This Ornate Garden Elegant Gold Foil Birthday Card is actually elegant because of the gold foil accents on the specialty designer paper and also the gold foil die underneath the greeting. It’s not elegant because it is a fancy card to make as far as design. There are no real bells and whistles on this card, just pretty designer paper, the gold accent layer and some ribbon behind the birthday greeting.
The Ornate Garden Specialty Designer Series Paper is so pretty it will be hard to select which paper you want to use! I actually started out thinking I wanted to use one of the small floral prints, like on the backside of this paper. But I can do that another time!
I wanted to use one of the Ornate Layers Dies so after I chose a greeting for this card I selected this one you see on the card. I didn’t want it to be too large and layered on this card and take away from the designer paper. The card base is Old Olive, one of the coordinating colors of the papers. It would also be pretty to put a layer of Gold Foil underneath the designer paper to enhance the gold accents, but I didn’t think of that early enough!
The “Happy Birthday” greeting is from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set, one of those really good sentiment stamp sets to have on hand. This is one of the stamp sets that is a part of the Peaceful Poppies Suite in the Occasions Mini Catalog. In fact, you can buy it as a Bundle with a set of dies.
For a minute I didn’t quite know what I wanted to do with the greeting which I die cut with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I thought maybe I should stamp it again and die cut with another shape. But then, the lightbulb came on, and I thought to just place some of the Old Olive Ornate Garden Ribbon in the Combo Pack back and forth in loops on the back and pop it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. That took up some of the empty space, made the greeting stand out, and made the whole card look elegant!
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