I wanted to make a quick card and the design I used for this card, Easy Tropical Oasis Birthday Card, is almost always a very quick and easy one to use! This Tropical Oasis Designer Series Paper has such gorgeous colors and floral patterns in it. I just flipped this floral pattern over, and the pineapples were on the opposite side! I saw some tiny pineapples at the grocery store one day and thought of this whole Tropical Oasis Suite!

One of the colors that go with this paper is Real Red! My favorite color, so I could not pass it up! So Real Red it was for the card base. Without measuring, I cut out a longer rectangle than I needed because I wanted to have a little overlap of the two papers so that I could glue them together. In the end, the two pieces adhered together measured like any card layer, 5 1/4″ x 4″.

I always like to cover the seam of where two papers meet, so I used the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon. I just took a longer strip than the card and adhered it around on the back of the card layer. After I made the greeting, I use the ribbon to tie a bow on each end of the layered background for the greeting.

The greeting is stamped from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set. You could choose lots of other greetings or sentiments with this card design and paper. I layered it on Real Red paper punched with the. Everyday Label Punch. Then I trimmed down another punched label of Daffodil Delight and cut it in half so I could make it smaller to fit under the greeting. I didn’t do a perfect job but I was trying!

The greeting itself is tricky to explain. I tried something for the first time. I used a Stitched Rectangle Die to cut it out. As you can see, the rectangle dies are longer than I wanted my greeting to be. I cut only part of the rectangle by not putting my cutting plate over the part of the die I did not want to be cut. Then I switched the die around, still lining it up with the die-cut outline on the sides (it just sticks back on the same lines) and just put the cutting pad on the end that now needed to be cut to make the greeting shorter and only rolled over that end. That all produced the smaller rectangle greeting! I didn’t take pictures because I wasn’t even sure I was doing it right! But I did!

This card design is always great to keep in mind when you want an easy card that still looks great. No fancy folds or directions to follow. Just add some designer paper to all or part of a card base, in either direction, one side of paper or two, add a ribbon or embellishment or not, then add a greeting for whatever occasion. Here’s another card I made that is similar, using a whole layer of designer paper with a strip of a different pattern going across under the greeting. When you have designer paper as bright and pretty as this, almost any card design you use like this Tropical Oasis Birthday Card will turn out beautiful.