I started by stamping the image in black ink on to white card stock. I colored him with my Spectrum Noir markers, and then die cut him with a large circle. I die cut a scalloped circle in turquoise as the mat.
Next I shifted gears to the card base, which was a folded 5.5 card in saffron yellow. I prepped the next two layers of the 5" square flowered designer paper matted on a 5.25" square of pumpkin card stock.
I then ran ribbon through two slot-punched openings in the circle. I used saffron grosgrain and rust colored rick rack from my stash. A friend who sews gave me a bunch of leftover pieces of rickrack and it is fun working them in to designs. After adhering dimensionals behind the circle, I taped the ends of the ribbon to the back of the pumpkin layer. Finally this was all adhered to the base folded card with glue dots.
Final touches were an oval punched greeting accented by a turquoise flower and pumpkiny-orange brad. (Tip on the greeting: I stamped it regular size, then scanned it and shrunk in in Word to better fit in to my small oval punch.) The greeting itself is from the Birthday Wishes set.
Even though it is floral, I think the colors make it perfect for a cheery autumn birthday card. Hope you enjoyed it!
That turned out very cute.
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