Today’s the day for the monthly blog hop at Papertrey Ink, and I always enjoy playing along. I’ve been drawn to bright and cheerful colors recently so this inspiration piece was right up my alley.
I’m still working on the stash of birthday cards I need for April, so that was the direction I took. I also wanted to use the new star border dies which arrived a couple of days ago. I think you’ll be seeing a lot of them.
Aside from the colors, I was drawn to the polka dots on one of the gift bags in the inspiration piece so I backed my larger star with a piece of Distressed Dots patterned paper. The smaller star was die cut with a piece of paper from the Hodge Podge collection which I’ve had for years. I used the Seeing Stars dies for both. The cardstock is Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, and Harvest Gold, and the sentiment is from Simple Sentiments. All the products are PTI. Here’s a closer look at the layers on the card.
Yesterday was such a busy day. I was gone most of the day, and we celebrated Tracy’s birthday and my brother-in-law’s birthdays at Tavern 58 last night. In between I visited all the wonderful stops on Deb’s fabulous Potluck Blog Hop. If you haven’t had a chance to check these out, there are a lot of wonderful recipes to be had.
Excellent masculine card!!
This is so fresh and crisp somehow Karen I love it.
I love your stars. Such clean and happy colors too.
This is a very fun card. I love the stars and the patterns.
Excellent card, love the stars.
I can see why this inspiration piece excited you – so bright and happy! Love what you did with it.
Fun birthday card! Am eagerly awaiting my star border dies too 🙂
Absolutely beautiful!!! Love the stars and the bright colors totally make me smile!
Love the use of stars to make a cheerful bday card.
So bright and happy,Karen…..lovely card.
Such a cheery card! The orange really adds a lot of zest:)
karen, i just love all those patterned papers! it’s a good thing you are making bday cards, sounds like you really need them this time of year!
Very pretty! Your patterned paper stars really pop!
Perfect! Loved that you used the new star border!! So very pretty!
This is a very fun birthday card. Love it!
Great card. Love the star cut out and the border. Great colors too.
Great use of the star dies and the star border. The patterned papers are so colourful and fun.
Love the small die cut stars.
Rinda
YAY she’s made a card! Love what you have done, such a simple design yet applicable to so many occasions. You have picked much stronger colours than I did, and so glad you did as I can see them in combination.
Just a quick note: I will put some thoughts together about the Tim Holz class, the problem is that i don’t have many of the required elements ie inks and the learning curve is soo steep. However I have learnt a great deal that should appeal to my scientific background. Can’t wait to get the right inks to really have a go at this.
This is so lovely and fresh – I can see that that die will be A Really Useful Purchase! 🙂
Very cool card, Karen! Love the design and beautiful take on the inspiration photo! I see you have your new dies…I’m still waiting on my pti box from the last release, lol.
So pretty Karen! Lovin’ all the stars!
I just love the patterned paper showing under the big star!! What a great idea 🙂
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