Kaisercraft Flower Shoppe Birthday Card

 

Hi everyone,

Well, January has started super-hot.  Yesterday it was 46 deg C here - 115 deg F - and quite a few plants looked bleached when we looked at them today.  We had 46 deg C the other week as well.   I feel sorry for those in the NW of Victoria where it was a record 48.9 deg C - 120 deg F.  I also feel sorry for the birds and other wildlife and wonder how they cope?  Sigh.....I can't WAIT for some cooler days - AND nights!

So, I have been very busy in my Craft Room over January keeping out of the heat and making some Fan Club Design Team Cards for Splitcoaststampers - and other cards for family members.  

One of my all-time favourite releases by Kaisercraft is Flower Shoppe which was released around January 2021.  I just adore the soft colours plus I love anything with flowers on it.  So I whipped up this Birthday Card which I will be giving to my niece:

Lately, I have been making smaller square cards - around 4 to 4-1/4" - spurred on by Ardyth Percy-Robb's small square cards.  If you don't know who Ardyth is, do a search on You-Tube for her Channel - and I have no doubt that you will be incredibly inspired by Ardyth's cards.  She is so clever and creative.

I am entering my card in the following Challenges - click on the underlined link to take you to the Challenge: 

• Splitcoaststampers - Free for All Friday F4A831 of Feeling a Little Square where you can either make a square card or a card with square elements

• Crafty Catz - #705 - Anything Goes

The main image is from the matching Flower Shoppe Collectables which I layered onto some matching designer paper, then onto Stampin' Up Crumb Cake Cardstock.  Both of these were diecut using my Big Shot and Nesting Arches Dies.

The hanging baskets just had grey and white flowers and I wanted them to have a bit more life - so coloured some of the flowers with a blue and a peachy coloured Pastel Ohuhu Alcohol Marker.  I bought a set of these Alcohol Markers in a Black Friday sale last year, and gosh, I do love them and the quality is amazing!

I fussy-cut the butterfly using my Uniquely Creative Fussy Cutting Scissors from one of the designer papers and glued down just the centre so I could bend the wings up.  I guess, in hindsight, the butterfly looks quite large compared to the rest of the scene - but I didn't think about it until after I had adhered it.

The sentiment is also from the Collectables.  I diecut some hearts from one of the designer papers using an Impression Obsession Heart of Hearts Die.  I added Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush to all the flowers, the butterfly and the hearts on the sentiment.  It's amazing how when you just add a bit of sparkle to your card, it really "lifts" the card.

The bottom panel was punched using an EK Success Scalloped Scallops Border Punch.  I added some White Twine from Stampin' Up then popped the panel up on scraps of white cardstock.

Finished size is:  4-1/8" x 4-1/8" or 104mm x 104mm.

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps and Ink:  None

Designer Paper:  Kaisercraft Flower Shoppe 6-1/2" x 6-1/2" Paper Pad + matching Collectables

Accessories:  Big Shot, White Twine - Stampin' Up Baker's Twine Essentials Pack #155475, Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush, Ohuhu Pastel Alcohol Markers, Tombow Mono Multi Glue, Art Glitter Glue, Uniquely Creative Fussy Cutting Scissors, 1mm dimensionals, Cardstock - Scraps of White + Stampin' Up Crumb Cake

Punches:  EK Success Scalloped Scallops Border

Dies:  Nesting Arches, Impression Obsession Heart of Hearts DIE052-I (retired)