Pootles birtthday blog-hop.

I am so pleased to be part of the Pootles birthday blog-hop.

For this Birthday Project I made  this Birthday card with Vellum Orchids
I chose to use items from various sets and bundles, to show how mix and match between sets can create even more variety. It also is an ideal card to make to use up all the small scraps laying around, and shows what an impact can be made by using up the leftovers of other projects.

YOU WILL NEED
Climbing Orchid Photo polymer orchid bundle 14534
White Embossing powder,
Soft Suede ink
Card stock is  A5 Base card Soft Sky and 2 Inch wide x 5"  Peekaboo peach and soft sky card
Designer series paper is 1 3/4 inch wide strip Bundle of Love,
For the Trellis, I used using the Die from the Eclectic Layers, thinlet dies. 143774
Branches are from Wood Textures DSP 144177
using the thinlet from the set Seasonal layers 143751

The Happy Birthday Sentiment is  one set I highly recommend as an essential to your collection, the Vertical Greetings set 141876 .



To make:

• Use Soft Sky  A5 cardstock as base card.
• Using vellum, Stamp and heat emboss orchids in white embossing powder. Use soft Suede ink and versamark embossing ink for stamens and some of the orchid petals. 

 If you are new to embossing on Vellum, then here are a few tips. Make sure your heat gun is heated up before you start, heat the vellum from behind, not the front (inked/stamped) side.
As with all heat embossing its wise to use embossing buddy on our paper/vellum first and have a fine brush ready to tidy up any stray powder on your work. I use a small make up brush

• On narrow strip of vellum, Stamp sentiment HAPPY BIRTHDAY with versamark and heat emboss with White. Roll top end UNDER using end of pencil, roll bottom OVER. This forms a long scroll.
• Die cut Orchids and stamens, trellis out of peekaboo peach,  4 branches using wood Textures DSP
• Cut 2 strips of DSP Bundle of love paper and mat 1 onto Peekaboo peach and 1 onto soft sky
• Stamp sentiment in soft suede on Soft sky card, round corners
• Assemble orchids using brads, then glue dots for stamens.
• Stick Trellis, and  first matted strip of peekaboo peach  on base card, using snail. Stick second strip using stampin dimensional over the trellis.
• Mount sentiment "happy birthday, between the two strips, using glue dots. place second sentiment below. Finally Glue branches around the two sentiments, then add orchids and leaves using glue dots.

I do hope you enjoy this card and it gives you inspiration and joy.

Thank you for looking.
Please take the time to look around at the other crafters cards and Birthday gifts etc.

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