A Hearty Happy Birthday

Here is my first card!

I made this a while back due to a spark of inspiration from pinterest.

It is a fairly simple card, a good way to use up some of those scraps of paper.  This is how I made it:

1. Using a heart shaped die (or trace a heart and cut it out with scissors) cut out a large heart from the top portion of a piece of white card.
2. Using black ink, stamp a happy birthday greeting below the heart.  Also with the black ink, stamp a pretty border pattern across the bottom of the card.
3. Glue on two pink heart shaped gems either side of the happy birthday greeting.
4. Using a pink ink pad, gently wipe it along the inside of the heart to define the edge.
5. To make the flower: Using a flower shaped punch, punch out 4 - 6 flowers from a sheet of pink paper.  Make a small cut in the center of each flower with a craft knife and gently push it onto a brad, once all the flowers are on the brad, open up the prongs to secure them in place.  Glue onto card at the bottom of the heart.
6. Grab a piece of computer paper that is smaller in size than the white card and trace an outline of  the same heart on to it.  Using strips of various pink patterned papers cut to 1cm wide, glue them across the traced heart at a diagonal.  Trim off any excess.
7. Using a piece of pink card, create the card base.  Adhere the computer paper with the strips of pink onto the base, making sure to align it so only the strips of pink paper will show through the heart.  Using dimensional foam, adhere the white piece over top.
8. Step away from the table, dust yourself off and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done!

So there you have it! Not at all hard.  It is one of those cards that can be easily changed to suit the recipient, say blue stripes under a star shape, or yellow under a circle.  The possibilities are unlimited!

Till next time

Rorystar.