Stampin’ Up! Simply Said Masculine Birthday Card

Good Morning! The Country Woods designer series paper has several different wood grain designs that are great for adding a rustic touch to your projects. I’ve used a few of the patterns to make a simple layered masculine birthday card and paired it with the Stampin’ Up! Simply Said sentiment stamp set. You can find the card stock cuts along with supplies at the bottom of my post.

Adhere a Misty Moonlight panel of Country Woods DSP to the front of a Crumb cake card base. Adhere two more panels of the DSP to Early Espresso mats and adhere them to the card front with liquid glue. This gives you a fairly flat card that can easily be mailed.

Stamp the birthday sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Simply Said stamp set using Versamark ink on another panel of Country Woods DSP. Since I wanted the sentiment to be short and wide and the stamp is long and skinny, I had to do something different.

• Ink up the ‘happy’ and stamp it
• Sprinkle it with white embossing powder and shake off the excess so you can see it
• Clean off the stamp and ink up the ‘birthday’ and stamp it under the ‘happy’
• Sprinkle the ‘birthday’ with white embossing powder and shake off the excess
• Heat set the whole sentiment until the powder is bright and shiny

Adhere the stamped DSP to the left side of an Early espresso mat and tear the right edge to make it more rustic. Wrap the right side with Crumb Cake baker’s twine and tie a knot. Adhere the sentiment to the card with dimensionals and finish with a Crumb Cake dot.

Adhere another Misty Moonlight pannel of the country Woods designer series paper to the inside of the card. Stamp the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Simply Said stamp set using early Espresso ink on a Basic White panel. Adhere the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

Layering designer series paper on cards is easy when you use coordinating papers from the same designer series paper pack. And there are so many different card sketch ideas on the internet, Pinterest and even the Stampin’ Up! Catalogs to help you find the right layout.

Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Stamping!!

Akiko

Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Crumb Cake – 5-1/2″ – 8-1/2″ card base, scored at 4-1/4″
• Early Espresso – 2-1/8″ x 4-1/8″ (DSP mat), 1-5/8″ x 2-7/8″ (DSP mat), 1″ x 3″ (label mat)
• Basic White – 3″ x 4-1/2″ (inside panel)
• Country Woods DSP – two 3-3/4″ x 5″ panels (front background and inside mat), 2″ x 4″ (vertical panel), 1-1/2″ x 2-3/4″ (horizontal panel), 7/8″ x 2″ (label)

Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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