Hello, friends! It’s Dawn here with a pair of birthday cards to share with you. It’s recently come to my attention that I need to be beefing up my card stash. The drawer is looking a little less full than I’d like and really, I’m needing to add cards for quite a few different occasions. Since birthday cards are some of what I use the most, I thought I’d get a jump on restocking with a pair of vintage-inspired birthday greetings. Let me tell you all about them!
To start things off, I decided to use a couple of the new Capsule Valentine Gallery Prints. I love that these beautiful pre-printed images are quick and easy to cut out and layer up.
PRO TIP: Just because they’re in a set called “Capsule Valentine Gallery Prints” doesn’t mean they can only be used to make Valentines! There are many images in this set that can be used for all sorts of different occasions!
On this card, rather than stamp the border detail, I used the negative die cut from the filigree border on the first card. I just love those dies…..total two-uses-out-of-one die!
That gold glitter looks so elegant and antique up against the greens! ahhh!
PRO TIP: For the sentiments, I stamped a single sentiment from the Tear Strip Tags: Birthday set. I used a couple of those small, skinny sticky notes to mask off the sentiments from that stamp on either side of the one I wanted to use when I inked it up. Made it super easy to pull them off and stamp, then cover them up to ink it up again for the next card and then pull them off to stamp again.
I stamped the sentiments on one of the Shortbread Shapes: Rectangle Labels dies.
For one last vintage touch, I ran a piece of rustic cream card stock though the die cutting machine with the Shortbread Shapes: Scalloped Hearts 3D Embossing Folder. I LOVE that you just see a bit of the design peeking out around the focal point. It reminds me of those old white chenille bedspreads…..do you know the ones I mean? They had all that pretty, bumpy texture….just like this card stock panel. It just adds another layer of interest. It almost has a sort of quilted feel.
I so enjoyed creating these antique-inspired cards and I hope they gave you some inspiration today, as well! I need to get busy filling my card stash drawer up some more, but these are a good little jumping off point! How about you? What’s the state of your card stash? If you need to do a little beefing up as well, why not pull out some of those Valentine things and use them on some non-Valentine cards? And maybe make them “vintage” while you’re at it!
If you do, we’d love to see! Tag me @dawnsing and @the_greetery!
Have a great day!
Dawn McVey
