Ribbons and Gifts

Fairly simple birthday card made using shimmery, pale yellow cardstock for the base plus a lace-edge cut out using pattern scissors. 

The 3D ribbon bow was made from shimmery red paper following origami instructions easily available online (it’s really easy, and turns out amazingly beautifully). The ribbon ‘wrapping’ the front of the card are just strips of the same paper cut and pasted on. 

The gift tag was actually a recycled clothes sizing tag, in good condition, and the flower cake is a reused pattern drawn on in fine lineart pen and coloured with red Aqualip. 

Swirl designs were added to give subtle decoration to the base card, using white (clear) Aqualip pen. 

Birthday Hearts

For mum. Letter stickers, felt flower and ribbon were bargains from Popular’s BookFest - and I broke them out for this project. :) They were nice, and saved me a whole lot of time cutting out letters from paper. 

The heart squares in the background were formerly a huge sheet of valentine’s wrapping paper that I cut out, square by square, and now stash and assemble when I need them for projects like these. 

The lace border at the bottom was cut the way I did it in the previous pink doily card (it’s going to be a staple favourite now) :D

Mum loved it. ♥