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Decorative Birthday Mini Album – A Keepsake Full of Memories

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There’s something extra special about giving a handmade gift, especially when it’s designed to hold treasured memories. This decorative birthday mini album is a beautiful way to celebrate a loved one, combining photos, personal details, and thoughtful embellishments into a keepsake that can be enjoyed for years to come.

Perfect for milestone birthdays or intimate celebrations, a mini album like this tells a story—one page at a time.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creation.

Why a Mini Album Makes the Perfect Birthday Gift

Unlike a single card or wrapped present, a mini album becomes part of the celebration itself. It allows you to:

  • Share favourite photos and memories
  • Add handwritten notes, dates, or little stories
  • Create something truly personal and one-of-a-kind

Small enough to hold in your hands but packed with meaning, mini albums are a heartfelt alternative to store-bought gifts.

Design Details

For this birthday mini album, I focused on a decorative yet timeless look so it would feel special now and still be lovely to revisit in the future.

Key features include:

  • Coordinated soft and muted colour tones
  • Decorative covers with layered elements and texture
  • Space for photos and personal messages
  • Special birthday wishes and decorative panels

Each page was designed to highlight the photos while still leaving room for embellishments that add charm without overwhelming the album.

Creating the Album

This project came together step by step, starting with the album base and building up layers as I went.

The process included:

  1. Die cut the spine and create the folds for the panels
  2. Die cutting all the decorative panels in coordinating cardstock and adding them to the spine.
  3. Add two decorative panels to celebrate the special birthday and add a feminine touch with a basket of flowers
  4. Add a pretty band to hold extra photos and a label for sentiments
  5. Adding special and meaningful photos for the recipient to cherish
  6. Embellish the front with some decorative dies and add a couple of sweet butterflies
  7. Decorating each spread with embellishments and accents
  8. Finishing with small details that tie the whole album together

Working in a smaller format makes this type of project manageable while still giving plenty of creative freedom.

A Keepsake to Treasure

What I love most about projects like this is how meaningful they become once photos and memories are added. This mini album isn’t just a birthday gift—it’s a keepsake that captures moments, milestones, and emotions in a tangible way.

Whether displayed on a shelf or pulled out to flip through on special occasions, it’s a reminder that the best gifts are often the ones made with time, care, and love.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope this birthday mini album inspires you to create your own memory-filled keepsakes—perfect for birthdays, celebrations, and everything in between 💕

Becca Feeken from Amazing Paper Grace has made a video here on how to construct this mini album:

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I’d love to know — do you enjoy making mini albums as gifts?

And don’t forget to pin this project for later inspiration — you’ll definitely want to revisit it when you want to make your own mini album.

✂️ Supplies I Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

S4-1033 Border and Side Pockets

S4-1220 Summer Label Motif

S4-1029 Flower Basket

S5-408 Grand Vaulted Cabinet

S4-1031- Decorative Edges and Spine

S5-455 Birthday Wishes Vignette

Other Products Used:

House of Paper Cardstock – Latte

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Alabaster, Rainforest, Black Onyx

Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Bellini

Gina K Designs Cardstock – Barely There, Chocolate Truffle

Bearly Art Glue

Small iridescent gems from stash

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Elegant Blue & White Birthday Card Design

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💙✨Blue and white never looked this elegant 💙✨

A blue and white decorative lacy birthday card with accents of silver featuring pretty lemon and white daisies with soft green leaves is always a classic and timeless look. Add an elegant “Happy Birthday” die in the center surrounded by a soft pastel background and gentle shadows for depth completes the overall aesthetic which is refined, feminine, and sophisticated.

Create elegant backgrounds to your cards with just three dies. Use one die for the background by trimming the dies in half to create the corners for the base. Add the remaining trimmed dies to the second layer and with some pretty accents with a medallion die and then add the third layer with a statement die that highlights the birthday sentiment. Amazing Paper Grace dies work so well together to create an infinite range of designs.

And we must not forget the layered daisy flowers that add the feminine touch! These daisies are incredibly easy to create quickly and can be coloured so many different combinations to suit all designs.

And of course any card made using Amazing Paper Grace dies has to have pearls to complete the card.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

S4-1193 Layered Daisies Etched Dies

S5-479 Daisy Delight Garden Shutters A2 Card Base Etched Dies

S6-183 Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters 5×7 Card Base Etched Dies

S4-1164 A2 Filigree Marquis Etched Dies

S5-415 Ornamental Valance Etched Dies

S4-991 Brillante Rondelle Etched Dies

S5-440 Celebration Scene Etched Dies

S4-982 Cinch and Go IV Flowers Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 110 Ib cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest Solar White – 80 Ib cardstock

Spellbinders Colorwheel Cardstock – Rainforest, Breeze,

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Spellbinders Treasured Cardstock – Silver

Pearls

Foam tape, squares

Bearly Art Glue

Prills – Lemon Chiffon

Altenew Fresh Dye Inks – Oolong Tea, Matcha Tea

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Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Wishes

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Welcome back and today I have a beautiful, sweet and elegant birthday card made for a special person. I have made a shaped card using the Amazing Paper Grace 3D Vignette Mini Album Collection Etched Dies by Becca Feeken. I have also added other elements from the Amazing Paper Grace – Heart Felt Sentiment, Die of the Month August 2022 – Peekaboo Trellis Panels and the Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters 5×7 Card Base to embellish the card. And I have used soft pink, cream, white with a touch of gold accents for a very sweet, romantic and elegant card and the recipient loved the card.

Becca has done a video on how to create the interactive element using the Amazing Paper Grace Interactive Pivot Banner Etched Dies here: https://youtu.be/AMmUn1SxksI?si=VPKv1w4e5X0euV_o. Plus you can see how the shaped card is made by die cutting the base using the shadow die from the Amazing Paper Grace Grand Vaulted Cabinet Etched Dies right along the edge of some folded card.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

S4-1029 Grateful Thankful Blessed Layering Dies

S4-1032 Interactive Pivot Banner Etched Dies

S5-408 Grand Vaulted Cabinet Etched Dies

GLP-219 Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Die of the Month August 2022 – Peekaboo Trellis Panels Etched Dies

S6-183 Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters 5×7 Card Base Etched Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Barely Peach, Snowdrift, Onyx

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Ballet Slippers

Hammermill Cardstock – White

Lawn Fawn Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Gold

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Foam Strips

Pearls from my stash

Bearly Art Glue

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

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Happy Birthday with Pink Fresh Studio

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I enjoy colouring with alcohol markers but sometimes it is good to use stencils to colour my images as it makes it quick and easy to make a card. When I first got this Pink Fresh Studio Nothing But The Best Stamp & Die Set I wondered how it would look with a die cut edge when I saw a video that Bibi Cameron did on YouTube here using acetate to make a die cut edge be more stable. So I used the same concept but just did it a little differently and I was very happy with how it turned out. I added an extra layer of the die cut edge on top as well as another layer of the flowers to add some dimension to the card.

I also had some fun with embossing the Plaid Press Plate. using my Platinum machine and the lovely soft finish to the embossed edge came from a happy accident. I had tried inking the plate before embossing but it did not work out well and thought I had cleaned the plate but it wasn’t and it came out with this lovely soft aqua colour and it just worked so well with the colours I had used in the flowers. Especially as I had used an aqua colour (Turquoise) to ink the images first and also with the sentiment. I added a 1 1/2″ x 5 3/8″ strip to the bottom of the inside back to be able to show up the flowers better.

I struggle with leaving a lot of white space and as I had some of the plaid embossed card left I added a small strip and another coordinating plain aqua strip to the top of the card to cover the lacy edge from the Pink Fresh Studio Lacey Edgers 1 Dies.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Lacey Edgers 1 Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Nothing But The Best Stamp & Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio. Delighted For You Stamp and Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Glacier

Acetate

Pink Fresh StudioInks – Turquoise (sentiment), Lemon Whip, Sparkling Rose, Mimosa, Waterfall, Slumber

House of Cards Cardstock – White 300 gsm

White card 80 Ib from my stash

Creative Expressions Foundation Card – Spearmint Green (?)

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Amazing Paper Grace Lattice Quadrante

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Today my card combines two of my favourite methods of cardmaking – die cutting and flower making using Amazing Paper Grace dies. I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Die of the Month September 2020 Lattice Quadrante as the base for pretty flowers and an elegant sentiment and finished with some gorgeous butterflies. I love how easy it is to create beautiful, elegant and classic cards with Amazing Paper Grace dies.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

For my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base out of white cardstock. I have then layered gold, white and pale blue cardstock to the front of the card. I cut a piece of white cardstock slightly smaller than the blue panel and die cut the top right and bottom left using the decorative insert corner inserts from the Amazing Paper Grace Lattice Quadrante dies. I then die cut four more stand alone corner dies using both the decorative inserts and the edge dies – two from blue cardstock and two from gold cardstock. I adhered the gold corners under the blue corners slightly offsetting the gold to allow a peak of gold. I then adhered the corners over the previously cut corners before adding this panel to the front of the card.

I die cut the leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Cinch and Go III dies out of green cardstock and adhered them over the bottom left corner lattice. I die cut, coloured and shaped the flowers from the same die set, assembled them and added them over the leaves. I die cut small filler flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Petite Floral Potpourri dies and coloured them in yellow and blue inks, I shaped them and added wire stamens through the centres of the flowers, trimmed the wires and added them to around the larger pink flowers. To finish the bouquet I added some gold leaves from the Amazing Paper Grace Pinkaboo Trellis Dies.

I die cut three ‘With Love’ sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace With With Love Regalia Card Builder Dies – two from pale blue cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These dies were stacked together with the gold die on top and then added to the top right lattice corner as shown.

I stamped the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Lyrical Layered Florals Stamp and Die Set in embossing ink and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. This was then die cut with the coordinating die and I also die cut a plain die and added the embossed sentiment on top. I added this over the die cut sentiment using some foam squares.

To finish the cards I made two butterflies from the Amazing Paper Grace Summer Label Motif Dies out of vellum and accented with gold bodies. These were added around the sentiment as shown.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Lattice Quadrante

Petite Floral Potpourri Dies

Cinch and Go Flowers III Dies

Summer Label Motif Dies

With Love Regalia Card Builder Dies

Lyrical Layered Florals Stamp and Die Set

Pinkaboo Trellis Dies

Other Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Glacier

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Pastel Green

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Heartfelt Creations White Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sky Blue, Lemon Whip, Cherry Blosssom

Distress Oxide inks – Squeezed Lemonade, Kitsch Flamingo

Blending Brushes

Wow Embossing ink

Ranger Fine Line Gold Embossing Powder

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Dress My Craft Wire Pollens – Yellow, White

Foam squares

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A Masculine Card for BMW Lovers

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Today I have a masculine card that is perfect for those who love BMW cars. I was asked to do a BMW themed card for my husband’s colleague and I ended up making two cards for her to choose from with a BMW theme and this was one of the cards. I have used the BMW colours Black, Blue and White (although the blue is not exact) to create this card and the Heartfelt Creations French Courtyard Dies was perfect to frame an approximation of the BMW Logo. I added some more shine and sophistication to the card with a silver hot foiled sentiment from Spellbinders and I also added a sentiment to the inside of the card to make this an extra special card. The BMW logo has been made using a combination of the Heartfelt Creations Basic Circle Dies – Large and Small and the Heartfelt Creations Letters and Numbers Dies and I was very happy with how it turned out. This card is really quite dramatic and perfect for anyone men or women who are into this brand of car.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations French Courtyard Dies

Heartfelt Creations Stairway Gardens Die

Heartfelt Creations Letters and Numbers Dies

Heartfelt Creations Basic Circles Dies – Small

Heartfelt Creations Basics Circles Dies – Large

Heartfelt Creations All Occasions Sentiments Cling Stamp Set

Spellbinders Be Bold Glimmer Sentiments

Spellbinders Foil – Silver

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations White Cardstock

Creative Expressions Foundation Cardstock – Blue Dusk

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tape

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Sea Breeze Happy Birthday Card

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Today I am sharing a card I made for my brother-in-law for his birthday. He is a keen sailor and loves the ocean so I made a special card for him using a combination of Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze and Honey Bee Stamps Lovely Layers dies. The Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Cling stamp and coordinating die set is one I use a lot and here I have created an ornate window frame looking out onto a seascape with a light house and finished it with dogwood flowers and a cute bird.

My Project

I have made a side folding 5″ x 7″ base card out of white cardstock. I then layered gold and light green paper on the front.

I stamped the light house image from the Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze Harbour cling stamp set on X-Press It card and coloured it with Copic markers. I stamped a plain image of Magic Masking Paper and trimmed it to cover the image I had coloured. I then ink blended some sky in the background using the Waffle Flower Cloud Stencil and ink blended the sea with pale yellow and blue inks. I then die cut it out with the plain window die from the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Frame cling stamp set and adhered it to the front of the card.

I then stamped the window frame image twice from the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Frame Cling stamp on gold cardstock and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I die cut one full frame including the window panes and the window, and one ornate heading from these images. I glued the window to some acetate and then trimmed to fit the window. I added the outside decorative frame to the front of the coloured image with foam tape and then added the window inside the frame.

I die cut the bird from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts using grey, black and white colours to represent seagulls and added it to the top right of the window frame. I then die cut the dogwood flowers from the Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood Honey Cuts and assembled them and added them to the bottom left of the window frame.

To finish I stamped the sentiment from the Honey Bee Stamps Mini Sentiments Stamp set in Jet Black ink on white cardstock and die cut it with the coordinating die. This was added to the window frame as shown.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations Ornate Window Frame Cling Stamp and coordinating die

Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze Harbour Cling Stamp set

Heartfelt Creations Snowy Pine Paper Collection

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Spring Birds Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps: Lovely Layers – Dogwood Honey Cuts

Honey Bee Stamps Mini Sentiments Stamp set and coordinating die set

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Rainforest, Chamomile

Concord & 9th Cardstock – White, Black Onyx, Cobblestone, Nutmeg

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sky Blue, Summer Shower, Lemon Whip, Grassy Knoll

Waffle Flower Cloud Stencil

Gina K Masking Magic Paper

Copic Markers

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Strips

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Happy Birthday Sunshine

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I have been going through my considerable stash of dies that I have and I decided it was time to start using them in my cards. I have also been going through my cardstock stash and discovered some very pretty cardstock that I have forgotten about. Once again my card has been inspired by one that Becca Feeken has done but I have put my own twist in it by using slightly different dies and cardstock. I love the bright and summery colours I have used and that this card can be mailed easily as it is flat.

My project

I have created a top folding 6″ x 6″ base card out of heavy pearlescent cardstock. I then layered yellow and pearlescent cardstock to create the base for the decorative dies. I die cut layers out of pearlescent and yellow cardstock using the dies from the A2 Scalloped Borders One Dies from Spellbinders. I have slightly decreased the size of the top two layers to create some interest.

I die cut a large and medium label from the Amazing Paper Grace Francesca Labels – the larger label from yellow cardstock and the smaller from pearlescent card stock and these were added to the top of the card. I then die cut the band using the die from the Spellbinders Romantic Agenda set out of pearlescent card stock and then added some yellow cardstock behind it. I die cut two small ovals from the Spellbinders Floral Ovals die – one from pearlescent cardstock and one from yellow. I removed the little stars from the pearlescent oval and added the yellow oval behind so the yellow stars would show. I then added this oval behind the embossed oval on the band. This was then added to the card over the base of the labels as shown.

I reverse hot foiled the sentiment from the Spellbinders Be Bold Glimmer Sentiment in gold and die cut with the coordinating die. I die cut two extra plain dies and stacked them together with the foiled sentiment on top. This was added to the top of the card as shown.

I die cut flowers and leaves from the Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms from blue, yellow and green cardstock. I die cut the leaf accents out of gold cardstock and then added the flowers and leaves to the top left of the card and peeking out of the bottom right of the band.

I die cut two butterflies from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies out of pearlescent, yellow and gold cardstock, assembled them and adhered them to the card as shown.

To finish I added pearls to the centre of the band, around the sentiment and the top corners.

Products Used:

Amazing Paper Grace Francesca Labels

Spellbinders Be Bold Glimmer Sentiments

Spellbinders Floral Oval

Spellbinders Romantic Agenda

Spellbinders A2 Scalloped Borders One

Crafters Companion Centura Pearl – Yellow, Snow White

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Bearly Art Glue

Fun Stampers Journey Pearls

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An English Country Garden

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Today I have a very special card to share with you. I was asked to make a very special birthday card for a very special Grandma who is about to turn an incredible 94 years old and she lived in England. The brief was for roses and alstroemeria flowers as these were her favourite flowers and I thought that I would do a English country cottage scene with different flowers, a lovely seat to sit on and admire the garden and some sweet birdies to fill the air with song. The Heartfelt Creations Gateway Fold cards were perfect for this occasion. I have used many different products from Heartfelt Creations and as I did not have a lot of time I die cut the images from the paper collection rather than colouring them. I am so happy how this turned out and Olya if you are reading this I really really enjoyed making this. Thank you so much for asking me to make this card and I hope your Grandma really loves and cherishes this very special card/gift that has come from the heart from New Zealand.

Scroll past the photos for a full list of the products that I have used in this card. I will also have a video tutorial on my YouTube channel showing you how I have made these roses coming soon.

Products Used:

Heartfelt Creations 5″ x 7″ Gateway Fold Card

Lattice Flourish Gateway Die

Heartfelt Sentiment Stamp set

Eyelet Frame Gateway Die

Tear Drop Lattice Gateway Die – outer frame die

Cut Mat Create 1B die – sentiment

Spellbinders Victorian Numbers die

Cottage Tree’scapes – leaves and floral spray

Countryside Cottage Paper Collection

Hollyhock Stem and Bloom Dies

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Wishing Well Oasis stamp and die – chair

Hollyhock Fence – hollyhock

Floral Fashionista dies – small flowers

Rustic Sunflower Bucket Die – bucket

Rustic Sunflower Paper Collection

Clematis Birdhouse and Trellis Dies- birds

Climbing Clematis Paper Collection

Classic Rose dies

Sweet Pea dies – alstromeria

Garden Lily Die- alstromeria

Leafy Accents Dies

Countryside Cottage Collection – pot plants – fussy cut (Cottage Summer’scapes

Hollyhock Garden Paper Collection

Ranger archival inks – Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green, Olive, Rosey Posey, Magenta Hue, Sunflower

Artline black pen

Petite Pollen Stamens – medium

Wow embossing ink

Ranger gold embossing powder

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – pink, yellow

Foam tape

Bearly Art Glue

Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Luxe Gold cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flower Shaping Paper

Copic markers – C7, C5, C3, C1

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Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Birthday Card

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I love lacy dies and these Amazing Paper Grace Romantic Slimline Borders Dies are just stunning to add some pretty edges and decorative backgrounds to add some flowers and a butterfly. These border dies can be used in so many ways and today I have done a 4 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ card. I had some flowers left over from a previous project so this card was so quick and easy to put together. You can see the other card card here and on that post there is a link to a video tutorial on how I have made these flowers on YouTube.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

To make my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I then cut a piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5 1/4″ and scored at 1/8″ intervals down the long side of the card and then adhered it to the front of the card.

I cut the following pieces of card:

Blue card – 4 1/2″ x 4″

White card – 3″ x 4″

Pink card – 2″ x 4″

I die cut each end of the blue card with the ‘broderie anglais’ edge and stitch edge dies, the white card with the scallop and stitched dies and the pink card with the lacy decorative edge dies. I then layered the pink strip to the white strip to the blue strip and adhered them to the front of the embossed layer on the front of the card.

I cut a strip of white card 7/8″ x 4″ and embossed a line at 1/8″ along each long side to add some interest to this panel. I then stamped the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Lyrical Layers Floral Stamp Set in Jet Black ink to the right side of the strip. This was then added to the centre of the pink lacy edged strip.

The flowers were made using the Amazing Paper Grace Primrose Heart Facade Dies. I have ink blended pink and yellow inks on white cardstock before die cutting the flowers out and assembling them. I have also used the same flowers on another card that you can see here. The small sprays are from the Amazing Paper Grace October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies and have been die cut out of yellow and green cardstock. I added some gold pearls to the centres of the open flowers.

To finish the card I added a blue, white and gold butterfly from the Amazing Paper Grace Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Romantic Slimline Borders Dies

Primrose Heart Facade Dies

October 2021 Die of the Month Flourished Fleurit Dies

Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutters Dies

Lyrical Layers Floral Stamp Set

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Rainforest, Glacier, Beeswax, Chamomile, OnyxBee

Concord & 9th Cardstock – Ballet Slippers

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Ranger Archival ink – Ranger Black

Distress Oxide inks – Squeezed Lemonade, Kitsch Flamingo, Saltwater Taffy,

Bearly Art Glue

Scoreboard

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

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