Birthday Gifts

I recently ordered the Make a Wish Stamp sets with the matching dies from PTI and I have to tell you that I have been having a ball making birthday cards. Today I'm going to share two of the cards I made using my new goodies.

I decided to use soft pastel colors for the first card.  I have to admit, I CASED this card from Betsy Veldman.  She made something similar to this and I just fell in love. Vintage cream cardstock and swiss dots embossing folder was used for the base and I added a strip of bitty dots paper in lemon tart and cut the scallop using the small scallop die from PTI.  The sentiment was stamped in smokey shadow.

I used the Pretty Pastels and Bitty Dots paper in lemon tart to die cut all of these lovely packages. On some of the packages I added a little strip of  vintage cream cardstock using decorative edged scissors.  I found in my stash some pastel pearls (I think I got them at Michael's) and I know that this would add a nice accent.  Chamomile die ink was used to distress the edges a bit.

For the second card I went with more bold bright colors.  The patterned paper is from Scenic Route that I've had in my stash for a while.  It's had to see in the photo but I embossed lines done the middle of each color using my Scor Pal.

 The sentiment is from Birthday Basics stamped on a banner accented with Rhinestones.  I rounded all the corners using my corner chomper.

To create the packages I used new leaf, orange zest, hawaiian shores, hibiscus burst, spring moss and pure poppy cardstock.  I added some glitter to the bows for a little added punch.  I attached everything using foam pop dots.

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