Olivia’s Birthday Card

My friend’s daughter Olivia turned 3 last week and this is the card I made for her. I didn’t really have a plan for this card other than using her favorite color, yellow. As it turned out I used a lot of retired Stampin’ Up! product on the card.

Over the holidays I made cute little pointsettias using the 5 petal punch, so I decided to make some flowers for the card the same way. I stamped So Saffron and Perfect Plum card stock with the now retired Posy background stamp. The Pretty Petals or Boho Blooms backgrounds on Pp128-129 of the current catalog would also be great for this! Then I punched out 3 flowers of each color, and glued them together using Tombow Multi.

I then dug into my stash of retired On Board accents for the centers of the flowers and the green flower in the middle. On Board Batch of Blooms on p. 183 would has similar pieces. I then used a Sponge Dauber and Certainly Celery Classic Ink to color the chipboard. Then I glued the circles to the flowers, and stamped the #3 onto the green flower using Whisper White Craft Ink.

Turning to the card base, I used a retired hostess set, So Many Sayings to stamp the sentiment and the line of flowers on the bottom. Stampin’ Up! has several great birthday sentiments in the Greetings section of the catalog, starting on page 131. So Many Sayings is very similar to Many Happy Returns on p 137.

I started laying out the flowers on the card and decided that the top corners needed something, so I grabbed a flower from the Eastern Blooms set (p. 94) and stamped it with Rose Red ink. I also tried something  under the sentiment that TOTALLY didn’t work out, so I traced a chipboard circle and colored it in with a silver pen.  Then I glued everything together. Phew!!

Recipe

• Stamps: So Many Sayings (retired), Posy (retired), Eastern Blooms, Simple Serif Mini Alphabet
• Paper: So Saffron, Perfect Plum, Rose Red
• Ink: So Saffron, Elegant Eggplant, Rose Red, Basic Black, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
• Accessories: 5 Petal Punch, retired On Board Chipboard, Sponge Dauber, Tombow, Silver Pen (non-SU)