Hello and welcome! Welcome to a new challenge at Seize the Birthday! It’s always an Anything Goes challenge with an optional topping provided by our leading ladies. This time, our leading lady, Glenda, has chosen the topping as ‘Kraft & Red‘.
And here’s what I made –
I got a few new dies from Dress My Craft last year, and I thought this challenge would be perfect to play with the Mushroom dies.
The Dress My Craft Mushrooms originally has only three dies – one each for 3 mushrooms of a large, medium and small size. But I wanted my mushrooms to carry different colors. Coloring them was an option, but instead I die cut them using the kraft and red cardstocks and trimmed the base of the mushrooms from the red die cut before adhering it on top of the kraft piece. For the white spots, I just outlined the die cuts on a scrap white cardstock and fussy cut it before adhering it behind the piece. Of course, I could have adhered the white spots after die cutting them, but some of the pieces were too small for me to handle.
Once done, I switched to the frame. The frame comes from Pink Fresh Studio Ornate Rectangle Frame. I added a piece of kraft panel embossed using Spellbinders Flora embossing folder and inked the embossed part with a brown ink by swiping the ink pad on top. I then adhered the frame, fussy cut the edges and adhered it on top of the card base.
Before adhering the mushrooms on the card, I also added a few leaves from Dress My Craft Foliage & Leaves 5 dies die cut from black cardstock. I die cut the sentiment from Altenew Essential Sentiment Strips from red card stock and backed it with white cardstock before adhering it on the card.
And that finished my card! Checkout the Seize the Birthday challenge blog for more inspiration from our talented DT and from our party guests.
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Experiments With Card Making Etc 