As the title implies, I made this card using the ‘Pretty Posy’ paper pad from Trimcraft’s First Edition range.
(apologies for the price label still on there, but it damages the cover when you try and remove it!).
After choosing which papers I wanted to use, I started on sorting what elements I needed to make the card. First I fussy cut some florals and hearts from two of the papers (which you can see the pile of in the top left of the photo below).
I also tried out a new toy, this rather rudimentary circle cutter I got from The Works for a whopping £2. It isn’t great, but it’ll do for now.
You can see here the four main parts of the card: the card blank (a 6×6 one). One 6×6 paper (one of the pearlescent designs), with the centre gutted out to make a frame. Then two papers cut to about 5.5×5.5″ (the green one slightly larger) with circles cut from the middle.
…oh, and the lid that covers the circle cutter’s blade has crept it’s way into the photo too, whoops!
Then, assembly! The ‘birthday wishes’ is a cardstock sticker from a Pebbles sticker book – which I now wish I had purchased 2384023 of because I use it all the time for cards and now it’s discontinued, waaaaaah!
It’s also raised up on some foam tape. It was a bit fiddly and took a while to get the fussy cut elements in their right places, and required the combined efforts of foam tape, glue dots, pritt stick, and double sided tape to get the job done.
But that’s not the end! I always like to add something to the back and centre of my cards, even if it’s something small, just so you don’t have a beautiful front of a card and then stark white space elsewhere.
So inside I just added some washi tape:
For the back I did a little more, first I cut another paper to 6×6, and punched the corners with a fancy corner punch:
Then embossed a ‘handmade with love’ stamp on top of some cut off paper I’d used for the front of the card, stuck a doily behind that, and there we go!
I always find adding something to the back and centre of your card (other than your message, of course), makes a handmade card seem more ‘finished’.
Thanks so much for reading, and look out for some more card posts soon 🙂
Oh I forgot – I added some flat back pearls too!
Grace @ms.paperlover ❤
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