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Cupcake Birthday Card

Cupcake Birthday Card

Designed by Ivanka Lentle
With a sprinkling of colorful daisies and narrow streamers laced with confetti-like dots, this little cupcake card sends the sweetest of greetings.
 
Materials
Bazzill Dotted Swiss Cardstock in Salt
Fancy Pants Design Delight Collection double-sided patterned paper in
   Bunches and Thoughtful
EK Success Martha Stewart
   Cupcake Sticker
   Bakers Twine in blue
Hero Arts Stamp – Birthday Definition
Clearsnap ColorBox Ink pad in Pistachio and Sapphire Silk
Spellbinders Nestabilities Die in Label One
Ellison Sizzix BIGKick Machine
Provo Craft Cuttlebug
   Embossing Machine
   Embossing Folder in Gratitude
Foam dots
Double-sided adhesive
Scissors, ruler, pencil, sandpaper
Instructions
  1. Cut one 5½" x 11" rectangle (large) and one 3¼" square (small) from Salt cardstock; one 2⅝" x 5⅛" rectangle (large) from floral side of Bunches patterned paper; one 1¾" x 2½" rectangle (small) and one 3" square from green side of Bunches patterned paper; and one 2½" x 3⅜" rectangle from striped side of Thoughtful patterned paper. Turn Salt cardstock rectangle horizontally, score a vertical line down the center, and fold in half.
  2. Arrange Bunches and Thoughtful rectangles equally spaced from one another on all sides onto card front, referring to project photo for placement. Once pleased with the arrangement, adhere into place.
  3. Use the Embossing Machine and Gratitude Embossing Folder to emboss the flowers onto Bunches square. Use sandpaper to lightly distress the surface, then center and adhere onto small Salt rectangle.
  4. Use the BIGKick Machine to cut one 2½" decorative square Nestabilities Label from Salt cardstock. Use Sapphire Silk ink pad and Birthday Definition stamp to stamp sentiment onto Label and to antique around outside edges of Label. Use Pistachio ink pad to antique around outside edges of both Bunches and Thoughtful rectangles.
  5. Center and adhere Cupcake Sticker onto stamped Salt Label and center and adhere assembled Label onto embossed Bunches square. Cut one 34" length from Bakers Twine and wrap around bottom portion of matted Label approximately four times, tying ends into a bow on the right side. With fold at the top, center and adhere assembled small Salt square onto card front.