Dressed Up Birthday Kit

Despite having all the components to create the card as designed in Stampin' Up!'s Dressed Up Birthday Kit, I decided to invest in the kit anyway -- figuring it would greatly increase the chances that I would actually MAKE the card.  My plan worked!  The very day my SU! order arrived, I tore into this kit and started playing.  Interestingly, not one of these cards is exactly how the kit designer had in mind.  They're all very similar, but each one has a little tweak to make it slightly different.

For example, on this first card, the fancy edge was my idea.  To be honest, I was just covering a flub, lol.  After I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment, I realized that it was way too far over to the left, so the punched border was the perfect solution to recenter it.

I rounded the corners on this next one (and the rest of them, since I liked the look so much better), added a clear faceted button instead of the little vanilla rose, and switched to a different sentiment.

This next one was a close to original design as I got, the only differences being the rounded corners and the pearl necklace.

How about a woodgrain button instead of a rose?

And finally, my favorite!  I messed up a card base and then found I was completely out of Crumb Cake card stock.  The solution was to switch over to a Strawberry Slush card base, which also gave me the perfect excuse to cut into a piece of 2013-2015 In Color card stock for the first time.  Ohh, how I love my Strawberry Slush!

Inside of the card:

  

And, of course, matching Very Vanilla envelopes:

I hope I remember to come back to this project and create some more cards like these.  All it would take to reproduce them would be:

Stamp sets:  Elements of Style, sentiment(s) of your choice

Card stock:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Ink:  Soft Suede

Stampin' Write markers in your choice of colors

Dress Up Framelit dies

White doilies

5/8" Flower Trim

Sponge or sponge dauber

My own additions include:  Border punch of choice, clear faceted buttons, wood grain buttons, self-adhesive pearls, corner rounder, twine

Thanks for stopping by to see these cards!  I have more eye candy for you, but will put those in a different post.

Smiles,

Joyce Spear (a.k.a. StamperJoyce)