorate the inside of the card, I adhered a piece of Whisper White CS
and adhered two fussy cut dogs, each playing with a balloon!

That’s about it for today. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.