What with all the craziness that is Christmas and the craft fairs that I have been preparing for, I realised this morning that I hadn’t yet made any birthday cards for two very important people in my life, my mother and my daughter. They both have Christmas birthday’s, in fact they are on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day respectively. Poor you I can hear you say, but we used to have a “full house” as my father’s was Boxing Day (Dec 26th for those of you not sure when this is).
Anyway, I decided this morning that I should get on with making some birthday cards and I thought I’d use the new Everything Eleanor stamp set that was introduced in the 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalogue. The set consists of eight stamps, and it is a fabulous set.
The base card in this second card is Soft Suede and the Calypso Coral card stock has a background image stamped in the same colour on it. I used the new Lace Ribbon Border punch to punch a ribbon of Calypso Coral and then cut it in half length-ways before sticking it to the piece of Crumb Cake card stock that I had embossed using the Square Lattice Embossing folder. The birthday message is the same stamp that I used for the square card but this time I punched it out using the Scallop Oval punch and then matted it onto a piece of Soft Suede card that had been punched out using the Extra Large Oval punch. The card was finished off with some Pearls and also a piece of Crumb Cake 1/2″ Seam Binding Ribbon.
These cards are all really gorgeous. I am using this set for my next card class, so may well CAS those colour combos. Gorgeous x