Somewhere recently I saw a card made with the colors blue and yellow or maybe it was blue and orange. I don’t remember, but it popped up in my head when I went to make this Encircled in Friendship Birthday Card. After looking through my designer papers, I chose this Misty Moonlight blue print in the Pattern Party Host Designer Series Paper. I also knew I wanted to use the Encircled in Friendship Bundle with its beautiful dies!
I chose Bumblebee Cardstock, one of last year’s In Colors, for the card base. I could have used another yellow but I’ve been on a Bumblebee kick recently. I used a couple of the dies in the Encircled in Beauty Dies to cut out a large Bumblebee outer die, which also produced the circle I used under the stamped image. I also die cut the white layer and die cut a Basic White circle with the Layering Circles Dies. For my design inspiration (and help!) I was copying my own card from a little while ago which you can see here.
On the white circle, I stamped the flowers in the Encircled in Friendship Stamp Set with Memento Black Ink. It would have been better to stamp first, then die cut, but I got lucky and got the stamp placed just fine! The flowers just barely fit. Then I colored them with Stampin’ Blends. Since we don’t have a Bumblebee color, I used Daffodil Delight for the flowers and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. Even though it is not an exact color match, it is close enough and maybe the Daffodil Delight even provides a little brighter color to the card.
I intended to wrap the Bumblebee Gingham Ribbon around the Misty Moonlight piece of designer paper, but I forgot and glued down the paper to the Bumblebee card base first! It happens! For the greeting, I chose one I had already stamped and die-cut with the Many Messages Bundle. To add some ribbon for embellishment, I just cut a strip and adhered it underneath the greeting, and snipped the ends. Very quick and easy!
The die cut sort of doily-like layers would be easier to adhere to the card if you remembered to use Adhesive Sheets first but I seldom remember! However, I can usually make teeny tiny dots work (and I mean teeny tiny!) of Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the biggest spaces I can find and even the smaller ones on the back of the die-cuts. Just be very careful and squirt out some glue on a piece of scrap paper to avoid an explosion of a blob on your tiny die-cut area!
Don’t forget! Tomorrow, June 24th is FREE SHIPPING at Stampin’ Up! so if you would like this Encircled in Friendship Bundle to make a card like this one, you can save the money you would normally spend on shipping! You must have a $50 order to be eligible for free shipping, and don’t start putting in your order until tomorrow so the computer will take it. Double-check to make sure you don’t get charged for shipping.
