This Beautiful Friendship Simple Stamping Birthday Card is for someone who might love flowers and thinks that “Birthdays Are the Best Days”! And that would be me! What is it about hearing our birthday that just sounds extra special to each of us? There’s really no other day in the year quite like “our birthday”. When I had a baby, I realized a child’s birthday is just as special a day to the parents as it is to the child. But until then I never realized that!
Stampin’ Up! has been having challenges for us Demonstrators called #simplestamping. I think maybe the purpose is that we all get carried away with our stamping and seeing and trying so many projects that we forget about doing “simple stamping”. Maybe potential stampers see our sometimes elaborate projects and think they couldn’t possibly make something like that. Even though WE know the secret is that anyone CAN make whatever we make because stamping is so easy. You just have to have some supplies and learn about different techniques and how to use our supplies.
The #simplestamping challenge for August had a theme of making a birthday card using stamps, ink, and paper. Since it is my birthday, I thought I should make a card for this challenge. This card is the best kind of simple! It really is just stamps, ink and paper! Really back to basics!
The card base is the Whisper White THICK Cardstock so it can stand on its own. No layers, just the card base and stamping. I used the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set which has several pretty flower stamps. I stamped the one flower in Melon Mambo ink with Granny Apple Green leaves. The greeting is in the same stamp set and is stamped in Memento Ink. That’s all there is to it!
If you were making this card with more steps than “simple stamping” you might stamp on a Whisper White card front and layer on a Melon Mambo layer. You might use some Wink of Stella for some glimmer on the flowers. or add a ribbon down the side of the card front. But even with only using stamps, ink, and paper I have a perfectly fine birthday card to send to someone.
Even if you are an experienced stamper, just remember sometimes all you really need to do is some #simplestamping!