Happy Birthday

Hello and welcome back to the block. Shari here with a one-layer card for the SSS Kids Vacation Challenge.

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About a week ago my mother and i watched a video about using “ugly” patterned paper or paper you don’t know how to use. One of the ideas was to die cut the more overwhelming paper using a small shape die and put them on a card. That was the inspiration for this card. I began by die cutting a piece of floral patterned paper with a hexagon die. The die actually cuts out a hole in the hexagon so I tried my best not to lose the little circle and surprisingly I didn’t so that’s nice. My sentiment is a die from Poppy Stamps and I die cut it from a piece of paper I scribbled with a black marker.

I began to arrange my hexagons on the paper, trying to figure out my placement. I eventually settled on a design and began adhering the hexagons to a white card panel. I stuck the tiny dots in the spaces as well then glued my sentiment. I added some sparkle with a Lawn Fawn glitter pen on some of the flowers and with a stardust pen i went over the sentiment and some extra places on the flowers. If I had to do this card over I’d go around the edges of the hexagons to help them stand out more but overall I love this card (it actually may be my favourite card I’ve ever made).

This will be entered into:

Simon Says Stamp Kids Vacation Challenge – Anything Goes with Sparkle and/or Shine

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