Birthday Card using Arch die by SUE CREASE

Hello,

Today I'm here on  The Mad Scrapper Blog with a birthday card using supplies from the shop as well as some items from my stash of old collections that just couldn't be thrown out.

I started with a 5x7 top fold cardbase which I then trimmed down to 5x6.5. Then as always I gathered together my supplies (a full list can be found at the bottom of this page). I trimmed the plum down to leave a border of white showing then I ran it through my Gemini using a coverplate because I knew I wanted some texture showing through my arch.

Then using the coconut smooth and the new Uniquely Creative Stitched Arches dies I cut the outer edge and the arch away. I used the same arch and one the size down to create the inner arch from the other side of the plum paper. I found a couple of little star stamps and randomly stamped down all over the white allowing some to fall off the edges. Then using the foam strips I mounted it on to the card front. Because the outer die gives a 4.25 x 5.75 frame it allowed for some of the background paper to show.

The dark arch is recessed in to the card.

As you can see from the next couple of photographs I added a selection of flowers from 49 and Market and Green Tara along with 3 leaves I cut from silver foil paper. I removed the brown stamens from the lighter flowers and added some glitter ones. I always use hot glue to attach my flowers but everything else with doublesided tape or liquid glue.

To finish off I added some clear rhinestones and a couple of birthday sentiments which I stacked up for dimension 

Thanks for stopping by I hope I have inspired you to use your scrapbooking papers on other craft projects too.

Do drop in to see Janine to check out all the great die sets that are coming in to stock; if like me you live too far away grab a coffee and visit The Mad Scrapper 

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