Almost a Square Card

June 25, 2010

Today's color scheme:  Old Olive, Taken with Teal (a last chance color!), So Saffron, and Sweet Pea DSP Stack

The completed card's dimensions are 5 1/4 x 5 1/2.  Almost a square card!  It's a gate-fold card made using 5 1/4 x 11" card stock scored at 3 1/2" and at 9".  Spellbinder dies were used to create a suitable center piece to hold the card front closed.  A 1" strip of Sweet Pea DSP runs the width of the card, including paper piercing, to help emphasize the "Happy Birthday" sentiment stamped in Taken with Teal ink (soon to be bye-bye!) on So Saffron paper.  The Modern Label punch was used to punch out the stamped sentiment.

Here's the inside of the card.  I continued with the theme of running a 1" strip of Sweet Pea DSP along the width of the card.  A birthday sentiment (from retired SU! stamp set Friend to Friend) was stamped with black ink on more Sweet Pea DSP.  The birthday cake image (SU!'s retired Along the Same Lines) was stamped with black ink and the candle flames were accented with gold rhinestones. 

The birthday card is for Mom who will be celebrating her 86th birthday on July 4th.  She recently had some new trees planted in the yard and that motivated me to use a HB-tree theme card.  It's funny how the entire nation likes to whoop it up on Mom's birthday!

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