Sending Smiles Birthday Card With ON SALE ITEMS!

Today’s card is full of great items from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog (items that are right now ON SALE!). And it’s a birthday card! I need lots of birthday cards, what about you?

This card is made with white on white. The key to using lots of white – or any single color – is to change up the layers with texture. Here one layer is splattered and another layer is dry embossed, and this adds so much texture! The colors for today’s card are based on this week’s Color Challenge at Global Design Project:

These colors are different and yet when I was putting them together I saw how beautiful they are! If you are looking for the Balmy Blue color, it’s on the pearls! I colored the pearls with a Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blend Alcohol Marker. The circle die is from the Painted Label Dies. It was cut from a piece of Shimmery White cardstock that I watercolored with Pumpkin Pie ink and a Water Painter .

For the navy ribbon and bow, I colored White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon with a Night of Navy Stampin’ Blend (lay the ribbon on a Silicone Mat while you do the coloring). After tying it in a bow, I added some Baker’s Twine, also tied in a bow. The sentiment is from the Sending Smiles Stamp Set, stamped with Night of Navy ink and trimmed in two pieces,