A birthday card

Good morning everyone I hope your weekend is going well.

Today I have the photos of a recent 50th birthday card I made;

I covered a white square card with this pretty yellow & lilac striped paper.  I rather liked the little lilac sprays on it.  I then stamped & embossed in gold the flowers, then cut them out.  I coloured them with Promarkers to tone with the paper.  I wasn't sure how I was going to deal with putting "50" on the card as I didn't want to use peel-offs.  Years ago I bought a set of alpha dies which I haven't used for a while & couldn't remember if the set included numbers as well.  It's a great set of dies each letter, & of course there were numbers, are in 2 shapes.  One thick & one thin & you are actually meant to layer them on top of each other - which does look really good.  But on this card I used only the thin version which I placed across the large flower.  I stamped & embossed "Birthday Wishes" in gold onto a piece of purple card which I then die cut with a scallop oval.  The flowers were then arranged around the oval & gems added to the centre of the flowers.

In the pad that I took the paper from for the front of card were these plainer papers which were ideal for the inserts.  I reversed the order that I glued them into the card added another thin 50 & stamped the message.

A close up of the message.

I was very pleased with how this turned out.

That's me for now - may be back later.