Happy Birthday

I made this CAS birthday card for a few challenges - the idea seemed quite simple but it actually took a lot longer than I had anticipated to die cut the strip and get the stitching all around the edge of the strip.  On a more positive note, it did use up a lot of snippets from my box!

To start I die cut the sentiment from white hammer card and set it aside.  I attached a snippet of very dark green floral paper to thin white card and using a rectangle die I die cut a strip placing the dies so I had stitching on the short edges as well as the stitching along the long edges.  I did this by running the strip through my Cuttlebug four times - the first pass cut the short edge and half way down one long edge, the second cut the rest of the long edge and the other short edge, then lined it up again twice to die cut the other long edge - as I said, it took longer than I had anticipated!  I then die cut the sentiment from the right side and attached the strip along the lower edge of the card before inlaying the sentiment.  I punched a large and small daisy from white hammer card and attached them to the left of the sentiment and added an upcycled yellow gem for the flower centre..

To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white hammer card blank
     My Favourite Things  'Inside & Out Stitched Rectangle STAX Die-namics' and Creative Expressions 'Mini Happy Birthday' dies
     Woodware 'Large Daisy' and 'Regular Daisy' punches
     Small hole punch
     Snippets of white hammer card, thin white matt card and Lili of the Valley 'Enchantment' paper
     Small yellow sparkly gem (upcycled from a birthday card)

I am entering the following challenges:
     AAA Cards - Up to One Third + Inlaid Die
     Perfectly CAS - Flowers
     Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge 361
     Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

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Kath x