This Peaceful Poppies Watercolor-Look Birthday Card is just so bright and happy, I think it would brighten anyone’s day even if it was already that person’s birthday! This card is an example of how the beautiful designer paper does all the work of making a card!
The Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper was designed from actual watercolored images. One side of the paper has the floral images and the other side has watercolor washes in stripes, polka dots, and solids. Don’t think your designer paper is printed badly, the watercolor washes have different shadings in them like a watercolor painting would have than just a regular solid color.
Sometimes when you page through a package of designer paper, no matter what you were planning to use, one design jumps out at you. This time it was this particular poppy design! Then I also chose this little piece of green stripe design from another page with a gorgeous floral design on the other side that I hated to cut into!
The card base is Old Olive with the fold at the top. Just cut your cardstock in half lengthwise and score in half at 5 1/2″. The green stripe piece is adhered to the poppy paper and then the Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon (one of my favorites!) is wrapped around the two layers of designer paper and adhered on the back. Next, the designer paper layer is adhered to the card base. I also tied on a knot on with the ribbon on each side of the greeting.
For the greeting, I stamped “Happy Birthday” from the Peaceful Moments Stamp Set and die cut with a die from the Stitched So Sweetly Dies.
For a final embellishment, I added a few Peaceful Poppies Sequins to the card front.
Here is another card I made with just a strip of this same pattern in the Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper! Be sure to check out the whole Peaceful Poppies Suite in the Occasions Mini Catalog! Earn FREE products, too, during Sale-A-Bration with every $50 purchase!
Very pretty, Karen!