Arched Birthday Greetings

I needed two birthday cards, and found two panels I had already foiled with the Pinkfresh Studio Geo Arches hot foil plate. I’ve never used the accompanying stencils before and decided on a bright and happy color combination: orange and blue. 

For the first card I made, I used almost the whole stencil, but for the second card, I cut it much smaller to layer it a bit. My husband prefers the first one, I rather like the second one. 

I used just two of the three stencils, choosing to leave one section white. On my last trip to the Paper Source, I picked up a pack of the Royal Blue cardstock which turned out to the the perfect match.

I gold embossed the sentiment from My Favorite Things in gold, and die cut it with Ellen Hutson’s Essential Rectangles twice–once in blue and once in gold for the frame.

I used the Spellbinder’s A2 Matting Basics to die cut the stenciled panel and the Royal Blue panel before layering them on the card base. 

The sentiment is a pre-made foiled sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio. 

There are three challenges for this card: The Pinkfresh World Card Making Challenge is open until October 20th, Inkspirational is looking for Stencils, and AAA Birthday for Favorite Technique. Layering stencils have risen right to the top of favorite techniques for me, and Pinkfresh has the best of them. I’m also sending this to Darnell’s NBUS site since this is the first time I’ve used these layering stencils.