Materials…

• White square card blank
• BasicGrey Mellow patterned papers
• Thin corrugated cardboard
• Brown ink
• Tree stamp
• Brown ribbon
• Small piece of white cardstock
• ‘Happy Birthday’ stamp
• Brown cardstock
• Orange embroidery floss

To create…

1 Mount brown cardstock just within the white card blank itself.  Mount a smaller piece of the tree-patterned paper from the BasicGrey collection within the brown cardstock area.

2 Cut some thin corrugated cardboard to fit within one half of the tree paper, ripping the thin covering off to reveal the texture.

3 Ink the tree stamp in brown on a small piece of white card, inking the edges in brown.

4 Before you fix the stamped image, wrap a length of brown ribbon around the front of the card and tie a bow. Fix the stamped image on top using 3D foam tape.

5 Stamp a ‘happy birthday’ greeting on a small piece of white cardstock and trim it to look like a tag. Mount onto plain green patterned paper and secure a small knot onto the tag shape using orange embroidery floss. Fix to the bottom-right of the tree image.

Project by Kirsty Wiseman. Originally published in Creative Cardmaking issue 7.